I am pleased to discover Vintank, a web based social media group.  Their labor of love has produced a Study for the wine industry and the tools awaiting them in the future of Web 2.0.   Wine advocates will lead the movement with their Blogs, Facebook and Twitter pages and will usher wineries into the next phase of social marketing.

I’m especially happy for the small family wineries that now have a media centerpiece to bridge the gap between their new customers who see the internet as the only go-to source of information. Good families producing great wines in the middle of the most competitive wine valley in America can now compete with the big dogs.  With this knowledge at their fingertips, small wineries can now take full advantage of the Internet.

IT GETS EVEN BETTER!  To show their support, Vintank has started their own competition following the footsteps of Murphy-Goode.  They will be selecting four of their favorite candidates and if the Murphy-Goode winner is one of their four selects, Vintank will give that lucky person $100K worth of their strategic consulting services for FREE!

I would like to congratulate Hardy Wallace and Rick Bakas for making the list and wish everyone else the best of luck on this journey.