Anyone see this before Decanter pulled it off their server?

[Bucko]

Apparently Pierre Rovani clled it a hack job, complained to Decanter, and they pulled it. I wonder where the truth lies?

Parker denounces corporate 'bloodsuckers', fellow wine critics
Decanter.com
October 25, 2004
Alan Goldfarb in Napa

Mondavi's potential purchasers are 'bloodsuckers' and 'corporate suits' and Wine Spectator critics are dilettantes, Robert Parker told an audience in Napa last Friday.

The world's pre-eminent wine critic, who was being honored at a two-day event thrown by the Culinary Institute of America, was speaking before a wine tasting raising funds for scholarship endowments at the CIA's Rudd Center for Professional Wine Studies.

Referring to the takeover bid for the Robert Mondavi Corporation by Constellation Brands he said, 'I can't possibly understand it. The blood-sucking corporations without a soul don't understand what they're dealing with here.

'[Robert Mondavi] is the great American hero of wine, an icon and a great visionary,' Parker said. 'I'm hoping the big corporate suits (understand) they're dealing with a national treasure and allow the Mondavi family to go back to their core vineyards and let them to continue to conduct their business.'

Before an audience of about 125, Parker dismissed the documentary Mondovino, a film about the globalisation of wine, in which he is extensively interviewed, as 'just another of those sensational movies.'

He also accused the American wine journal Wine Spectator among others, of 'quasi wine-writing' because 'some of these so-called wine writers don't visit the properties,' as they should.

In addition, referring to the ageability of wine, he told those gathered - most of whom were from California and the Napa Valley – 'I have a pretty good track record predicting how long a wine will age. We know that the wines of Bordeaux, Burgundy, and even Italy, last and improve with age.

'We (also) know that the wines from the new world will last – but will they improve? There's no question that in Napa, Argentina, Australia, wines are made with more care and with better raw materials, but we don't know how they will improve.'

The two-day event included a tasting of the wines to which Parker had given perfect scores in his 25-year-old newsletter.