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2011 Wine Blog Award Winners Announced

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!

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2011 Wine Blog Awards Voting is Complete

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!

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2011 Wine Blog Awards Voting is Now Open

by admin on June 21, 2011

Public voting for the 2011 Wine Blog Awards is now open. Our panel of judges spent three weeks reviewing dozens of blogs for each of the eight award categories and has narrowed down the list to five finalists per category. (In two cases, we had a tie for fifth and so included six finalists.)

The public voting period will run for one week from June 21 – 27. 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 July 23, 2011 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/CNTK5P8

For those of you who are finalists, we will create and send you a finalist badge shortly. Here is the list of finalists:

Best New Blog

New Ruby Press

Reverse Wine Snob

Sediment Blog

Terroirist

Vino Freakism

Wine Lines Online

Best Writing

Another Wine Blog

Been Doon So Long

Good Grape

RJ on Wine

Vinography

Best Winery Blog

Bonny Doon Winery

Jordan Winery

Notes from the Winemaker

Tablas Creek

Wilma’s Wine World

Best Single Subject

Cheap Wine Ratings

Elloinos

New York Cork Report

Reverse Wine Snob

Swirl, Sip, Snark

Best Wine Reviews

Bigger Than Your Head

Enobytes

Jason’s Wine Blog

Taylor Eason

Vino Freakism

Vinography

Best Industry Blog

Fermentation

Good Grape

Gray Report

Juicy Tales by Jo Diaz

Shipcompliant

Best Graphics, Photography, Presentation

A Long Pour

Brunellos Have More Fun

Swirl Smell Slurp

The Journey of Jordan

Vino Freakism

Best Overall Wine Blog

1 Wine Dude

Fermentation

Good Grape

RJ on Wine

Steve Heimoff

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2011 Wine Blog Award Nominations Now Closed

June 1, 2011

Thank you to everyone who submitted a nomination for the 2011 Wine Blog Awards. The nomination period is now closed and any nominations made after this post will not count.
The process from here is as follows:

A panel of expert judges will evaluate all the nominated blogs for each category during the period June 1 – [...]

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2011 Wine Blog Award Nominations Now Open

May 25, 2011

The nomination period for the 2011 Wine Blog Awards is now open and will run for one week through May 31st. 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. (EDITED: Please don’t [...]

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Nominate Now: Best Overall Wine Blog 2011

May 25, 2011

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 2011

May 25, 2011

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. 2) Should have already made or show potential to make an impact on the worlds of wine or wine blogging via its reporting, writing, [...]

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Nominate Now: Best Writing on a Wine Blog 2011

May 25, 2011

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 2011

May 25, 2011

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 2011

May 25, 2011

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 2011

May 25, 2011

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 2011

May 25, 2011

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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