So. I was in Los Angeles a couple weeks ago and the hotel channel featured something called the, "Naked Wine Show". Intrigued, I watched a quick 60 second review of some sparking wine.
Like all good advertising there is some truth, but not all truth in the "Naked Wine Show". The host, Susan Sterling, does appear to be sans-clothing and due to the positioning of the camera, her wine glass and the wine bottle her nakedness is not shared outside of the studio wherein her quick summaries are taped. The appropriate name of the reviews might more appropriately be called the, "Naked Shoulders Wine Show".Now to her reviews. After watching the first review it seems obvious that she is reading prepared notes and that the seeming spontaneity is just that: seeming. From personal experience when I taste a wine I slurp, swoosh, spit several times before I begin to get a sense of the wine: it takes time. Semi-naked Susan just pops open the wine, pour it into a glass and the comments flow like, well, like wine from a bottle.
She is easier on the eyes than I am. Her comments are rehearsed. Her shoulders are naked. All-in-all she is an interesting diversion from the dime-a-dozen wine reviewers such as - ahem - me.
~ Terry
Given the somewhat interesting, at least visually, approach to wine critique I was intrigued at first. And then just like you indicate, despite her "nakedness", she was more than a little boring and contrived. Zzzzz.
ReplyDeleteIf naked is all you have, then at least be naked, but if you truly have something important to say then I'd suggest putting your clothes on and be taken seriously.
Hmmm...how about Two "Naked" Wine Brothers?!
BJ
Nothing, and I mean NOTHING, would be scarier!
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