Luis Gutiérrez, le nouvel homme de Parker en Espagne.
Il faut bien l'avouer, c'était un peu le cirque au Wine Advocate, depuis l'arrivée des investisseurs singapouriens et la mise en pré-retraite de Robert Parker. De démissions en mutations, on ne savait plus trop qui allait s'occuper de quoi, et certains pays se retrouvaient orphelins. Ainsi l'Espagne, abandonnée par le britannique Neal Martin (qui y avait été parachuté après le scandale et la démission de Jay Miller, suite au Jumillagate) et qui, visiblement, s'y ennuyait un peu.
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Eh bien, on connait désormais le nom de l'heureux élu, de celui qui va avoir la charge de déguster, et de noter les jus ibériques pour le compte d'Uncle Bob et de ses successeurs: il s'agit de Luis Gutíerrez Santo Domingo. Ce cadre de Tetra Pak, authentique passionné de vin (chic type et franc-buveur), spécialiste des vieux vins de La Rioja*, de Jerez ou de Madère sait également se montrer ouvert à de nouvelles tendances, éventuellement même à des vins moins conventionnels, très loin de l'ancien style parkérisable boisé-lourd-sucré. Jusqu'à présent, en parallèle de son "vrai" métier, il collaborait aux blogs de l'anglaise Jancis Robinson et au site madrilène elmundovino.es. Outre l'Espagne, il devrait également suivre la production du Chili et de l'Argentine**, de son côté, Monica Larner (photo en bas de la page) suivra les crus italiens.
*Il avait notamment animé il y a quelques mois une superbe dégustation verticale de Viña Real, à Barcelone.
** Cette information provient d'un courrier le Lisa Perrotti-Brown, la nouvelle patronne du Wine Advocate, courrier reproduit ci-dessous.
"On behalf of Robert Parker and everyone at the Wine Advocate and eRobertParker.com, I’m pleased to announce the two newest members of our reviewer team: Monica Larner and Luis Gutiérrez.
Monica Larner will be responsible for reviewing the wines of Italy. An American and fluent Italian speaker currently based in Rome, Italy, Monica has been living on and off in Italy since age 11. Having grown up in a household that celebrated a deep appreciation for the culture of wine, she developed a love for wine from an early age. After high school in both Italy and California, Monica earned her undergraduate and graduate degrees in journalism from Boston University and New York University respectively. In 2003 she became Wine Enthusiast magazine’s first Italian editor. Over the course of the next ten years, her tasting responsibilities grew to producing 3,000 Italian wine notes per year (totalling 16,000 published reviews overall). She set up a tasting bureau near the Colosseum in Rome and continued her intense travel to the far-flung wine zones of Italy. Her proudest achievement is the 185-page special collector’s Wine Enthusiast “Wines of Italy” edition that showcases her decade-long body of work.
A native of Spain, Luis Gutiérrez joins us as our reviewer for Spain, Chile and Argentina. After more than two decades of working in an IT position for a large multinational company based in Madrid, sharing his free time between his family and wine, he has decided to make wine his full-time career. Luis was a founding member of elmundovino.com, the prestigious wine website published in Spanish, where he has written and tasted since its creation in the year 2000. He has also written for other publications belonging to the El Mundo newspaper in Spain as well as contributing to different wine and gastronomy publications in Spain, Portugal, Puerto Rico and the UK. He was the Spanish specialist correspondent for Jancisrobinson.com since May 2011 and received the Spanish National Gastronomy Award for journalism in November 2012 from the Spanish Minister for Tourism. Today he continues to live in the Spanish capital with his British-Irish-Italian wife and their three children.
We hope you’ll join us in welcoming Monica and Luis to our team!
Cheers,
Lisa Perrotti-Brown."
** Cette information provient d'un courrier le Lisa Perrotti-Brown, la nouvelle patronne du Wine Advocate, courrier reproduit ci-dessous.
"On behalf of Robert Parker and everyone at the Wine Advocate and eRobertParker.com, I’m pleased to announce the two newest members of our reviewer team: Monica Larner and Luis Gutiérrez.
Monica Larner will be responsible for reviewing the wines of Italy. An American and fluent Italian speaker currently based in Rome, Italy, Monica has been living on and off in Italy since age 11. Having grown up in a household that celebrated a deep appreciation for the culture of wine, she developed a love for wine from an early age. After high school in both Italy and California, Monica earned her undergraduate and graduate degrees in journalism from Boston University and New York University respectively. In 2003 she became Wine Enthusiast magazine’s first Italian editor. Over the course of the next ten years, her tasting responsibilities grew to producing 3,000 Italian wine notes per year (totalling 16,000 published reviews overall). She set up a tasting bureau near the Colosseum in Rome and continued her intense travel to the far-flung wine zones of Italy. Her proudest achievement is the 185-page special collector’s Wine Enthusiast “Wines of Italy” edition that showcases her decade-long body of work.
A native of Spain, Luis Gutiérrez joins us as our reviewer for Spain, Chile and Argentina. After more than two decades of working in an IT position for a large multinational company based in Madrid, sharing his free time between his family and wine, he has decided to make wine his full-time career. Luis was a founding member of elmundovino.com, the prestigious wine website published in Spanish, where he has written and tasted since its creation in the year 2000. He has also written for other publications belonging to the El Mundo newspaper in Spain as well as contributing to different wine and gastronomy publications in Spain, Portugal, Puerto Rico and the UK. He was the Spanish specialist correspondent for Jancisrobinson.com since May 2011 and received the Spanish National Gastronomy Award for journalism in November 2012 from the Spanish Minister for Tourism. Today he continues to live in the Spanish capital with his British-Irish-Italian wife and their three children.
We hope you’ll join us in welcoming Monica and Luis to our team!
Cheers,
Lisa Perrotti-Brown."
Tiens, tiens, l'ami Luis croisé encore récemment au concours madrilène (Vila Viniteca).
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