In this episode of 1WDTV, I rant about why it’s stupid to make a distinction between wine bloggers and fine wine consumers, as if the two populations couldn’t possibly overlap (they do); and yet, the wine media tries to make this distinction time and time again, effectively setting everyone off on a wild goose chase.
To illustrate this, I play off a theme I tackled during a recent interview I gave in South America, only this time with a (very crude) graph to show how I believe the U.S. population of wine consumers and wine bloggers is distributed, which involves a standard deviation bell curve (actually, alcohol consumption probably more closely follows a Gamma distribution, but that’s splitting hairs).
Anyway, enjoy!
The Artificial Distinction Between Wine Bloggers and Consumers
Cheers!
Comments
barrelthief
YES ! I can't say more.. just YES! Also this photo captures my initial reaction to the video. http://weknowmemes.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09…
1WineDude
Barrelthief – thanks for that. That image kicks soooo much ass, love it! " Wowowowo gimme One Vision…."
Ron Washam HMW
1WineDoody,
That was flat-out the best Professor Irwin Corey impression I've ever seen!
1WineDude
Thanks, HMW! That guy has way more hair than I do, though…
Alana Gentry
Right on. Thanks Joe. I'm sharing this with every wine business person I know including academics from 40 countries. Maybe a grad student will run those numbers. Cheers~
1WineDude
Thanks, Alana – I’d love to see the results of that if they do!