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These are my links for July 21st through July 24th:

• Testing 1,2,3…Is This Thing On? | Benchland Blog - An new winery blog is born… check it out.
• REthink Wine Blog » Blog Archive » Brix: What’s In It For Me? - Interesting open source CMS from IBG.
• Neuromarketing » Clever Wine Marketing - Good post about how Killer Juice is changing customer expecations with their box wine via clever marketing.
• Millennials are Supporting Independent Labels - “The future of the world thus depends on the little guy, the independent store and the niche label – and thus whilst the big brand peddling baby-boomers have been the antithesis of what the world needs, the mass label eschewing millennials will save…”
• Wines & Vines - Wine Industry News Headlines - Continuum Finds a Home - “Continuum, a partnership of the Marcia and Tim Mondavi families and Margrit Biever Mondavi, announced today it has completed its purchase of Cloud View Vineyards on Pritchard Hill, overlooking the Napa Valley….” — Great to see The Mondavi’s back.
• Bloomberg.com: Muse Arts - “It all began here,” Montefiore said. “Israel has been making wines for 5,000 years. It’s in the biblical history, part of Judaism and Christianity.”
• Breaking Wine News: Bordeaux’s Cos d’Estournel Buys Napa’s Chateau Montelena - Vinography: A Wine Blog - Quite ironic given that Montelena won the Paris tasting of 1976 with their Chardonnay.
• Wine Tastings Are Now Just A Tweet Away (Three Minds On Digital Marketing @ Organic) - “Twitter has been used by a new wine company, Bin Ends, located in Braintree, Massachusetts, to facilitate online wine tastings. Dozens of people, armed with their Twitter accounts, participated recently in the now-monthly tastings…”
• Good Grape: A Wine Blog Manifesto - “The dumbest money spent in the wine business? Wine trade commission ads for countries. Dumb, dumb, dumb.” — Yep, 100% right, Jeff!
• The Wine Conversation: Interactive Wine Sites - Some good advice about using Flash splash screens on winery websites… it just seems so 20th Century and breaks iPhone display of the site.