-And then there were 50. Wannabe wine marketers, that is. Murphy Goode Winery has narrowed their A Really Good Job contest down to 50 finalists. The winner will get a 6 month contract for $10,000 / month to Twitter about wine. You can check out the videos in contention here: www.areallygoodejob.com. Some of the videos are quite entertaining, in a “dammit, I should have stopped drinking so much wine and entered” sort of way.
- Gothamist has word that a Bourbon Bar is slated to open in Manhattan sometime this fall. Praise Bourbon Jesus! In fact, the bar owners are keeping the public up to date with a blog:http://onebarrelbar.blogspot.com/. We hope their soon to open haunt is as fancy as their social networking.
-The New York Times takes a look at a controversy surrounding South African wines. Do they smell like burnt rubber? A lot of wine experts concede they do, but claim it’s not really a bad thing. It’s just a quality of the South African Soil, much like a quality of cheap beer is that lovely urine flavor.
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