BEST WINE BLOG WRITING Criteria for NominationAny wine blog in existence in 2006 that has produced at least 52 posts during the year, and is written in English is eligible to be nominated for the Best Wine Blog Writing Award. Nominated Blogs should have delivered outstanding prose and an entertaining writing style to convey original ideas. We are looking to honor those who deliver a unique voice, who write with style and who wrap that style around a core of…

Nominations in the various categories for the 2007 American Wine Blog Awards will begin on January 8 and run through January 18. The Categories in which nominations will be sought are:Best Overall Wine BlogBest Wine Review BlogBest Graphics on a Wine BlogBest Wine Blog WritingBest Single Subject Wine BlogBest Winery BlogBest Wine-Related Podcast or Videoblog Descriptions for each category will be restated when nominations open. However, they can be viewed now HERE.

When I was playing Little League Baseball every year there would be an awards ceremony at the end of the season. The winning team would get an award. "Coach of the Years" would be awarded. "Most Valuable Player" awards would be given out. Then, at the end, they’d give this award: "Friendliest Player Award". The coaches decided who would get this award. I never really understood why it was given. More importantly, I couldn’t understand how the coaches could possible…

Initial Background on…THE AMERICAN WINE BLOG AWARDS Nominations for The American Wine Blog Awards will begin being accepted in early January 2007. Presented here is some initial background to the AWBA. PURPOSEThe AWBA exist to encourage the proliferation of high quality, thoughtful and innovative wine-related communications using the Blog format. By recognizing the best wine blogs in a number of categories, we hope to persuade all wine bloggers (and wine bloggers to-be) to produce high quality contributions to the wine…