About the American Wine Blog Awards
Welcome to the 2008 American Wine Blog Awards
This is only the second year for the American Wine Blog Awards. They remain a vehicle for promoting the very best of what has become an extraordinarily important medium for communicating information and passions about wine. The idea is to highlight those exceptional efforts at communicating about wine through blogging.
The format is a simple one:
1. Nominations in 8 categories are taken from the public
2. A Judging Panel reviews the nominated blogs and choose 4 finalists in each category
3. The public votes for their favorite finalist in each category
4. The Judging Panel votes for their favorite finalist in each category
5. The public vote is given 70% weighting; the Judging Panel is given 30% weighting.
The American Wine Blog Awards were begun by me, Tom Wark, the proprietor of this wine blog (FERMENTATION) in 2007. A wine publicist of nearly 20 years, I've come to have a great deal of respect for those who write about wine for a living. Yet, that collection of people was always fairly small. With the advent of the blog, those who thought they had something of interest to communicate about wine grew tremendously. And though the new wine bloggers were not usually paid for their efforts, there were among them absolutely terrific minds and writers.
The hope is that through these awards and the awards process, many in the wine industry, publishing industry, many who consume wine information and those who publish traditional wine publications will come across the best of the wine blogging community.
Always educational, down-to-earth, easy to understand and very professional. My personal favorite episode is titled "Wine Tasting Tips" were Nancy demonstrates 'bad table manors' when tasting wine. A true Classic! You probably haven't heard any thing like this before. Like pictures speak a 1000 words, so does this sound demonstration. Simply wonderful and so true!
Posted by: Pam | February 20, 2008 at 12:09 PM
I nominate http://napavalleywineradio.com as the Best Wine Podcast information available.
Posted by: Pam | February 20, 2008 at 12:27 PM
I love their style of getting me interested in hearing about their wine!
Posted by: mary | February 27, 2008 at 05:47 AM
Great idea! I have posted an article about your awards on my blog.
Posted by: Joe Power | March 06, 2008 at 05:40 PM
Please nominate -http://totalinsider.blogspot.com - it's a blog that rates and reviews wines, provides food and recipe ideas, and posts articles on wine culture and lifestyle.
Thanks for all the great work!
Posted by: Wine Insider | March 20, 2008 at 05:51 AM