UK wine writer Hugh Johnson opines:
'Imperial hegemony lives in Washington and the dictator of taste in Baltimore.'
US wine critic Robert Parker (a.k.a. the Baltimore dictator) fires back:
'Hugh Johnson compared me to George Bush. I'm a great admirer of Hugh, but he really lowered himself significantly to write that.'
I guess being compared to Bush hurt worse than being called a dictator. Anyway, Parker also complained "that his palate was much more complex than the 'simplistic view' that he likes big, extracted, so-called fruit-bomb style wines and rates them highly in tastings." But then why is practically every winemaker in the known world trying to max out their Parker scores by making fruit bombs?
