Jovial LA Times Wine Critic Passes Away
Long before the 1985 debut of Robert M. Parker‘s newsletter, LA Times wine critic Lawrence Robert Balzer launched a similar subscription-based corkage guide in 1970. The guide published for 14 years and is just one of this esteemed journalist’s many accomplishments.
Balzer, age 99, died of natural causes on December 1 in Orange. In addition to reviewing wines for the paper from 1964 to 1995, he authored a dozen books and taught up until a few years ago several annual wine-tasting courses aboard the Queen Mary.
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