As a presenter of The Wine Show, Joe Fattorini knows what it takes to make interesting, entertaining content. But what work does he admire in other people in the drinks industry?
Joe Fattorini’s Three Things in Drinks I Wish I Had Been Part Of
1 Advertising Campaign
Howard Gossage’s work for Paul Masson in the 1960’s. It placed a love of wine in context with other things people love. It normalised what many people worry is pretentious or peculiar about wine and wine collecting. There isn’t a single aspect of wine marketing that wouldn’t be improved today by thinking “what would Howard Gossage do?”, particularly new media and interactive marketing. Extraordinary for a man who died 50 years ago.
2 A Photograph
“Chilean Gothic” by Matt Wilson. Very few wine pictures tell a story of ten words, let alone a thousand. But the story of the 2010 Chilean earthquake, the devastation of Sauzal, the surviving old vines in the Maule Valley and community renewal through wine are all written into the faces of Otelia and Don Nivaldo Morales here. And it’s a picture with a sense of humour. Matt is very probably mad. But he creates extraordinary images.
3 A Campaign
I can understand why I’m not invited to the Wonder Women of Wine conference in Austin, Texas. And it’s extraordinary that industries mostly staffed by women, selling customers who are mostly women, should habitually pay women less, rarely promote them to leadership positions while women report extraordinarily high incidences of workplace abuse. I’m ashamed to say earlier this year I heard the work of one of the WWOW speakers dismissed because someone didn’t “know what intersectionality means”. Our industry needs to do better. But I was honoured to be asked by Women in Wine London to join a panel to look at how women and supportive men can tackle this.
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