So to get going, we’re looking for someone (maybe you) who really knows how to use Web 2.0 and Facebook and blogs and social media and YouTube and all sorts of good stuff like that — to tell the world about our wines and the place where we live: the Sonoma County Wine Country.

Did they hire a college freshman to intern for them? Did they pick up an outsourced freelancer to blog for them from around the globe? No, that would be boring (plus, I wouldn’t be writing about it)

we’re offering you a “Really Goode Job” — a six-month job paying $10,000 a month plus accommodations!

Murphy-Goode is offering a six-month paid job to work their blogs, twitter, and Internet marketing campaign. Let’s stop right here and give credit to Murphy-Goode and the employee that came up with this. NICE MOVE. Seriously. Love the innovation, love the thinking on it. They’re getting tons of buzz, everyone is applying, and they have a great chance at landing a prominent wine blogger to come on and run their social media marketing. The blogger has an instant network of friends with him, and they have a jump start bringing in Facebook fans and Twitter followers.

So who is in the running? 269 people, as of this writing. The applicants submit video applications and us, the unwashed masses, get to vote on who we want to work for them. Pretty cool.

I humbly endorse two candidates:

Hardy from Dirty South Wine. Hardy writes one of the few wine blogs that I actually read. He knows his way around the Internets but doesn’t get too excited about all the madness. After hearing about the job offer, he up and flew from ATL to SFO to meet with Murphy-Goode at their event. Murphy-Goode would have a hard time finding a better man to handle their electronic empire.

Here is Hardy’s video.

Rick Bakas of Open Wine Consortium and RickBakas.com. Rick knows his way around all things Tweet, has been influential is getting Wine Bloggers together, and spearheaded the inaugural season of the Open Wine Consortium Fantasy Football league (which I won, nooch).

View Rick’s video here.

Don’t take my word for it, flip through the applications and vote with your heart.

The requisite Avalon Cabernet. This is the good stuff, not the plonk.

A vast selection of half bottles ranging from $9 to over $50. My wine heart has found a home.

If Champagne isn’t classy enough already, now you can drink it out of a can! Sofia Sparking Wine isn’t bad, actually, but I’ve only had it out of a bottle so I can’t speak to the aluminum can version. I imagine it can only get better when drank out of a can with a straw.

The Rhone Rangers weren’t bad but nothing moved me enough to take a bottle home. I did pick up a half bottle of Brunello and a Rose Champagne to sip on.

Coming up this week they have a winemaker’s tasting from Château de la Tuilerie and a tasting of spring sparklers. Wonder if the cans of Sofia will be popped.

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