在葡萄酒品质的激烈较量中，意大利与法国长期争夺领先位置，但是在价值体系的构建和市场推广上，法国葡萄酒显得更为领先。罗伯特·帕克Robert Parker在这场竞赛中扮演了至关重要的角色，他创立的百分制评价体系曾是以法国波尔多为中心的。在他35年的不懈努力下，从1978年起，波尔多地区从30多家知名酒庄增至近400家，可以说波尔多乃至法国葡萄酒在全球成功的大背景下，罗伯特·帕克对其评分体系所做出的贡献不可或缺。

随着罗伯特·帕克Robert Parker对法国高端葡萄酒销售价格影响力越来越大，他越来越难以给这些享誉盛名的著名酒庄低于90分甚至接近70-80分这样的评分，这对于许多商人而言意味着数十万到几百万欧元巨额损失。正处于利益漩涡中心的人物，在2012年将《葡萄酒倡导者The Wine Advocate》杂志转让给新加坡团队，并于2014年开始放弃亲自打分工作。

然而，与之形成鲜明对比的是意大利，其丰富多样性、个性化和特色产品一直被认为是世界级别的地标之一。虽然它同样拥有举足轻重的地位，但却未能获得同等程度的地位认可。这可能是因为意大利相对于法国产量大的同时，它们也更加注重地方特色，不易被单一标准所概括。

今年，或许意识到了过去偏向过度专注于一个国家，而忽视了其他国家潜力的罗伯特·帕克决定重新探索并发现意大利葡萄酒的独特魅力。他与WineNews记者Monica Larner共同主持了一次关于托斯卡纳（Toscana）第一届“The Wine Advocate”大师班，以此深入了解意大利美丽风情中的每一个角落。1985年的Sassicaia便是他极为推荐的一款作品，用他的话来说，这是我“37年职业生涯内最中意的一款”，也是带领我国走向与法相媲美地位的一个里程碑。

"Italy and France, both are the wine world's historical giants," Robert Parker said. "These two countries' wines have been, and will continue to be, the industry benchmark for the entire world, especially for those 'New World' winemakers." He added: "Throughout Europe, Italy is the country with the most indigenous grape varieties; it is a treasure trove of wine in the world. Diversity and complexity are what make Italian wines so attractive."

For Parker, red wine brings its greatest joy from "diversity". In his career life's most beautiful moments was seeing local grape varieties being continuously developed. Especially in Italy - this land of multiple flower blooming.

Robert Parker begins to pay attention to Italian wines as well can be seen as a new beginning away from Bordeaux for him to discover charm of changing and surprising Italian wines & dealing with less skilled business men who make them may let later years Park more focused on discovering charm & value of Italian wines & continuous improvement of their quality system.

In 1978 year Robert Parker established famous “percentage grading system”. Initially this system was just personal tool he never thought that it would have such deep impact on almost all worlds wine industries till now.