A Day-In-The-Life-With-Robert-Parker-Jr Back in 1983-84 / Seems Like Many Lifetimes Ago!

This was so long ago and yet I think it will be interesting for some to read this as there was a time before Robert Parker, Jr. of the Wine Advocate ( also referred to by some as God ) was not yet well-known or famous and was still struggling to be heard/ to make some money / to make a name for himself / to survive off his writing and the Wine Advocate and not as the lawyer that he once was before his wife that taught French convinced him to follow his wine dream. It was the time when he wrote wine reviews for the Washington Post newspaper, it was also the time before he had published anything but the Wine Advocate, before the internet and all the technology that puts everything at one's finger tips! It was a quieter and gentler time, where there was a delay response, where things were not immediate and where it took both effort and risk to learn things / taste things / have one's experience before you could read someone else's experience and basically not even have to bother to have your own experience and save your money if you wanted. It was a good time. I loved it. Being an artist I see that time as a time when my canvas, as well as everyone else's was basically still white and " virgin " and ready to be painted upon where dreams and hopes and aspirations and the promise of everything was palpable, tangible and really an important part of the equation. It was a time when each of us was able to be really intimately involved in our experiences with wine and not be so well-prepared and read and educated before we even sipped our first sip!