The Most Ridiculous Man in the World

No cows were harmed during the production of this blog. Only afterwards.
 

I've been laughing for two days now, and I thought I'd share the joke with you. 

Last night I did an LE 2012 tasting event for my friend Jason at Keystone Homebrew. We had a great time, sharing wine and great food and talking about the regions, answering winemaking questions and generally hanging out with a bunch of great folks. 

What was funny was Keystone's promotion of the event. They came up with a silly campaign based on 'The Most Interesting Man in the World', spoofing the Dos Equis commercial pitchman. They posted status updates all week, purportedly about me, from a list on their website. Some of the highlights:

His cerebral cortex contains more tannins than a top Barolo.

He once challenged himself to a drinking contest. Halfway through the third carboy, he won.

Bordeaux imports wine from him.

Bacteria refuse to touch his wine purely out of respect.

His doctor advised him to drink more wine, because it makes his liver stronger.

His organ donor card also mentions his ponytail.

He makes award-winning Pinot Noirs…using Chardonnay grapes.

He shuns the Methode Champenoise, and carbonates his wine with a wink and a smile.

He once submitted his wine for a pH test; it scored an “A+”.

Silly fun, and I love a good gag. But that's not what I found funniest. You see, four months ago, during the LE 2012 video shoot we whipped up a silly little parody video based on the same thing. I got inspired the night before the shoot, ginned up a costume, and we shot the whole thing in one take, with a short voice-over. It took about ten minutes, plus some post-production by my video guy, Jeff at Maverick Video, who really got into it and did a great job.

We originally buried it as an Easter Egg in the CD for the LE presentation, but it's close enough to the deadline to reveal it here to everybody, and it's a wonderfully funny coincidence that Jason's crew (I think it was mostly Lou who did the parody writing) did the same thing. 

I can't embed it in this blog (phooey on technology some days) but you can check it out here: http://vimeo.com/49143041

Dude, get some Grecian Formula!
 

Stay tasty, my friends! 

 

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