Comments on: Public to choose wines for top London restaurant using Twitter

By: Composing a wine label using Social Media | Rok Media

Composing a wine label using Social Media | Rok Media — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 19:33:33 +0000

[...] could easily be seen as a gimmick that devalues the skill of the sommelier. But given that Gal had carefully selected the 9 wines that were being selected from, he was never [...]

By: Composing a Wine List using Social Media - PSFK

Composing a Wine List using Social Media - PSFK — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 12:30:54 +0000

[...] could easily be seen as a gimmick that devalues the skill of the sommelier. But given that Gal had carefully selected the 9 wines that were being selected from, he was never [...]

By: Philip Woodrow

Philip Woodrow — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 21:40:41 +0000

Agreed here that this can only a good thing for L’anime.

It’s important to note that Lisa DeBruin (@winedivergirl) was Director of Social Media at Hahn Family Wines long before the Murphy Goode campaign. (With all due respect to Hardy…a really goode guy!)

By: Dan Coward

Dan Coward — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 16:22:40 +0000

Dr. Horowitz – You clearly don’t know Jancis Robinson MW very well, do you?

By: Charlie Olken

Charlie Olken — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 02:00:05 +0000

There is no downside here. Either the idea will draw interest, and thus customers or it will not. No one is going to stop going to the place if the food is good. No one is going to stop going because their wine list is lame–because obviously, it is not.

There is an upside. It is all potential, but it is an upside. Attention from folks who have heard of you but have not gone there, attention from folks who have never heard of you, free publicity from Jancis Robinson.

If the whole wine list were going to be determined by a vote of the people from virtually everything on the market, that would be one thing. This is three wines as part of a major list. If no one votes. so what?”

There is no preset way that SMEDIA are to be used. Tom Merle has it right. Power to the people–but not too much. :=}