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Posted: Sat Mar 23, 2013 3:28 am
Hey, I'm sure there's something in my eBob subscription that makes my posting this a huge legal liability, but here goes...
As you may have guessed Robert Parker, the entire Wine Advocate team and I have been extremely busy over the last few weeks putting our plans for future developments into action. We’re happy to disclose to you, our valued readers, that we are nearly ready to announce some exciting updates.
Firstly, as you’re probably aware, Bob and I have been working closely to recruit new reviewers for the Wine Advocate team. We can now reveal that in addition to our current team - Bob, Neal, David, Mark and I – we will be taking on 3 new very talented reviewers. So yes, we’re expanding to give you greater coverage including more in-depth reports and even more tasting notes all in a more timely fashion. But because of the varying notice periods that these wine writers needed to give their current employers, we will be staggering the announcements of them. The first reviewer’s identity and his/her regions of responsibility will be revealed to our subscribers on the eRobertParker.com Bulletin Board and via email on Tuesday, 2nd April. On this date we will additionally announce the details of some changes to our current reviewers’ areas of responsibility. And the new (amended) Editorial Calendar for 2013 will be also posted on this date.
Towards the end of April we are planning a Wine Advocate Reviewers’ Meeting in the USA. This will be a chance for all our reviewers, current and new, to meet each other and the Wine Advocate team to discuss future editorial plans. Prior to this meeting at the end of April we hope to be able to announce to readers details of the other two reviewers and will endeavour to do so as soon as their current contractual agreements allow.
In other good news, it would be remiss of me and our IT team would be greatly aggrieved if I did not mention their exciting new babies, which I hope will be cause to rejoice for those mobile app addicts amongst us. We are on the cusp of launching several apps exclusively for eRobertParker.com subscribers. They will be available for iPhone, Android and Windows phones and for the iPad as well as Android tablets and any Windows 8 device. The official launch will be in early April and more details of the functionality of the apps and where to download them will be coming to you very soon.
Finally, we would like to apologise for the disruption caused to your expectations of reporting in the next issue of the Wine Advocate, Issue 206. Due to a situation outside our control we will not be able to offer you the Barolo 2009, Brunello 2008 reports that were mentioned in the previous Editorial Calendar, which as you know often changes during the course of the year depending upon changes in reviewers’ schedules. Nor will we be able to feature the much anticipated Sonoma report in this forthcoming issue. Rest assured that we have a couple of incredible critics on the case of these reports now and we believe once the reviewers are announced and the reports are published (as soon as we can turn them around), you won’t be disappointed.
For Issue 206 we are planning for the following reports to feature (in print and/or on eRobertParker.com):
Robert Parker: 2012 Bordeaux report
Neal Martin: Spain, Toro
Neal Martin: Spain, La Mancha
Neal Martin: Spain, Cigales
Neal Martin: Sauternes 2012
Neal Martin: Vertical of Rivesaltes
David Schildknect: Germany, Mosel
David Schildknect: Selections from the Loire
Mark Squires: Misc. Notes from Greece, Portugal and Isreal
Lisa P-B: Henschke’s New Releases and 50 Years of Hill of Grace
Lisa P-B: NewZealand, Martinborough
The rest of David Schildknect’s Washington notes are being quickly proofed by the editorial team and will be posted soon.
Thank you for your continued loyalty and for bearing with us during this transitional period.
Yours faithfully,
Lisa
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Lisa Perrotti-Brown MW
Last edited by eRP Support : 03-20-2013 at 09:10 PM.
As you may have guessed Robert Parker, the entire Wine Advocate team and I have been extremely busy over the last few weeks putting our plans for future developments into action. We’re happy to disclose to you, our valued readers, that we are nearly ready to announce some exciting updates.
Firstly, as you’re probably aware, Bob and I have been working closely to recruit new reviewers for the Wine Advocate team. We can now reveal that in addition to our current team - Bob, Neal, David, Mark and I – we will be taking on 3 new very talented reviewers. So yes, we’re expanding to give you greater coverage including more in-depth reports and even more tasting notes all in a more timely fashion. But because of the varying notice periods that these wine writers needed to give their current employers, we will be staggering the announcements of them. The first reviewer’s identity and his/her regions of responsibility will be revealed to our subscribers on the eRobertParker.com Bulletin Board and via email on Tuesday, 2nd April. On this date we will additionally announce the details of some changes to our current reviewers’ areas of responsibility. And the new (amended) Editorial Calendar for 2013 will be also posted on this date.
Towards the end of April we are planning a Wine Advocate Reviewers’ Meeting in the USA. This will be a chance for all our reviewers, current and new, to meet each other and the Wine Advocate team to discuss future editorial plans. Prior to this meeting at the end of April we hope to be able to announce to readers details of the other two reviewers and will endeavour to do so as soon as their current contractual agreements allow.
In other good news, it would be remiss of me and our IT team would be greatly aggrieved if I did not mention their exciting new babies, which I hope will be cause to rejoice for those mobile app addicts amongst us. We are on the cusp of launching several apps exclusively for eRobertParker.com subscribers. They will be available for iPhone, Android and Windows phones and for the iPad as well as Android tablets and any Windows 8 device. The official launch will be in early April and more details of the functionality of the apps and where to download them will be coming to you very soon.
Finally, we would like to apologise for the disruption caused to your expectations of reporting in the next issue of the Wine Advocate, Issue 206. Due to a situation outside our control we will not be able to offer you the Barolo 2009, Brunello 2008 reports that were mentioned in the previous Editorial Calendar, which as you know often changes during the course of the year depending upon changes in reviewers’ schedules. Nor will we be able to feature the much anticipated Sonoma report in this forthcoming issue. Rest assured that we have a couple of incredible critics on the case of these reports now and we believe once the reviewers are announced and the reports are published (as soon as we can turn them around), you won’t be disappointed.
For Issue 206 we are planning for the following reports to feature (in print and/or on eRobertParker.com):
Robert Parker: 2012 Bordeaux report
Neal Martin: Spain, Toro
Neal Martin: Spain, La Mancha
Neal Martin: Spain, Cigales
Neal Martin: Sauternes 2012
Neal Martin: Vertical of Rivesaltes
David Schildknect: Germany, Mosel
David Schildknect: Selections from the Loire
Mark Squires: Misc. Notes from Greece, Portugal and Isreal
Lisa P-B: Henschke’s New Releases and 50 Years of Hill of Grace
Lisa P-B: NewZealand, Martinborough
The rest of David Schildknect’s Washington notes are being quickly proofed by the editorial team and will be posted soon.
Thank you for your continued loyalty and for bearing with us during this transitional period.
Yours faithfully,
Lisa
__________________
Lisa Perrotti-Brown MW
Last edited by eRP Support : 03-20-2013 at 09:10 PM.