Imagine, if you will, being given the opportunity to promote your humble website on one of the most popular radio shows in your state. Exciting isn't it.

Imagine, if you will, what you would do next. You would probably have a good think about what you would say and in fact you would probably do a bit of informal practice. Sounds sensible doesn't it.

Imagine, if you will, what you would say after you had finished the broadcast. "Well, I said everything I wanted and gave the listeners a good idea of what we are about and hopefully we should see a bit of a boost in the audience ... well done me!". Sounds like a job well done, doesn't it. 

PJ had just this type of opportunity last week when we received an invitation to take part in a segment of the ABC's Statewide Morning program with Tim Cox.

So how did it go we hear you ask. Let's imagine you're asking us about what happened shall we?

"Did PJ say any of the things he planned?"

No

"Did PJ let people know what is on the site, you know the funny wine impressions, witty writing and thoughtful conversations?"

No

"Well PJ would have talked about the philosophy behind winepunters surely, you know objective information from an everyday person's perspective, trying to help people learn about wine and making choosing a wine seem less intimidating."

No

"Now he must of at least mentioned the site address"

No

"PJ would definately have mentioned that there is a winepunters.com.au site that has to be avoided at all costs."

No

"Well what the hell did he talk about?!" Oh gentle punter we wanted to know the same thing.

PJ summed up his experience as follows.

"I spent about 30 mins nervously pacing the corridor outside the studio. There's no green room you know! No food, drink and super models. No conversations about how painful fame can be and that the little people just don't understand how tough it is for us celebrities. None of that."

"In I go and pull the Tassie Shiraz from my bag. This was supposed to impress the hell out of Mr Cox and thereby cement my place as a permanent guest. Unfortunately he had tried it before and didn't like it.  This put me on the back foot a bit."

"Anyway next thing I was on and ..... er ... well I may have gibbered a bit (it was a lot - Ed) .... I .... er talked about ..... wine .... actually I am not sure now ... I don't think I talked about cars or vegies or .... anyway I only had a couple of minutes (actually more like 10 - Ed) so it was hard to mention everything! Tim did mentioned lamb backstraps does that help?" (?! - Ed).

"I know, I remember to ask about getting on the program again and they said they'd think about it!" (hmmm, sounds  really promising - Ed) 

It sounded like another PJ own goal to us at Winepunters HQ but much to our surprise we got a few emails saying how well PJ came across and one of them even had "well done" in it!.

In case you are wondering, the ABC staff Sarah, Edith (the Producers) and Tim were very welcoming and professional so the coveted winepunter's bow of approval goes out to them. Sadly this means no pointing of the dreaded winepunter's finger of blame in their direction. 

On the bright side PJ furiously name dropped so at least some of the people we have spoken to over the last 12 months got a mention, but he also said "brown nose" on the wireless (oh very professional - Ed).

Still it wasn't a total waste. PJ shared the segment with Dick Friend who has developed a website called vinefinders (vinefinders.com.au) which has the gps coordinates of nearly every vineyard in Australia. Sounds very useful - no more arguments about directions and that has to be a good thing.

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