domaine547 poll: Gary Vaynerchuk

August 9th, 2007

We really do like Gary, but we we’ll admit that we’re a bit disappointed that he used the Wine Blogging Wednesday theme of Naked Chardonnay yesterday, but made no mention of an important web-wine community event.

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9 Responses to “domaine547 poll: Gary Vaynerchuk”

Gary Vaynerchuk
August 9th, 2007 at 11:41 am

I made a HUGE MISTAKE, I emailed Lenn and apologized, that was a DUMB mistake, I am so so sos sosos so sososso soss os sososo soso sooooooo Sorry it will never happen again!
Kathleen
August 9th, 2007 at 4:54 pm

I loved Gary’s show yesterday. I have been watching WineLibrary TV for a long time, and I’ve mentioned him in my blog several times. He’s a big part of why I like wine.
Gary is driven (in a good way) by the idea of building a wine community. Corkd, Myspace, Facebook, etc. I am so glad that he got wind of the WBW concept and has joined us.
I am absolutely 100% sure it was an oversight on his part to not “mention” where the theme for the show came from.
He’s bringing a lot of new wine drinkers into the wine lovers fold by giving them the confidence needed to trust their own noses and palates.
I am sure that he would be happy to give up props for our wine community next month and put a link on his page to our winebloggingwednesday.com page. He’s just a stand up guy like that.
Kathleen Lisson
Albany, NY
admin
August 9th, 2007 at 8:08 pm

Kathleen, we hope you’re right. But we brought up the issue since it seemed to be a pretty glaring omission to us. After all, WLTV advertises on at least a half dozen blogs who are participants in (if not founders of) WBW, and Gary was all a-twitter about the Naked theme (as were others).

So it’s pretty safe to assume that Gary was apprised of the event, since it would be uncharacteristic for Gary to be unaware of ANY goings-on in the wine 2.0 community. Like, totally, utterly uncharacteristic.

As you say, Gary’s also a pretty “driven” guy, and if he were going to “join us” then it would be surprising for him not to acknowledge the event — if only to discuss the positive signs of a healthy, growing wine community; that is, unless he has begun to concern himself more with his own fanbase (aka Vaynernation) than with the overall community, at large.

Yes, community is clearly important to Garyvee. Yes, he is bringing wine to a larger audience. But that doesn’t mean he isn’t losing sight of what has brought him so far up to this point.

Beware the cult of personality.
Gary Vaynerchuk
August 10th, 2007 at 3:18 am

D547 u guys know who I am …. We have shared many of nice convo’s I TOTALLY AGREE with u but I am sure when u chat with Lenn u will totally see it was a misplay by me and not in a WAY where I meant to do any harm, I WILL SO MAKE up for it and have always had my EYE on the overall impact, I am REALLLLLLLY SAD about this and hope u guys know where I come from!

Gary “Jerk on this issue but didn’t mean it” Vay NER Chuk
Lenn
August 10th, 2007 at 4:11 am

Hey guys. I had been hounding Gary for weeks to participate, and he did! That’s the exciting part.

Sure, he forgot to mention WBW, but that’s okay. I talked to him yesterday about it and he was VERY apologetic and promised to make it up to the WBW crew next month

Gary’s a good guy…let’s not give him a hard time about this.
admin
August 10th, 2007 at 5:39 am

Hi everyone. So Gary’s comments all wound up in our SPAM filter, which we just noticed at this bright early 6:30AM PST perusal. In fact, Gary’s comments have only ever landed in our SPAM filter, and we’re not quite sure why? Any thoughts?

So we should probably add “Gary is a mensch” or “give Gary the benefit of the doubt” to the poll, and appreciate his apology (and can’t wait to see what he does to make it up to us!).
admin
August 10th, 2007 at 6:11 am

we should add, we see a whole “gary is sorry” video series coming out of this…every time gary apologies, he must make a seven part video series to make up for it!
Gary Vaynerchuk
August 10th, 2007 at 2:08 pm

I dont want to go to spam!!!
admin
August 11th, 2007 at 10:29 pm

gary, you went to spam again. stop using so many exclamation points and emoticons, maybe?

or, maybe our spam filter is just bitter about your mollydooker reviews.

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