June 21, 2011

Another Wine Blog Among Wine Blogger Award Finalists

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Another Wine Blog is one of five finalists among nearly 50 nominees for Best Writing on a Wine Blog in the 2011 Wine Blogger Awards.

UPDATE: Check out our Press Release.

Bonny Doon’s Randall Grahm at “Been Doon So Long,” Alder Yarrow’s Vinography; RJ on Wine and Good Grape round out the nominees for Best Writing on a Wine Blog.

“About f-ing time, you a…holes,” says Joe Power, who, in his own acerbic way, posts an annual diatribe imploring the Awards’ committee to embrace transparency with regards to the process.

Step into the Light, Carol Ann

And the Process?  Each year the organizers invite nominations. Secret judges whittle nominees down to 5 or 6 finalists, then to be voted on by the general public. Public votes are then combined with secret judges’ scores to determine eventual winners which are announced at the annual Wine Bloggers’ Conference, this year to be held in Charlottesville, Virginia, July 22-26.

The awards were originally devised by PR man Tom Wark, as an effort to drive more traffic to his blog, Fermentation.  After cries of cronyism he “transferred” responsibility for the awards’ process to Conference organizers, thus allowing his own blog to be nominated and potentially win an award.

Other finalists include the following:

Best New Blog

New Ruby Press

Reverse Wine Snob

Sediment Blog

Terroirist

Vino Freakism

Wine Lines Online

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

To learn more visit http://wineblogawards.org/ or go straight to voting at http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/CNTK5P8

Actually, we really think it’s awesome to be among the finalists, and wish all the Wine Blogger Awards’ finalists the best of luck! Should you wish to vote for us, “Another Wine Blog” is the first entry in item 6, Best Writing in the survey.

Cheers!

The WineWonkette

  • http://www.anotherwineblog.com Houstonwino

    Never ask for a quote from someone when they have been drinking…you might get one!

  • GiulianaK

    Whoa there! Let’s get the history right! Tom Wark didn’t create the Awards to generate traffic—he clearly didn’t need to; he’s done more than any other single individual to promote wine blogging and he filled a niche no one else was addressing. 
    And then there’s another misstep in what you said: Tom literally gave the Awards away with no nefarious intention! Let’s salute Tom for what he’s done and not ding him for things that aren’t even accurate! Any awards process is complicated…but that’s a whole other story.

    • http://www.anotherwineblog.com Houstonwino

      That would be one way of looking at it.

  • Pamela

    Best of luck guys!!!

    • http://www.anotherwineblog.com Houstonwino

      Same to you, Pamela! I can’t think of many sites more deserving than yours!

  • http://twitter.com/goodgrape goodgrape

    One hallmark of “Best Writing” is backing statements of fact with, well, facts.  The below excerpted statement doesn’t even toe the line of slander it dances on top of it.  In fact, it’s not even well written enough to even constitute reasonable Op Ed.    

    “The awards were originally devised by PR man Tom Wark, as an effort to drive more traffic to his blog, Fermentation.  After cries of cronyism he “transferred” responsibility for the awards’ process to Conference organizers, thus allowing his own blog to be nominated and potentially win an award.”

    • http://www.anotherwineblog.com Houstonwino

      At least look up legal terms prior to discussing then sets site run by a lawyer. Kissing butt is one thing, showing your own is quite another. Good luck with the awards

    • http://www.anotherwineblog.com WineWonkette

      Ah, one of our fellow finalists dropping by to wish us well. Awesome sportsmanship! Good Luck to you as well, Jeff!

  • Christopherwelling

    At least look up legal terms before deliberating them on a site run by a barrister. Kissing butt is one thing, showing your own is reasonably another. Good luck with the awards.

    • http://www.anotherwineblog.com Houstonwino

      Definitely weird

      Sent from the phone you should have bought.