The Wine Advocate has traditionally been a bi-monthly publication and Robert Parker Wine Advocate continues this tradition, although we now publish articles and reviews every week. At our core, we publish regionally focused reports, which mainly offer wine reviews of new wine releases, but we also produce important vintage retrospectives and occasionally single-label verticals and producer profiles.
Until 2002, The Wine Advocate was exclusively available in print format and available only to subscribers. While we still operate a subscriber-only model, in 2002 we launched our highly successful eRobertParker.com website, which has since become simply RobertParker.com.
Since 2019, Robert Parker Wine Advocate has been a wholly owned subsidiary of the Michelin Group.
Key RobertParker.com features include:
- An online database housing over 450,000 Wine Reviews and Ratings—more than any other wine reviews website!
- Reviews of wines from more than 25 different countries and over 500 different regions around the wine world.
- Instant online access to every Wine Advocate / Robert Parker Wine Advocate issue dating back to 1992.
- Fast access to the most up-to-date reviews on new wine releases and older vintages produced by our team of renowned, unbiased regional wine authorities, each of whom works exclusively forRobert Parker Wine Advocate.
- The most flexible and robust Wine Reviews and Articles search capabilities of any wine criticism website
- Our “Advanced Search” capabilities allow subscribers to search our database with unrivaled precision and ease, utilizing more filters than any other wine reviews database, including by: Vintage, Author, Issue, Article, Region, Producer, Wine Type, Color, Sweetness, Rating and Price.
- Our incredibly refined Regional searches allow users to filter across up to five regional levels—more than any other wine reviews database—and encompassing wines.
- Access to our RP Cellar management tool and our famous Vintage Guide, plus much, much more!
The number of wine reviews published on our RobertParker.com website every month varies, ranging from 2,000 to 6,000+, depending on the Editorial Calendar for that month. The Editorial Calendar looks to include the whole world of wine regions, which is indeed a tall order. Most of the major wine regions of the world are covered annually, although some smaller regions will be reviewed every two to three years. The Wine Advocate Editorial Calendar is available to view online in the Resources section of our website.
We now also offer smaller, online-only issues in between our regularly scheduled monthly issues. This offers our readers even more timely access to tasting notes of newly released wines.
