In the summer of 1978, Robert Parker Jr. , a lawyer from Monkton, Maryland, published the first issue of The Wine Advocate from his basement. His innovation was a 100-point scale — borrowed from the American school grading system — that promised to do for wine what Consumer Reports had done for ...
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