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Gary Vaynerchuk brings the thunder to Austin
Gary Vaynerchuk’s book signing and talk at Grape Vine Market yesterday was a great example of how inspiring and infectious his enthusiasm for both wine and people are. He talked for about an hour and 45 minutes about everything from his new book to how he’s capitalized on social networking tools to become one of the most influential people — not just wine bloggers — on the Web, period.
I’ll be writing a piece about our road trip to Houston for next week’s paper, but if you’ve got some video or a blog post to share about the event, put the link the comments below.
Tim Walker already has a blog post up over at Hoover’s that focuses on Gary’s take on marketing at yesterday’s event.
Digg Nation already has this video shot by Vayniac Dane Hurtubise of his impromptu Thunder Show at the North Austin market up online.
Gary’s going to be back in Houston in the next few days for the Food and Wine Week, where he’ll be mingling with Vayniacs and wine lovers from around the globe. (You should have seem him and winemaker extraordinaire Daniel Schuster last night at an event at America in the Woodlands. Talk about New World meets Old World.)
Fans are planning a Saturday night meetup with Gary at Cork Screw.
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By Tracksuit CEO
June 4, 2008 3:08 PM | Link to this
Nice video Dane! He blogged about it here: http://imdane.com/blog/?p=132
Is it true that Gary eats Jersey grass?
By Addie
June 4, 2008 3:19 PM | Link to this
That was a great video, Dane. There are probably a handful of other clips of Gary’s Austin tasting out there on the Web by now, but Dane had this one up in a flash this morning.
As for Jersey grass, I’m pretty sure he’d tried it as part of his reverse palate training, but it’s probably not part of his daily food intake.
Wonder if Jersey grass tastes differently than Texas grass?
By Terry
June 13, 2008 3:04 PM | Link to this
The easiest way to distinguish Jersey grass from Texas grass is by the old sniffy-sniff.