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36. Gerry Dawes's Spain: An Insider's Guide to Spanish Food, Wine, Culture and Travel gerrydawesspain.com

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2/18/2024

A Blast From The Past-Wine Division According to Recently "Retired" Spanish wine critic Jay Miller of Robert M. Parker, Jr.'s The Wine Advocate, Great Wine Can Be Equated to Pornography



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"Whether I am in front of (great?) porno or a great wine I (can recognize) either without difficulty". -- Robert M. Parker, Jr.'s The Wine Advocate's Spanish wine critic Jay Miller in an interview with Barcelona’s La Vanguardia, January 2011.


  Jay Miller in Catalunya. 
(Photo: La Vanguardia.)


"For The Wine Advocate’s (just "retired") Spanish Wine Critic Jay Miller a great wine, a wine with 100 Parker points, is one capable of moving you. He adds that "it is the one who makes you live a great experience, that makes you exclaim wow!".

He said that it is difficult to express in words, but compared the experience with the pornography: "Whether I am in front of (great?) porno or a great wine I (can recognize) either without difficulty"."

In an interview with Barcelona’s La Vanguardia (January 2011), Spain’s Equivalent of The New York Times.

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