Wine Week 4: It’s all about South Australia!
This week we look at three wines from three different regions within South Australia – Coonawarra (Majella), McLaren Vale (Hardys Oomoo) and the Clare Valley (Pikes). All great wines, and all great value – what else would you expect?
In this episode we recommend:
- Hardys Oomoo Shiraz 2005 ($11-15)
- Pikes Clare Valley Riesling 2006 ($17-23)
- Majella Cabernet Sauvignon 2004 ($28-35)
Download the video: (3 min 53 sec)
Windows Media (11.4 Mb) | Mpeg4 (11.8 Mb) | Ipod (16.5 Mb)
Cheers… and happy wine buying!
Brad and Danny
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Excellent tip on the Oomoo.
Magnificent stuff and at a price that makes you think “I get could get another bottle of that.”
January 20th, 2007 | #
Good production values but I think 10mb is a bit heavy for a download on 3 wines? Can you shrink/reduce quality to get it down to a couple of mb perhaps? …and talk more about the wines..i.e. interactive tasting.
Cheers
GW
January 23rd, 2007 | #
Nice site gents,
Have subscribed to the RSS for updates, any move to add a newsletter? Are you able to convert the video into FLV and play through a flash player on the site? Or are you willing to use youtube to stream?
Will keep watching, always keen to find a good value red
January 24th, 2007 | #
Both fair points you make there GW – this is a good opportunity to explain a bit more about the aims of Wine Week now that we’ve been going a few weeks.
Regarding the note on interactive tasting, our focus on Wine Week is not to provide in depth tasting notes on wine – there are people with much more knowledge about wine who are better qualified to do that than us (like yourself for example!). What we are offering are tips and recommendations on what is currently good value in the marketplace, based on our knowledge of wine prices and independent reviews (and of course our own tastings). So while we will quite often throw in some brief notes about the wine’s taste and characterstics, our focus is more on giving people some information on which wines are worth checking out when they visit the bottle shop. As such our target audience is probably more the person who likes wine, but doesn’t have the knowledge (or time to find out) about what is new and good value.
Regarding the download size, we’ve chosen a size that we believe gives a good enough quality at a reasonable download size for people with broadband connections. If we compressed the video clips much further the quality would deteriorate quite quickly, or the dimensions of the video itself would have to be reduced too far. Also our experience and market research indicates that 10Mb for 3-4 minutes of video is what people are prepared to download at the moment. Our aim is to get the videos to just over three minutes each, which we feel is about the right length to discuss three wines. And in future as broadband gets faster and people have higher download allocations we will also increase the quality.
Thanks for your comments, and hopefully that gives you a bit of an idea about what we’re trying to achieve. Your website is excellent by the way!
cheers
Brad and Danny
January 25th, 2007 | #
Fair enough. I like what you are doing…now I am off to touch of Vasse Felix for a bottle of that 04 Cabernet
GW
January 25th, 2007 | #
Grabbed a bottle of the Ooomoo Shiraz to go with Dinner last night. Fantastic wine for the price, emminently drinkable straight away, nice peppery Shiraz just the way I like it. Thanks for the recommendation. Is nice, is a good, thankyou very much.
February 4th, 2007 | #