by awards on June 26, 2010
In a stunning presentation by Alan Kropf of Mutineer Magazine, who volunteered his and his staff’s time to emcee the awards presentation at the 2010 North American Wine Bloggers Conference, the winners of the 2010 Wine Blog Awards were announced yesterday afternoon. And the winners are …
Best Wine Blog Graphics, Photography, & Presentation: Good Grape
Best Industry/Business Wine Blog: Criteria: Good Grape
Best Wine Reviews on a Wine Blog: Bigger Than Your Head
Best Single Subject Wine Blog: Criteria: New York Cork Report
Best Winery Blog: Criteria: Been Doon So Long
Best Writing On a Wine Blog: Catavino
Best New Wine Blog: Criteria: Swirl, Smell Slurp
Best Overall Wine Blog: Criteria: 1 Wine Dude
Congratulations to all the winners. It was quite apparent during the presentation and the rest of the proceedings yesterday that there are hundreds of outstanding candidates for these awards and the winners should be proud of their accomplishments. Perhaps more importantly, all wine bloggers should be proud to have such shining examples of success and hard work in the wine blogging community. We will notify you shortly and send you your Riedel crystal prize in the mail.
by awards on June 1, 2010
Public voting is now closed. The 2010 Wine Blog Awards public voting session lasted one week and had 1,540 people cast votes. Not every person voted for every category, which we think is good, since it doesn’t make sense to vote if you have not read the finalist blogs. Still, we expect there were a lot of hours expended on the web last week by people reading wine blogs.
Our panel of 11 judges also completed their final 2010 task of reviewing the five finalists in each of the eight award categories. Because of the large number of nominated blogs, judges were assigned to specific award categories for their initial review and this was the first time all the judges looked at all the finalists. They have submitted their findings. And we thank them for all their hard work!
The 2010 Wine Blog Award winners have been decided based 50% on the public input and 50% based on the judges. The winners will be announced June 25 in Walla Walla at the North American Wine Bloggers Conference.
by awards on May 24, 2010
Public voting for the 2010 Wine Blog Awards is now open. Our panel of 11 judges spent a full month reviewing dozens of blogs for each of the eight award categories and has narrowed down the list to five finalists per category. The public voting period will run for one week from May 24 – 30. The final winners of each category will be determined via a 50/50 weighting of the public vote and that of the judges and will be announced on June 25, 2010 at the North American Wine Bloggers Conference.
If you participate in the public voting, please take your responsibility seriously. We suggest you review each finalist’s blog and vote based on each category’s defined criteria. To vote, please visit:
http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/7CLMSMG
For those of you who are finalists, we will create a finalist badge soon.
