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]]> By: Context: The Keystone of Wine Educationhttp://pinotblogger.com/2008/06/17/american-wine-critics-are-parasites/comment-page-1/#comment-110868 Context: The Keystone of Wine Education Tue, 01 Jul 2008 19:59:48 +0000 http://pinotblogger.com/?p=391#comment-110868 [...] made a pretty impassioned plea a couple posts back arguing that educating consumers is the key to driving demand for wine. Sounds [...] [...] made a pretty impassioned plea a couple posts back arguing that educating consumers is the key to driving demand for wine. Sounds [...]

]]> By: Josh Hermsmeyerhttp://pinotblogger.com/2008/06/17/american-wine-critics-are-parasites/comment-page-1/#comment-110077 Josh Hermsmeyer Thu, 26 Jun 2008 04:48:32 +0000 http://pinotblogger.com/?p=391#comment-110077 epicuria and Dr. Horowitz,Points well taken! People should be allowed to be controversial to sell books. But controversial DOES NOT equal credible. And that's the entire point.If you are going to base the sales of your book on unsubtle, "look at me" marketing, then isn't it disingenuous to at the same time criticize winemakers for making unsubtle "look at me wines"? epicuria and Dr. Horowitz,

Points well taken! People should be allowed to be controversial to sell books. But controversial DOES NOT equal credible. And that’s the entire point.

If you are going to base the sales of your book on unsubtle, “look at me” marketing, then isn’t it disingenuous to at the same time criticize winemakers for making unsubtle “look at me wines”?

]]> By: Dr. Horowitzhttp://pinotblogger.com/2008/06/17/american-wine-critics-are-parasites/comment-page-1/#comment-110076 Dr. Horowitz Thu, 26 Jun 2008 04:43:42 +0000 http://pinotblogger.com/?p=391#comment-110076 This might sound bad, but oh well. There was a Daily Show episode a few years ago when things started getting bad in Iraq and the Pentagon accused the media of being overly negative and not focusing on the positives in Iraq. John Stewart said something like "the media never focuses on the bus that didn't get bombed." Sorry, I forgot the punch line, but I guess my point is that if you don't ruffle some feathers, you are less likely to get blogged about and to get other PR. That said, I just started reading Wine Politics and don't intend to read Fearing's book whose title I am too lazy to type.I agree that the high road is to educate, but a lot of people, Mooks, and Midriffs just don't want to be educated... (for more on Mooks see http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/cool/). Education is not part of cool, and cool sells.Finally, to Orion Slayer... Gary Vaynerchuk is the champion of teaching you to shop at the Wine Library, where you can always find something new you haven't tried. Gary is very entertaining. This might sound bad, but oh well. There was a Daily Show episode a few years ago when things started getting bad in Iraq and the Pentagon accused the media of being overly negative and not focusing on the positives in Iraq. John Stewart said something like “the media never focuses on the bus that didn’t get bombed.” Sorry, I forgot the punch line, but I guess my point is that if you don’t ruffle some feathers, you are less likely to get blogged about and to get other PR. That said, I just started reading Wine Politics and don’t intend to read Fearing’s book whose title I am too lazy to type.

I agree that the high road is to educate, but a lot of people, Mooks, and Midriffs just don’t want to be educated… (for more on Mooks see http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/cool/). Education is not part of cool, and cool sells.

Finally, to Orion Slayer… Gary Vaynerchuk is the champion of teaching you to shop at the Wine Library, where you can always find something new you haven’t tried. Gary is very entertaining.

]]> By: David Colehttp://pinotblogger.com/2008/06/17/american-wine-critics-are-parasites/comment-page-1/#comment-109801 David Cole Tue, 24 Jun 2008 07:45:52 +0000 http://pinotblogger.com/?p=391#comment-109801 Good read. Your right, she is acting no different about selling her book than us wine folks do to sell our wines. The difference is when our wines get a bad score or are given critical write ups, it turns folks off and we lose sales. When someone talks bad about her or her book, it creates publicity and that sells books! Good read. Your right, she is acting no different about selling her book than us wine folks do to sell our wines. The difference is when our wines get a bad score or are given critical write ups, it turns folks off and we lose sales. When someone talks bad about her or her book, it creates publicity and that sells books!

]]> By: epicuriahttp://pinotblogger.com/2008/06/17/american-wine-critics-are-parasites/comment-page-1/#comment-109449 epicuria Sat, 21 Jun 2008 23:37:27 +0000 http://pinotblogger.com/?p=391#comment-109449 You're too level headed, Josh. I think a case can be made that confronting a major force in any field (trying to kill the giant) is much more interesting to the reading public than, in this instance, describing why elegance or finesse are more or as important in winemaking. She's got to sell those books as several folks noted. But indirectly she <strong>is</strong> supporting those vintners who are succeeding in controlling the New World weather and other components of terroir that ramp up those wines.The much more interesting question to me is how someone like John Alban, for example, can create so much intensity and richness without ever going over the top. You’re too level headed, Josh. I think a case can be made that confronting a major force in any field (trying to kill the giant) is much more interesting to the reading public than, in this instance, describing why elegance or finesse are more or as important in winemaking. She’s got to sell those books as several folks noted. But indirectly she is supporting those vintners who are succeeding in controlling the New World weather and other components of terroir that ramp up those wines.

The much more interesting question to me is how someone like John Alban, for example, can create so much intensity and richness without ever going over the top.

]]> By: Orion Slayerhttp://pinotblogger.com/2008/06/17/american-wine-critics-are-parasites/comment-page-1/#comment-109175 Orion Slayer Thu, 19 Jun 2008 21:18:45 +0000 http://pinotblogger.com/?p=391#comment-109175 Great post. So much information and food for thought in one article! I think we could all do with being more open about wine. I think Gary Vaynerchuk is the champion for trying all kinds of wines and not being closed off to any particular style. We could all enjoy wine much better with that attitude. Great post. So much information and food for thought in one article! I think we could all do with being more open about wine. I think Gary Vaynerchuk is the champion for trying all kinds of wines and not being closed off to any particular style. We could all enjoy wine much better with that attitude.

]]> By: Craig Camphttp://pinotblogger.com/2008/06/17/american-wine-critics-are-parasites/comment-page-1/#comment-109052 Craig Camp Thu, 19 Jun 2008 05:32:46 +0000 http://pinotblogger.com/?p=391#comment-109052 <em>That’s the basic question I had for Alice. So, when I asked her if she regretted writing the infamous LA Times piece, I was surprised at her response.“No,” she answered, and gave as her grounds the reasoning that it was good marketing for her book and for her message. “It got people talking,” she said.</em>That just blows me away. I speechless. If she said that it undermines her entire credibility. That’s the basic question I had for Alice. So, when I asked her if she regretted writing the infamous LA Times piece, I was surprised at her response.

“No,” she answered, and gave as her grounds the reasoning that it was good marketing for her book and for her message. “It got people talking,” she said.

That just blows me away. I speechless. If she said that it undermines her entire credibility.

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