In a stunningly brilliant example of shameless promotion on multiple levels, Murphy-Goode winery is hosting a competition to hire a Web 2.0 –savvy wine-lover to become their on-line marketing mouthpiece for 6 months, making around $60 Gs. The job will entail promoting Sonoma County wine country, while also working with Murphy-Goode winemaker David Ready, Jr….
Weekly Twitter Wine Mini-Reviews Round-up for 2009-05-09
08 Kim Crawford Sauvignon Blanc (Marlborough): With those tropical fruits, this is NZ SB with a big, fun Hawaiian shirt and a sun hat. # 08 Alamos Malbec (Mendoza): Inky & not as big as you might expect, but still much more of a ‘Godzilla’ wine than, say, a ‘Moth-Ra’ wine. # 07 Wolffer Estate…
Wine Blogs: The Survey
Pssst. Hey. You. Yeah, you. Wanna take a survey? Oh, c’mon. It’ll be fun! Some of you out there might remember Tracy Rickman, who co-chaired one of the break-out sessions at the first North American Wine Bloggers Conference. Tracy is a Consumer Research doctoral candidate at Auburn University, and her dissertation pertains to wine blogs…
Notorious (Robert Parker is Chasing Shadows)
“Lay your seedy judgments, who says they’re part of our lives? I heard your promise but I don’t believe it – That’s why I’ll do it again” – Notorious, Duran Duran Robert Parker can’t leave well enough alone these days, at least when it comes to bloggers. Which is a shame really, because ultimately, in…