Terry Robards, 84, dies; lifted fine wines in America as a New York Times critic

Terry Robards in 2004. He was a financial reporter who turned his passion for wine and winemaking into a second career as a critic and author. (Photo credit: Julie Robards)

Terry Robards, a former wine critic for The New York Times whose writing in the 1970s and ’80s helped Americans move beyond jug Chablis and cheap Chianti to explore regions and styles as far away — and, at the time, as exotic — as Burgundy and Tuscany and as close as upstate New York, died on May 23 at his home in Upper Jay, New York, near Lake Placid. He was 84.

His wife, Julie Robards, said the cause was heart failure.

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