{"id":303,"date":"2011-08-24T09:24:58","date_gmt":"2011-08-24T13:24:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/batchat.net\/?p=303"},"modified":"2011-08-24T09:24:58","modified_gmt":"2011-08-24T13:24:58","slug":"gary-vee-calls-it-quits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bevologyinc.com\/blog\/2011\/08\/24\/gary-vee-calls-it-quits\/","title":{"rendered":"Gary Vee Calls It Quits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a surprise announcement yesterday Gary Vaynerchuk of the erstwhile Wine Library TV aka &#8220;The Thunder Show&#8221; and most recently host of <a href=\"http:\/\/dailygrape.com\/videos\/89-the-final-grape\">Daily Grape<\/a> announced his retirement from wine.<\/p>\n<p>So what?\u00a0 Well for those of you who don&#8217;t know Gary, he&#8217;s been a force in revolutionizing and democratizing the way wine is tasted, reviewed, promoted and sold.\u00a0 With nearly 900,000 twitter followers and videos viewed by upwards of 90,000 people a day, the guy had some major juice. And don&#8217;t forget he also literally wrote the book, ah&#8230;books&#8230;&#8221;Crush It&#8221; and &#8220;The Thank You Economy&#8221; that served as latter day Cluetrain Manifestos on Social Media Marketing.<\/p>\n<p>More important than reach, though, has been his impact not just on consumers, but on the trade and influencer set as well. While some may\u00a0 have winced at the &#8220;F-bombs&#8221; he dropped at our <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usdrinksconference.com\">USDC<\/a> last year (and I&#8217;m not talking about &#8220;Fruit&#8221;), his in-your-face, stream of consciousness and high-energy delivery reset the mode button for winespeak.<\/p>\n<p>Now the question becomes, what&#8217;s next?\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.drvino.com\/2011\/08\/23\/gary-vaynerchuk-quits-daily-wine-videos\/\">Dr. Vino<\/a> (Tyler Colman) posted his thoughts yesterday and got me thinking.\u00a0 Tyler himself caused a tipping point in wine criticism with his outing of Robert Parker&#8217;s Wine Advocate policies and everybody in the world of citizen wine blogging is still talking about that.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t have the answer to what&#8217;s next, but it sure will be fun to watch.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gary Vee retires from the world of wine, and it raises the question what&#8230;or who&#8217;s next?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[41,46,58,129,154,180,193],"class_list":["post-303","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-daily-grape","tag-dr-vino","tag-gary-vaynerchuk","tag-robert-parker","tag-tyler-colman","tag-wine-advocate","tag-wine-library-tv","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7k1BV-4T","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bevologyinc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bevologyinc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bevologyinc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bevologyinc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bevologyinc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=303"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bevologyinc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bevologyinc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bevologyinc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bevologyinc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}