Comments on: Details surface on buyer of Wine Advocate stake

By: Robert Parker Makes Pivot to Asia -- this is business, not retirement

Robert Parker Makes Pivot to Asia -- this is business, not retirement — Sat, 29 Dec 2012 18:43:09 +0000

[...] Details emerge here, courtesy of Decanter via Dr. [...]

By: Wino

Wino — Tue, 25 Dec 2012 17:23:41 +0000

Parker’s shuck and jive is so sloppy. He’s evasive, his writers respond with straight boilerplate, he contradicts himself at almost every turn, his new partners and editor contradict him…any wonder why he hasn’t engendered trust? And then he bitches about people questioning him? What a doofus.

By: IanS

IanS — Mon, 17 Dec 2012 20:24:20 +0000

Easy enough to read between the lines… ‘still a very important owner’ = minority shareholder.

By: Dr. Vino

Dr. Vino — Sun, 16 Dec 2012 20:29:19 +0000

I just checked the LinkedIn page I referenced in the post and, surprisingly, it has vaporized. It wasn’t as active as Soo Hoo’s now-defunct Facebook page; here’s a screenshot nonetheless.

By: Dr. Vino

Dr. Vino — Sun, 16 Dec 2012 20:28:12 +0000

Hi Jack – Thanks for stopping by with that update from eBob. Yes, that is a funny turn of phrase. Perhaps he is underscoring that he is still an owner and that he didn’t sell a 100% stake?

Weston – if I interpret you correctly, you are advocating a live and let live approach. That’s fine by me–I wish Parker and the new stakeholders well. I just don’t understand why the rollout of the announcement exhibited so little coordination since the transaction had been apparently been months in the making.

By: Weston

Weston — Sun, 16 Dec 2012 04:46:18 +0000

We’ve been bashing Parker for how long especially in the Wine nerd commmunity? and yet he continues on, doing what he does because well he does what he doesn, I mean us nerds will drink our Jura Sparkling while he drinks his [what Champagne does he like?] and he’ll be find, and well I think we will be find and yet bitch? at the end of the day there are people who will connect with him and ones who do not.

Whatever, wine is my glass empty…wait why is my bottle empty…DAMNIT!

By: Jack Bulkin

Jack Bulkin — Sun, 16 Dec 2012 00:12:40 +0000

Tyler, Confucius say don’t trust man who take from swamp ground and give 99 Points.
Mr. Parker stated on his Board yesterday as follows”
someone else said it best….at the end of the day…it is always about QUALITY…and THE WINES…..all the other nonsense is usually white noise…deliver the best and most independent information in the world on a consistent basis, and you could live in Borneo or Yemen and be a success….well maybe less so in Yemen…but it begins and ends with QUALITY….having a SECOND office in one of the most dynamic cities and markets in the world-Singapore, is extra special…building on a very strong USA market with additional attention to Asia is just smart business…I started going to ASIA in 1998…every year 2-3 weeks…worked my ass off over there like I do in Europe and here…the entire thing makes great business sense…and did I say…I am still a very important owner, CEO and Chairman of the Board…we are going to rock the world…”

I am still a very important owner??? WTF does that mean? CEO and Chairman I can understand. It really doesn’t matter to me anymore since he and his palate have become totally useless and unreliable to me but this should be fun to watch as it unravels.