Wine Advocate News

[Arv_R]

The best part of this will be when William starts talking up Rolland’s wines and Alfert realizes that everyone has betrayed him.

[Howard_Cooper]

News from Wine Advocate - congrats to William Kelley on the promotion!

Dear Reader,

As someone who counts the first paperback edition of Parker’s Wine Buyer’s Guide among the first wine books I purchased—alongside Tom Stevenson’s Sotheby’s World Wine Encyclopedia and Hugh Johnson’s Pocket Encyclopedia of Wine—it’s with a great sense of privilege and responsibility that I write today as the incoming Editor-in-Chief of Robert Parker Wine Advocate.

For this opportunity, I owe a great deal to Bob himself, who recognized more than two decades ago that the wine world had grown too large for any single person to be an expert in everything, and to my immediate predecessor, Lisa Perrotti-Brown, MW, who recruited me as managing editor nearly five years ago. Both of them were incredibly supportive of my efforts during their time here, and their regular counsel and steady hands will be missed.

Looking ahead, aside from Lisa’s departure, we’ve retained our entire cast of expert reviewers and are actively seeking to add at least one more member to the team. William Kelley, DPhil, has been promoted to Deputy Editor and will take over reviewing responsibilities for Bordeaux, in addition to Burgundy and Champagne. William has been a passionate follower of Bordeaux since his student days at Oxford, with extensive exposure to the great wines of the 1940s, 1950s and 1960s. Now based in France, he’s ideally situated to provide readers with the same boots-on-the-ground coverage of Bordeaux as he’s been delivering on Burgundy since 2017.

I’ll be following a path blazed by Bob for decades, regularly traveling to Napa to review the wines that originally captured my heart. Some of my most formative wine experiences revolve around Napa Valley: my first wine-region vacation in 1990, the first long-form article I penned as a professional wine writer and two invitations—once as a speaker—to the Symposium for Professional Wine Writers.

While I’m looking forward to returning to those roots and rediscovering all that Napa has to offer, I’ll be adding Napa to my already over-filled plate, so you can expect to see some tweaking of tasting responsibilities when we hire a new reviewer. What exactly those will be will depend on who we recruit.

In addition to adding another reviewer, with the extensive backing of the Michelin Group now behind us, in the near term, we expect to revamp our website, develop additional video content and relaunch in-person tasting events when and where public health conditions allow.

William and I are excited to be leading a team of wine critics that’s committed to building on Robert Parker’s legacy as the ultimate consumers’ guide to wine. To truly fulfill that mission, we’d love to hear from you. Our marketing team recently sent out a survey so that we can get a better idea of what exactly you want—if you haven’t already done so, please take the five minutes or less it takes to fill out this survey and press the submit button.

Regardless of these changes and any others that result from your feedback, we know that you value our team’s expertise and independence, and those priorities—the bedrock of Robert Parker’s publication—won’t change. You’ll be able to continue to depend on our reviewers to call things as they see them, giving you the information you need to make your own wine-buying decisions.

Cheers,
Joe Czerwinski

Did you get this by email? Even though I am a subscriber, I received neither this email or one about a survey???

[Howard_Cooper]

LPB is out? what is she doing next? seems silent on that

A cookbook on recipes for Black Forest Cake???

[Brady_Daniels]

Congrats William! This tempts me to subscribe.

I’ll third the motion for CellarTracker integration, something we requested many years ago on the Squires board. I promise to sign up for a year if you do it!

Also, please keep posting here! Surely you can share that intention now?

[Neal.Mollen]

A few thoughts from me here:

William Kelley on Instagram: "Exciting news! I’m taking over reviewing Bordeaux for The Wine Advocate. It’s a big project and I couldn’t be more excited."

Just seeing this fantastic news! Bordeaux, Champagne and Burgundy – that’s quite a workload, young man! No one more capable to do it though.

With William now lord of all he surveys, and LPB gone, things at the TWA are looking up! Congratulations my friend!

[Guillermo_M]

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Cheers,
Joe Czerwinski

Did you get this by email? Even though I am a subscriber, I received neither this email or one about a survey???

I got it.

From do-not-reply@robertparker.com

Today at 12:16PM Eastern, with the subject line The More Things Change… / Plus ça Change…

The link for the survey is in this email as well (bolded where it mentions the survey).

[Karen_Troisi]

Congrats to both Joe and William. Well deserved recognition!

[Peter_Chiu]

Congrats to William…well earned respect.

[Steve_Gautier]

News from Wine Advocate - congrats to William Kelley on the promotion!

Dear Reader,

As someone who counts the first paperback edition of Parker’s Wine Buyer’s Guide among the first wine books I purchased—alongside Tom Stevenson’s Sotheby’s World Wine Encyclopedia and Hugh Johnson’s Pocket Encyclopedia of Wine—it’s with a great sense of privilege and responsibility that I write today as the incoming Editor-in-Chief of Robert Parker Wine Advocate.

For this opportunity, I owe a great deal to Bob himself, who recognized more than two decades ago that the wine world had grown too large for any single person to be an expert in everything, and to my immediate predecessor, Lisa Perrotti-Brown, MW, who recruited me as managing editor nearly five years ago. Both of them were incredibly supportive of my efforts during their time here, and their regular counsel and steady hands will be missed.

Looking ahead, aside from Lisa’s departure, we’ve retained our entire cast of expert reviewers and are actively seeking to add at least one more member to the team. William Kelley, DPhil, has been promoted to Deputy Editor and will take over reviewing responsibilities for Bordeaux, in addition to Burgundy and Champagne. William has been a passionate follower of Bordeaux since his student days at Oxford, with extensive exposure to the great wines of the 1940s, 1950s and 1960s. Now based in France, he’s ideally situated to provide readers with the same boots-on-the-ground coverage of Bordeaux as he’s been delivering on Burgundy since 2017.

I’ll be following a path blazed by Bob for decades, regularly traveling to Napa to review the wines that originally captured my heart. Some of my most formative wine experiences revolve around Napa Valley: my first wine-region vacation in 1990, the first long-form article I penned as a professional wine writer and two invitations—once as a speaker—to the Symposium for Professional Wine Writers.

While I’m looking forward to returning to those roots and rediscovering all that Napa has to offer, I’ll be adding Napa to my already over-filled plate, so you can expect to see some tweaking of tasting responsibilities when we hire a new reviewer. What exactly those will be will depend on who we recruit.

In addition to adding another reviewer, with the extensive backing of the Michelin Group now behind us, in the near term, we expect to revamp our website, develop additional video content and relaunch in-person tasting events when and where public health conditions allow.

William and I are excited to be leading a team of wine critics that’s committed to building on Robert Parker’s legacy as the ultimate consumers’ guide to wine. To truly fulfill that mission, we’d love to hear from you. Our marketing team recently sent out a survey so that we can get a better idea of what exactly you want—if you haven’t already done so, please take the five minutes or less it takes to fill out this survey and press the submit button.

Regardless of these changes and any others that result from your feedback, we know that you value our team’s expertise and independence, and those priorities—the bedrock of Robert Parker’s publication—won’t change. You’ll be able to continue to depend on our reviewers to call things as they see them, giving you the information you need to make your own wine-buying decisions.

Cheers,
Joe Czerwinski

Did you get this by email? Even though I am a subscriber, I received neither this email or one about a survey???

I did get it by email. I am not currently a subscriber.

[Alexander_Smith]

LPB is out? what is she doing next? seems silent on that

A cookbook on recipes for Black Forest Cake???

[Howard_Cooper]

News from Wine Advocate - congrats to William Kelley on the promotion!

Dear Reader,

As someone who counts the first paperback edition of Parker’s Wine Buyer’s Guide among the first wine books I purchased—alongside Tom Stevenson’s Sotheby’s World Wine Encyclopedia and Hugh Johnson’s Pocket Encyclopedia of Wine—it’s with a great sense of privilege and responsibility that I write today as the incoming Editor-in-Chief of Robert Parker Wine Advocate.

For this opportunity, I owe a great deal to Bob himself, who recognized more than two decades ago that the wine world had grown too large for any single person to be an expert in everything, and to my immediate predecessor, Lisa Perrotti-Brown, MW, who recruited me as managing editor nearly five years ago. Both of them were incredibly supportive of my efforts during their time here, and their regular counsel and steady hands will be missed.

Looking ahead, aside from Lisa’s departure, we’ve retained our entire cast of expert reviewers and are actively seeking to add at least one more member to the team. William Kelley, DPhil, has been promoted to Deputy Editor and will take over reviewing responsibilities for Bordeaux, in addition to Burgundy and Champagne. William has been a passionate follower of Bordeaux since his student days at Oxford, with extensive exposure to the great wines of the 1940s, 1950s and 1960s. Now based in France, he’s ideally situated to provide readers with the same boots-on-the-ground coverage of Bordeaux as he’s been delivering on Burgundy since 2017.

I’ll be following a path blazed by Bob for decades, regularly traveling to Napa to review the wines that originally captured my heart. Some of my most formative wine experiences revolve around Napa Valley: my first wine-region vacation in 1990, the first long-form article I penned as a professional wine writer and two invitations—once as a speaker—to the Symposium for Professional Wine Writers.

While I’m looking forward to returning to those roots and rediscovering all that Napa has to offer, I’ll be adding Napa to my already over-filled plate, so you can expect to see some tweaking of tasting responsibilities when we hire a new reviewer. What exactly those will be will depend on who we recruit.

In addition to adding another reviewer, with the extensive backing of the Michelin Group now behind us, in the near term, we expect to revamp our website, develop additional video content and relaunch in-person tasting events when and where public health conditions allow.

William and I are excited to be leading a team of wine critics that’s committed to building on Robert Parker’s legacy as the ultimate consumers’ guide to wine. To truly fulfill that mission, we’d love to hear from you. Our marketing team recently sent out a survey so that we can get a better idea of what exactly you want—if you haven’t already done so, please take the five minutes or less it takes to fill out this survey and press the submit button.

Regardless of these changes and any others that result from your feedback, we know that you value our team’s expertise and independence, and those priorities—the bedrock of Robert Parker’s publication—won’t change. You’ll be able to continue to depend on our reviewers to call things as they see them, giving you the information you need to make your own wine-buying decisions.

Cheers,
Joe Czerwinski

Did you get this by email? Even though I am a subscriber, I received neither this email or one about a survey???

I did get it by email. I am not currently a subscriber.

[M.Kaplan]

LPB is out? what is she doing next? seems silent on that

A cookbook on recipes for Black Forest Cake???

Well played. Many people are saying that John Morris will be the editor.

[Howard_Cooper]

LPB is out? what is she doing next? seems silent on that

A cookbook on recipes for Black Forest Cake???

Well played. Many people are saying that John Morris will be the editor.

I hope John puts in plenty of adjectives describing the cake.

[Ken_Strauss]

Congratulations to both Joe & William!
I am a subscriber that did get the announcement but no survey.
I will point out that WA is having a sale 25% off.
Use code BLACKFRIDAY2021 at checkout.

[AD_Northup]

Hopefully WK will still have time for some of the other writing he does. I really enjoy the articles in Noble Rot from time to time (as an example)

[Max_S1]

I will make one note, if you follow any amateur on Bordeaux, check out Keith Levenberg’s CT notes. They have yet to steer me astray.

Just started following him on CT, thanks to his notes on the 2019/2020 Dönnhoff Niederhäuser Hermannshöhle Spätlese.

[Tom_G_l_a_s_g_o_w]

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Don’t want to say too much too soon, but I would like to reassure you that work is also under way to make our site more intuitive and user friendly, so you can actually find something like this easily.

Glad to hear it. My mail chimp survey answer was extensive and covered some of this and other recommendations.

I was actually on a trial membership based on your work after years of avoiding the site and just tried to renew for a year and it won’t let me (there’s that membership sale after all). Sent an email to your website elves about it.

Congratulations again and thank you for all your work and willingness to engage.

I have the same problem, trying to convert monthly to annual.

[D_Zurcher]

I just subscribed for the first time in at least 10 years just for WK’s content. The rest will be a bonus.

[Vince_T]

This is awesome, congrats William! I will also resubscribe after many years of not. Incidentally, there is are 8 Wikipedia entries for William Kelley, but none of them is our William Kelley. Someone Wikipedia-inclined needs to change that!

[Karl_K]

Congrats to both!