Murphy-Goode A Really Goode Job video application Tequila Mexico

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UPDATE (5/26): The video has been posted so please watch & vote!

“This job is so for you!” That’s our friend Nikki talking after we told her we were applying for a Really Goode Job as Lifestyle Correspondents for Murphy-Goode Winery in Healdsburg, CA. It’s a sweet gig (get the details here) but they’re not just giving it away. Nope. All applicants have to submit a 60 second video.

Mexico’s wine industry is growing and improving (La Cetto petit syrah has become a favorite), but it’s centered mostly in the Valle de Guadalupe area of the Baja Peninsula. Here in central Mexico tequila is king. Since tequila has an official geographic denomination, like chianti and champagne and scotch does, only stuff made in approved areas can legally be called tequila. Which brings us to the Cascahuin Tequila Distillery in El Arenal, Jalisco, Mexico just north of Guadalajara and 15 miles from the town of Tequila itself right on the Ruta de Tequila.

We figured Murphy-Goode will get plenty of video applications shot in vineyards, so why bore them with another one? Instead we headed into a rolling field of gorgeous blue agave with our trusty Flip Video camera and a stack of cue cards and our ipod and a whole crew of supporters including Javier there in the background, Carlos (whose family owns Cascahuin) and our littlest guest star, Tedeo.

It was hot, it was dusty and blue agave is brutally sharp (yes, there was blood) but we had a ball shooting our application video complete with our own theme song written by our friend, guitarist Scott Metzger, art help from our friend Iliana and post-production polishing courtesy of Nikki, who was the very first one to come right out and say that this job is so for us.

The video is finished and will be posted soon.

Until then, here are some outtakes to tide you over and you can get even more details about our quest for a Really Goode Job at areallygoodehire.net.

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