I recently received a press release from the Wine School of Philadelphia, with whom I’ve been discussing taking part in their Sommelier Smackdown event series (basically, in a Smackdown event the Wine School staff take on local wine personalities and wine pros in a contest to match up wines with dinner recipes, and usually much…
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Murphy-Goode’s “Dream Job” Winner – and What It Means for Wine
And just like that… it was all over. What was arguably the largest publicity-minded event in the history of U.S. winemaking is over, as the reality-TV-inspired A Really Goode Job contest thrown by Murphy-Goode winery has finally come to an end. I’m extremely pleased to report that 1WineDude.com friend Hardy Wallace of DirtySouthWine.com has been…
TTL & 1WineDude Make Yahoo! Tech News
The most recent Twitter Taste Live! event, featuring wines from St. Supery and drawing over 700 twitter updates from event participants, was featured this week on Yahoo!.TECH! Fellow wine bloggers Natalie MacLean, SwirlGirls, and yours truly were also mentioned! What I liked most about the article was this tidbit, which shows that the author was…
Vote Dirty!
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….