forgot the football – a cork!

Sensei, fun episode and I will definately try a Valpolicella!

QOTD – Since you put such high importance on freinds and family (Love you for that!) I think the contest should be about the person who can do a family/friends Holiday video and get as many members of their family involved as possible. The person who submits the best video showing members of their family enjoying wine at the Holdays wins $500 – $1000 worth of WL wine to host their next family gathering. Would tie in Family, friends and the Holidays and could be run now through the Holidays.

Take care,

Hopper

Oh – forgot to make my guess on the football….

#1 – chunk of cheese
#2 – WL Snow Globe
#3 – A smaller Jets football

GV, thanks for the heads-up on Zardini!! will be checking it out!

QOTD: hmmm….what would a wine lover like as a prize??? Wine? maybe? Winner gets not 1, not 2 but 3 picks (that is 3 bottles) of wine from Gary’s own wine cellar…..ok, maybe just 1, just 1 pick.

QOTD: It’s a piece of yay! toast.

QOTD: It’s a piece of yay! toast.

QOTD:
OK, let me think, how about free shipping for a year. Not fair to the Jersey people I know, then how about a bottle or a few bottles of your favorite wine.

Cheers

Wisconsin sucks! Arg.
I bought wine before and now I cant. Boooo Wisconsin.
And for the contest I think you should just pick me.
Thanks!

Wisconsin sucks! Arg.
I bought wine before and now I cant. Boooo Wisconsin.
And for the contest I think you should just pick me.
Thanks!

Oh! Congrats to the Canuck!
And the contest: Name one varietal for each letter of the alphabet (or as close as possible).

I just read through the preceding ideas. You are set for contest ideas for some time. My suggestions are already there, but with the holiday season here it seems like a natural to have folks send in pictures of family or holiday parties. Maybe prominently display a wristband, or a WLTV sign, or a picture of GV in the setting.

I also like the cork idea, could make quite a pile.

Prize?

I think having GV travel to one of our homes and host a wine tasting party is a great idea.

My favorite wine shop in Minneapolis celebrated 75 years this year and gave away 75 bottles of wine. Needless to say there were a lot of entries, many from me. Unfortunately I have to continue buying my wine this year. You could give a mixed or solid case of ?? Just figure some way to be able to get it to Minnesota.

A vineyard tour with Gary – nice idea, pretty pricey for travel.

I think less expensive prizes can be done more often and involve more people. At some point down the road here, if it isn’t going on already, some channel is going to initiate talks with GV to host a show, and then there can be all kinds of drawings, contests, and prizes. GV can then do tasting in a different location every day.

habeen-

Which wine shop do you go to? I travel to Minneapolis all the time!

Contest idea: Have people hold a wine tasting of their own with more than 4 people. Take a picture, send it in. Do a drawing of the entries.

Surdyk’s
303 East Hennepin Ave.
Minneapolis, MN 55414

Easily the best wine shop in Mpls. Best prices, best sales, best cheese shop, and the most low-key, knowledgeable staff.

Thanks!

GV,
QOTD: ?
Contest: My wife and I love to have wine tasting parties and every time we have had one…it is a huge success. Not to mention, we purchase a ton of wine prior to the event. Next Contest: Road Show: The winner of next contest would receive an all expense wine tasting with you as the guest…and your wife. Food parings, protocol and Thunder! To win, each contestant would have to describe their best idea of what the night would “look” like…that way, WL would have the opportunity to choose which one best fits what you would like to do. So…contestants get to dream about a wine tasting event, you get to choose where you would go, then, Mott could film the event and post on a future episode of WL TV.
I think it has “legs”!

GV,
QOTD: ?
Contest: My wife and I love to have wine tasting parties and every time we have had one…it is a huge success. Not to mention, we purchase a ton of wine prior to the event. Next Contest: Road Show: The winner of next contest would receive an all expense wine tasting with you as the guest…and your wife. Food parings, protocol and Thunder! To win, each contestant would have to describe their best idea of what the night would “look” like…that way, WL would have the opportunity to choose which one best fits what you would like to do. So…contestants get to dream about a wine tasting event, you get to choose where you would go, then, Mott could film the event and post on a future episode of WL TV.
I think it has “legs”!

Idea For Contest…..Who can go out and promote more people in one week to e-mail gary by visiting WLTV’s website. The body of the e-mail would have to contain the Name And E-Mail address of the person who referred them to the website to E-Mail GaryV. The Prize….Gary arranges the winner and 1 guest to be invited to Pinot Boot Camp In Oregon by getting an Oregon Winery To Invite That Winner and Gary picks up the airfare and accomodations for the week. I think like the widget contest my idea offers a great prize but also draws more attention and support to WLTV and The Wine Library. I know I would be personally knocking on every door in my neighborhood and to every person I spoke to to get them to E-mail Gary and to mention my name!!

QOTD: Ok – this is the small is the new big Seth Godin inspired contest.

The sneezer contest. You get two people to post on Wine Library everyday for a week who have not yet posted, separate IP address or whatever to confirm they are actually others. So the winner is you the person who refers the two newbies and your two buds.

So for each person over two who lists you as a reference and posts each day for a week in the comment section you get an entry. Maybe a little complicated to sort out.

I don’t know about the prize because they are usually better than what I even think of.

Also, under the Jets Football is Erik Kastner’s kid.

Next Contest –
I like some of the ideas I’ve read from the other comments. Having you come by for a tasting party would be great. I also like some of the ideas about tasting new wines for the entry to the contest. Although I think it should be more about tasting objects with the wines, like what you did on Conan or Ellen. Gary, make the masses eat dirt and bacon.

I’m not sure you could beat me in paper football by the way

Maybe you could incorporate that into the contest. How can you have a paper football tournament over the internet?

Thanks for all the fun.

How many posts do you have to have to not be a lurker?

QOTD1: Screw cap from a wine bottle?
QOTD2: Next contest? How about a WLTV rap contest? (Video option…I no has l33t video editing skillz.)

QOTD – Theres nothing under the football. You just wanted to show that you get more comments ?

I think liono is under the half-football

Under the football? a whatchamacallit?

Under the football? a whatchamacallit?