Bordeaux: The Definitive Guide for the Wines Produced Since 1961.

PARKER, Robert M.; Drawings by Christopher Wormell.

$975.00

Item Number: 147055

New York: Simon & Schuster, 1985.

First edition of Robert M. Parker’s first book and definitive classic in the field. Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, warmly inscribed by the author on the half-title page, “To Don To a truly great connoisseur In vino veritas Robert M. Parker.” Very good in a very good dust jacket. Jacket design by Koppel and Scher. Jacket illustrations by Christopher Wormell.

Robert M. Parker Jr. is a leading wine critic with an international influence. His wine ratings on a 100-point scale and his newsletter The Wine Advocate, with his particular stylistic preferences and notetaking vocabulary, have become influential in American wine buying and are a major factor in setting the prices for newly released Bordeaux wines. He is widely acknowledged to be the most widely known and influential wine critic in the world today.