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So, two months after the article,
Tim Mondavi says to me:
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"Let's get together,
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"because I think you should
work for Mondavi in the US."
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Did Mondavi know you and Parker
were good friends?
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Sure, sure.
Everybody knows that.
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Parker's my friend,
but let's be clear.
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I'm good friends with Bob.
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We've known each other
for 20 years.
1:00:01
We're good friends.
1:00:03
But it has no bearing at all!
1:00:04
But it has no bearing at all!
1:00:07
Robert Parker incites people
in France to commit fraud.
1:00:12
I don't know
if he's aware of it.
1:00:15
We know some people have altered
their wines, sometimes illegally,
1:00:23
because they wanted to be
in the Parker Wine Guide.
1:00:26
So they needed wines that were
concentrated and deeply colored.
1:00:32
Sometimes what they present
to Parker
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isn't representative
of their production.
1:00:40
But he's inspired
a whole school of wine production,
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that includes illegal methods.
1:00:48
It's a serious problem.
1:00:50
Even in Burgundy,
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which traditionally doesn't produce
deep-colored wines,
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people need to have deep color
or Parker won't be happy.