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On Wednesday, April 20, at 11:40 a.m., the Rock Snobs themselves, David Kamp and Steven Daly, will pay a brief visit to The Brian Lehrer Show on WNYC, that titan of New York City public radio. Be sure to tune in (93.9 FM, 820 AM) and hear Brian snob it up with the boys. No word on whether or not Morning Edition’s mellifluous Soterios Johnson, who actually went to high school with one of the Rock Snobs, will stop by. April 19, 2005 More Rock Snobbery »
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Parker, Robert. Baltimore lawyer turned global overlord of wine-rating, at once respected by Snobs for legitimizing oeno-fetishism via his Wine Advocate magazine (begun in 1978) and his books (in particular 1985’s Bordeaux, since updated), and reviled for his power over winemakers, who, even in Europe, have tailored their product to suit his palate, which favors enormous, planet-sized, fruity, oaky, viscous, heavily EXTRACTED wines high in tannins and alcohol. Snobs especially love to bemoan Parker’s 100-point rating scale for wines, which impels lay consumers to avoid anything with a score lower than 90, and use the term Parkerize to describe the process by which wines and consumer tastes have changed as a result of Parker’s influence. Let us turn now to Chianti Classico, the last refuge of gracious, light, un-Parkerized Italian reds.