Wine Spectator goes vlogging
We can’t decide whether this is the Spectator’s answer to WLTV, or just glorified Food Network style programming on a smaller scale. No, scratch that. We can decide. It’s the latter all the way. But that doesn’t mean it’s not interesting or informative.
It’s just not quite as cutting edge as it could be. And by “not cutting edge”, we mean it’s highly produced, professionally edited, and slick rather than home-made-YouTube-y-amateurish and underground seeming stuff.
Nevertheless, worth a look:
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August 24th, 2007 at 1:30 pm
I like the production value but this just shows that WS knows their market and is sticking with it. Even though the audience that site like yours and other “everyman/woman” sites would prefer Youtube-ish production value.
They make a living on ads from Riedel, BMW, Mercedes, etc etc etc, i.e. luxury brand. If they made a GV style video they would break their brand, turn off their Demographic, and eventually lose sponsors…
Which do I prefer? Can’t say I sit around watching people drink wine so if I were going to watch one I would want it to be “edgy” and less boring.
Glad GV doesn’t have to cater to advertisers, hence giving him the ability to be himself…
BTW: Did you notice that the image at the beginning and end are the same Wine stain graphics from Wine Blogging Wednesday logo (and on that I used on my blog years ago as well - (from 2005)?
August 24th, 2007 at 7:02 pm
Personally I felt sort of like I was in a car showroom with two salesmen working on me. I’m more a fan of the GV style. While I know the folks in both places get paid to push products, I find Gary to be a more believable and comfortable person. The WS video seems too.. uh, boring.
September 3rd, 2007 at 9:53 am
[…] outside our world, but not inside. Somehow, we’ve deemed it okay to slam or praise Parker or Wine Spectator, but rarely will we do it among wine blogs. We overlook poor translations, grammar, style and […]
March 10th, 2010 at 3:34 am
Hi there, I found your site in a new directory. I dont know how your blogs came up, must have been a typo, Your sitelooks good. Have a nice day