Top Fifty 'Really Goode Job' Applicants Named by Murphy-Goode Winery

$10,000 per month for wine social media gig

HEALDSBURG, Calif., June 26 /PRNewswire/ -- The list of candidates for
Murphy-Goode Winery's "A Really Goode Job" Wine Country Lifestyle
Correspondent narrowed today from nearly 2,000 applicants to a Final
50--hailing from Los Angeles to Mars (Pennsylvania, that is).

The Top 50 job seekers represent an incredible talent pool of social media
experts who share a passion for wine. (Their video applications can be viewed
at www.areallygoodejob.com).

"A Really Goode Job," which has become an international phenomenon, will pay
$10,000 a month for a six-month contract that includes housing in the heart of
wine country. Throughout the course of the job the successful applicant will
post dispatches about their wine country experiences though social media tools
such as Facebook, blogs, internet videos and Twitter as well as traditional
media.

The Top 50 are:

Atlanta, Georgia
Edmund Thralls; Hardy Wallace

Austin, Texas
Adam Beaugh

Boston, Massachusetts
Natasha Foy, (Nantucket); Rodney Gagnon; Rocky Slaughter; Ed Wozniak (Jamaica
Plain)

Chicago, Illinois
Melissa Angio; Leena Trivedi-Grenier

Denver, Colorado
Rick Bakas (Broomfield); Adam Dyer

Forestville, California
Sue Bonzell

Groveport, Ohio
Amy Shropshire

Los Angeles, California
Daniella Bolzmann (Newport Beach); Casey Boshae, (Sherman Oaks); Frank
Gutierrez; Todd Havens; Michael Nielson (Santa Ana); Kamary Phillips; Rachel
Reenstra; Carolyn Scott (Glendale)

Mars, Pennsylvania
Dave Nelsen

Franklin, Tennessee
Randy Elrod

Minneapolis, Minnesota
Max Gold

New York, New York
Richard Boehmcke; Melissa Braverman; Amanda Casgar; Alan Chan; Nicholas
Pandolfi (Brooklyn); Laura Schooling; Adam Sjoberg; Stefanie Smith (Brooklyn)

Oakland, California
Paul Horne

Paso Robles, California
Sarah Lacamoire

Sacramento, California
Chris Boicelli; Kris Vera-Phillips

Salt Lake City, Utah
Dave Morrissey

San Francisco, California
Craig Given; Tanya Melillo; Stephanie Quan; Derek Rast

San Jose, California
Clay Robeson

Seattle, Washington
Alina Brown (Bellingham); Teri Citterman; Eric Hwang (Edmunds); Annie Lee

Tampa, Florida
Taylor Eason; Jennifer Weber

Vista, California
Anna-Marie Abel

Washington, D.C.
Gabriel Kornblah

Murphy-Goode Winery will announce its Top 10 Finalists on July 7, then bring
them to Healdsburg for fun and interviews from July 17-21. The Murphy-Goode
Wine Country Lifestyle Correspondent will be announced on July 21 and will
begin work on August 15.

Murphy-Goode is a family-owned winery located in the heart of California's
Alexander Valley. The winery motto is: "We take our wines seriously.
Ourselves.... not so much." Visit www.murphygoodewinery.com.

SOURCE Murphy-Goode Winery

Mark Osmun of Murphy-Goode Winery, +1-707-525-6204, pr@murphygoode.com