by Tom Wark on May 14, 2012
The 2012 Wine Blog Awards are coming soon.
We will begin taking nominations for the 6th Annual Wine Blog Awards on Friday May 18th. The process begins by taking nominations in nine categories. Then, a panel of judges will determine finalists in each category. Finally, the public and judges will together vote on the finalists in each category giving us the winners to be announced at the 2012 Wine Bloggers Conference slated for Portland in August.
A new category has been added this year: Best Blog Post of the Year. More about this new category in subsequent posts here.
As always the goals of the Wine Blog Awards is to recognize the best in wine blogging, draw attention to the wine blogging genre and motivate wine bloggers to continually up their game. Over the years, winners have noted a significant increase in readership at their blogs following their award. This speaks to another goal of the Wine Blog awards: bring attention to some of the best wine writers around who just happen to be publishing using the blogging platform.
Tell you wine blogging friends that the 2012 Awards are on their way and stay tuned for the official announcement that nominations are underway.
by admin on July 23, 2011
The 2011 Wine Blog Award winners were announced tonight live at the North American Wine Bloggers Conference. Approximately 340 bloggers and other wine industry members were in attendance to hear the names of the winners:
Best Overall Wine Blog – Fermentation
Best New Wine Blog – Terroirist
Best Writing on a Wine Blog – Vinography
Best Winery Blog – Tablas Creek
Best Single Subject Wine Blog – New York Cork Report
Best Wine Reviews on a Wine Blog – Enobytes
Best Industry/Business Wine Blog – Fermentation
Best Wine Blog Graphics, Photography, & Presentation – Vino Freakism
As a reminder, the winners were determined taking a combination of the public’s vote and the judges’ results. We would like to congratulate all the winners and welcome any discussion via your comments!
by admin on June 28, 2011
Public voting for the 2011 Wine Blog Awards is now complete. We had 3011 people vote for their favorite finalists and the winners will be announced July 23 at the 2011 North American Wine Bloggers Conference.
To recap the process, the Wine Blog Awards starts with a nomination period. Anyone can nominate any blog for any of the eight award categories.
Nominated blogs are then sent to our panel of judges who review the nominated blogs and determine their rankings of the top five in each award category. (Occasionally if there is a tie or close to it we’ll include a sixth blog in a category.) These five finalists are then presented to the public and an open vote is held where any individual can vote for his or her favorite blogs. This is the public voting process that just ended.
Next, we will combine the public vote with the judges’ scores, giving equal weighting to the public vote and the judges’ score, to get one winner for each of the categories. Those winners will be announced live on July 23 at the 2011 North American Wine Bloggers Conference.
Thanks to everyone who voted!
