QOTD – Have a contest similar to what you did awhile ago where Vanyiacs showed you what they were doing to promote WLTV, do the same thing and people can show how they are promoting the book.

#2 – Montana grown wines. Havn’t seen any shown on WLTV before. I didn’t even knew thy grew any in this state. I figured it was too cold, like everyone else.

QOTD: Sign at the draft. WWE/TNA-style.

DUUUUUUDE!!
I’ve been sick for a week, and i sit down to catch up on the WLTV today and hear about this book. Amazing. And luckily it’s on the Amazon.co.uk so i can get it to (although $13.57 vs £9.11, why would amazon do that? grrr). I’ll have you know i’ll be purchasing a couple or copies and throwing them at all my friends until they actually read them.
Hope i’m not too late to get in on the bonus stuff for buying more than one, but to be honest, i’m sure the book will be awesome enough on its own.

QOTD:
well, the obvious thing to do would be a web 2.0 attack of the internet.
Have some sort of TWITTER “twit off”, spreading the word of the book.
Have a FLICKR poster competition.
Make a badge people can put up on their blogs/websites.
Similar things on FACEBOOK and MYSPACE.
The idea for a promotional video is good, and that can float around YOUTUBE and VIDDLER and VEOH and all of them.
You know and love web 2.0 more than most, PROVE ITS POWER.
Oh, and make a competition out of it so people feel more like doing it.

That said, people aren’t so likely to buy a book about something/someone they aren’t already interested in. Especially from something they’ve heard over the internet. Well, that might not be entirely true, but anyway….
The most likely way of selling them, in my opinion, it to get Vayniacs to buy them and give them to friends and family as gifts. Wine brings people together, and so do gifts, drinking wine on your own isn’t anywhere near as good as drinking wine with friends. Who wouldn’t want to spend a small amount on a book in order to get a friend into wine??

Or you could set up some specific wines, or maybe gift packs, or mystery packs, which come with a half price book or some other deal.

If all that fails, go with my method and just throw the book at people until they read it.

I’ll let you know if i think of anything else.

This week on WLTV, i’d like you to drink wines with foreign labels that you know nothing about. If such a thing exists.

DUUUUUUDE!!
I’ve been sick for a week, and i sit down to catch up on the WLTV today and hear about this book. Amazing. And luckily it’s on the Amazon.co.uk so i can get it to (although $13.57 vs £9.11, why would amazon do that? grrr). I’ll have you know i’ll be purchasing a couple or copies and throwing them at all my friends until they actually read them.
Hope i’m not too late to get in on the bonus stuff for buying more than one, but to be honest, i’m sure the book will be awesome enough on its own.

QOTD:
well, the obvious thing to do would be a web 2.0 attack of the internet.
Have some sort of TWITTER “twit off”, spreading the word of the book.
Have a FLICKR poster competition.
Make a badge people can put up on their blogs/websites.
Similar things on FACEBOOK and MYSPACE.
The idea for a promotional video is good, and that can float around YOUTUBE and VIDDLER and VEOH and all of them.
You know and love web 2.0 more than most, PROVE ITS POWER.
Oh, and make a competition out of it so people feel more like doing it.

That said, people aren’t so likely to buy a book about something/someone they aren’t already interested in. Especially from something they’ve heard over the internet. Well, that might not be entirely true, but anyway….
The most likely way of selling them, in my opinion, it to get Vayniacs to buy them and give them to friends and family as gifts. Wine brings people together, and so do gifts, drinking wine on your own isn’t anywhere near as good as drinking wine with friends. Who wouldn’t want to spend a small amount on a book in order to get a friend into wine??

Or you could set up some specific wines, or maybe gift packs, or mystery packs, which come with a half price book or some other deal.

If all that fails, go with my method and just throw the book at people until they read it.

I’ll let you know if i think of anything else.

This week on WLTV, i’d like you to drink wines with foreign labels that you know nothing about. If such a thing exists.

QOTD – 1. Get on Leo Laporte’s radio show and/or TWIT (or any podcast you can get on)… 2. Viral videos – have the fans create stuff for you

QOTD #2 – How about an episode on Canadian (eh?) Ice Wines?

Great zin show, looking forward to trying out the Neyers.

QOTD 2: Wines from Uruguay.

QOTD: Free shipping is HUUUUUUGE buying motivation.

QOTD2: More Steak & Wine!!!!!!!!!!!!! Big badass wines that can stand up to a ridiculously thick, aged, marbled, knock you into a como, oozing goodness, grilled rare Ribeye.

Run a contest for a private wine tasting by GV if you buy the lucky book!

QOTD: 1 I don’t know, marketing is not my thing. Sorry.

QOTD: 2 Central California coast Rhone blends. I was blown away at some of the stuff we tasted last week on our wine scouting week. I was looking for small production stuff that was hard to find in San Diego. I would love to see you try 2005 Core Elevation Sensation. I thought it drank like a beautiful French wine with California fruit. From a larger producer, I said it yesterday and it is worth repeating, Tablas Creek 2005 Esprit de Beaucastle and their 2006 Roussanne both knocked it out of the park.

QOTD: 1 I don’t know, marketing is not my thing. Sorry.

QOTD: 2 Central California coast Rhone blends. I was blown away at some of the stuff we tasted last week on our wine scouting week. I was looking for small production stuff that was hard to find in San Diego. I would love to see you try 2005 Core Elevation Sensation. I thought it drank like a beautiful French wine with California fruit. From a larger producer, I said it yesterday and it is worth repeating, Tablas Creek 2005 Esprit de Beaucastle and their 2006 Roussanne both knocked it out of the park.

QOTD1: What about distributing copies of the book to local restaurants/winebars as a bar book? I’m not sure how viable that is because of how things tend to walk off, but it would get wide exposure to non-Vayniacs. Also, all it would take would be one good hit and people’d be hooked.

why not do a show on cortes de cima from portugal.

QOTD2: How about Wine Progressions? I don’t know if you’ve done it already, but a show that talks about wines that lead well into each other through appetizers, entree, and dessert would be awesome. Not sure how that format would work though.

How about some Nero D’avola wines…..sicily seems to bring the THUNDER!

How about some Nero D’avola wines…..sicily seems to bring the THUNDER!

QOTD: Buy a TV spot during the NFL draft to promote the book. Tell everyone that the proceeds from the book will go towards removing Vinny Testaverde from NFL history.

QOTD: Buy a TV spot during the NFL draft to promote the book. Tell everyone that the proceeds from the book will go towards removing Vinny Testaverde from NFL history.

Side QOTD: I would like to see an Albarino head-to-head.

Show: Old-World-style wines from the New World.

QOTD 1: If you could get sales in wine shops not just bookstores that would work great. Probably not possible though.

QOTD 1: Put an ad on Google. It’s simple and VERYYYY effective. And also a crap-load of money. But it’s effective.

QOTD 2: I’d like to see a Chinese wine taste off. You’ve only had one wine from China on your show. I know you don’t carry any, but it would be fun. If not China, then from some other crazy region that gets zero press. Hey, it’s all about expanding our palettes, right?!

My 2 cents on the ’05 Ridge Lytton Springs: I got an opportunity to visit them in Feb, and I noticed that their Zins range all over as far as taste and quality. They do so much sourcing out that it really comes down picking their single vineyard stuff. For example, the 40th Anniversary Geyserville was a big hit with a lot of people in the tasting room, but it seemed weak and what you would call “flabby”. On the other hand, their Carmichael estate release, which is only available through their wine club, blew me away. It tastes like a serious zin should taste like, and I wanted to join their club just for that wine alone. I guess my point is that maybe you didn’t pick the best of the bunch that Ridge puts out for today’s battle, and I’m a little disappointed in that. Still, it was a fun show to watch.

QOTD 1: Put an ad on Google. It’s simple and VERYYYY effective. And also a crap-load of money. But it’s effective.

QOTD 2: I’d like to see a Chinese wine taste off. You’ve only had one wine from China on your show. I know you don’t carry any, but it would be fun. If not China, then from some other crazy region that gets zero press. Hey, it’s all about expanding our palettes, right?!

My 2 cents on the ’05 Ridge Lytton Springs: I got an opportunity to visit them in Feb, and I noticed that their Zins range all over as far as taste and quality. They do so much sourcing out that it really comes down picking their single vineyard stuff. For example, the 40th Anniversary Geyserville was a big hit with a lot of people in the tasting room, but it seemed weak and what you would call “flabby”. On the other hand, their Carmichael estate release, which is only available through their wine club, blew me away. It tastes like a serious zin should taste like, and I wanted to join their club just for that wine alone. I guess my point is that maybe you didn’t pick the best of the bunch that Ridge puts out for today’s battle, and I’m a little disappointed in that. Still, it was a fun show to watch.

Thanks Gary for the birthday shout out! YOU ROCK

Thanks Gary for the birthday shout out! YOU ROCK

Great to see another show on Zins … (my fav)

Wow, the Neyer sounds great – balanced, earthy, big pepper. right up my alley.

May need to head out to BevMo later and see if there’s any around.

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Dave
Twitter = SoCalDaveL