Hello,

My father is interested in selling his complete collection of original
Robert Parker Wine Advocate newsletters. I was planning to help him
post an auction on eBay, but first I wanted to see if there was anyone
on this group who might be interested. Given the ephemeral nature of
newsletters, this is likely one of the most complete collections in
existence.

If you are interested, please contact me offlist at .
If the collection isn't sold privately, and it does go to eBay, I'll
post another message letting the group know when auction starts.

Thanks,
Dan McCleary

Here are some of my father's notes on the collection:

"I have the first 20 years of Parkers newsletters with the exception of
No. II (2) which came out before I subscribed. I do have No. I which was
given out free at some local wine stores. This represents 119 issues at
a cost of over $3,000 (subscription price)

1. The first five issues were called “The Baltimore-Washington Wine
Advocate” The name changed to The Wine Advocate with issue VI.
2. The issues used Roman Numerals until Issue #30 which used regular
numbers.
3. The first issues identified retail liquor stores in the Baltimore
Washington area that sold the wine recommended. Profiles of local wine
stores were included in the early issues. I still have some of them.
4. Parker became famous for predicting the quality of the 1982 Bordeaux
vintage. Issue XXVI (26) in April 1983 was the first to call attention
to this fantastic vintage.
5. The early issues are very interesting because of the low prices for
which excellent first growth wines could be purchased.

I have all the issues, I think except #1. What do you want for that.
Harry's on Greenmount a few blocks from Memorial Stadium, is where your
father probably got issue # 1. They had a Les Amis chapter. Anyway if you
showed one off the Orman's who owned the place your WA, you got 50% off on
one bottle each month. I got some d"Yquem & Mondavi Reserve that way.
Eventually Bob decided being in a business relationship with any store was
not good so one day, I had a $52 Ch Marguax ready for my discount and Alan
just smiled and said "offer over." Alan now does commercial real estate and
has handled the sale of many wine shops. His cousin Lenny was my union's
and my own lawyer, which never got Alan to budge on a discount for me. I
sort of blew my good will buying top of the line wines at the 50% discount.

--
Joseph B. Rosenberg
> wrote in message
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> Hello,
>
> My father is interested in selling his complete collection of original
> Robert Parker Wine Advocate newsletters. I was planning to help him
> post an auction on eBay, but first I wanted to see if there was anyone
> on this group who might be interested. Given the ephemeral nature of
> newsletters, this is likely one of the most complete collections in
> existence.
>
> If you are interested, please contact me offlist at .
> If the collection isn't sold privately, and it does go to eBay, I'll
> post another message letting the group know when auction starts.
>
> Thanks,
> Dan McCleary
>
> Here are some of my father's notes on the collection:
>
> "I have the first 20 years of Parkers newsletters with the exception of
> No. II (2) which came out before I subscribed. I do have No. I which was
> given out free at some local wine stores. This represents 119 issues at
> a cost of over $3,000 (subscription price)
>
> 1. The first five issues were called “The Baltimore-Washington Wine
> Advocate” The name changed to The Wine Advocate with issue VI.
> 2. The issues used Roman Numerals until Issue #30 which used regular
> numbers.
> 3. The first issues identified retail liquor stores in the Baltimore
> Washington area that sold the wine recommended. Profiles of local wine
> stores were included in the early issues. I still have some of them.
> 4. Parker became famous for predicting the quality of the 1982 Bordeaux
> vintage. Issue XXVI (26) in April 1983 was the first to call attention
> to this fantastic vintage.
> 5. The early issues are very interesting because of the low prices for
> which excellent first growth wines could be purchased.
>
>