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2010 Wine Blog Award Winners Announced!

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.

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2010 Wine Blog Awards Winners Coming Soon

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.

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2010 Wine Blog Awards Voting is Open

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.

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2010 Wine Blog Awards Nominations Closed – About the Process

April 8, 2010

The 2010 Wine Blog Awards nomination process is now closed. Interested to know a little about the process?
Nominations were given by commenting on each of eight blog posts representing the eight award categories. We had 813 comments in the one week nomination period with a total of 331 nominations for the eight award categories. Pretty [...]

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2010 Wine Blog Award Nominations Now Open

April 1, 2010

The nomination period for the 2010 Wine Blog Awards is now open and will run for one week through April 7th. To nominate a blog for any of the eight awards categories (including Best Wine Blog), please click on the posting below for the appropriate award category and simply provide a comment. We will record [...]

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Nominate Now: Best Overall Wine Blog

April 1, 2010

Please nominate a blog for this award by adding a comment below. Criteria: 1) Should continually produce entertaining and educational information. 2) Should contain well-written prose and well produced posts. 3) Should demonstrate independent and original ideas and insights. 4) Should be of such high quality overall it can compete with any other wine information [...]

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Nominate Now: Best New Wine Blog

April 1, 2010

Please nominate a blog for this award by adding a comment below. Criteria: 1) Should have the first blog entry posted sometime during the applicable period of the current awards year. No minimum number of posts is required. 2) Should have already made or show potential to make an impact on the worlds of wine [...]

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Nominate Now: Best Writing On a Wine Blog

April 1, 2010

Please nominate a blog for this award by adding a comment below. Criteria: 1) Should put the English language to great use. 2) Should write with a demonstrably original voice that conveys a personal style. 3) Should consistently demonstrate a command of the English language to convey original, insightful and entertaining messages.

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Nominate Now: Best Winery Blog

April 1, 2010

Please nominate a blog for this award by adding a comment below. Criteria: 1) Should have done an outstanding job of using the blog format to convey the unique nature of a working winery. 2) Should have used the blog to create a more intimate connection between consumers and the winery.

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Nominate Now: Best Single Subject Wine Blog

April 1, 2010

Please nominate a blog for this award by adding a comment below. Criteria: 1) Should have as the focus of the blog a single, relatively narrow subject such as a country, a single appellation, a single varietal or type of wine, retailing, wine tourism, one aspect of the business of wine or any other narrow [...]

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Nominate Now: Best Wine Reviews on a Wine Blog

April 1, 2010

Please nominate a blog for this award by adding a comment below. Criteria: 1) Should have wine reviews as the primary content on their blog. 2) Should consistently deliver insightful and well-presented wine reviews. 3) Should have made an extra effort to use wine reviews to educate their readers. 4) Should heighten the reputation of [...]

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Nominate Now: Best Industry/Business Wine Blog

April 1, 2010

Please nominate a blog for this award by adding a comment below. Criteria: 1) Should have a substantial portion of the blog devoted to exploring the business of wine and the wine industry. 2) Should offer insightful analysis and reporting on the business of wine. 3) Should have used a substantial portion of posts to [...]

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