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hi i'm molly wood and welcome to the buzz report the show about the tech news that everybody's talking about this week a special report on something that's got buzzed and gives buzz wine on the internet young hipster types are drinking more wine these days according to the wine market Council wine consumption among the Millennials was up forty six percent in 2008 which makes sense because a huge chunk of them probably turned 21 in 2008 but still they're starting young and consumption among Gen Xers was up 23 percent overall wine consumption up sixteen percent beer was down seven percent and spirits were down 15 so wine it's a thing and if there's a thing out there and young people are doing it you can bet the Internet is involved and it is from wine social networks and there are many to multiple wine-related online shows to wine iphone apps wine online is where it's at in fact Gary Vaynerchuk of wine library TV has people buying wine via Twitter with his wine library daily feet oh and he got a book deal a big one wine is more accessible more available more hip and more dot-com e than ever before so I thought what better way to dive on into the world of wine online then to strapon my booth and shoes and head over to a little party called wine two point oh so i'm here with smoke wall and who's the chairman of 120 and i really have one major question what is two point O about wine what is two point O about wine a trick question so once all right so if your point is that for about 5,000 years humans have been drinking wine what's two point O about it is today we have all these different tools and ways to connect and learn about wine on the web its social networks and we have thousands of new wineries that didn't exist five years ago so the combination of the new technology and the new wineries great the 20 aspect so now what do you think is the most promising technology in terms of you know building wine awareness that kind of thing I think really just the the social networking right now the social media that's out there is giving the small wine producers the ability to do anything and connect with anyone anywhere the scale of that type of marketing is better than anything that they could pay for so I'm a guest of host here of cnet smoke Wallin with point2 foam and we're going to do this blind tasting so I thought we would oh I'm going to hook up the camera woman I'm sorry so here we go what are you pouring Laura I have the best Bloody Mary mixes in the world and everyone tonight is agreed with me they don't know where to go but but Laura it's a wine tasting so you have a Bloody Mary there that's awesome it's very good so at what point did it make sense to you to let someone else take over your show I think it was about the fifth or sixth glass of wine actually it's my hop in there yeah oh yeah I think I still have a headache from that party I love wine on the internet and that's the bus report for this week everyone I'm Molly wooden thanks for watching this is smoke with wine 20 and I've taken over cnet TV