Voting in the 2007 American Wine Blog Awards is now closed. I want to thank all 2,846 of you for voting and making this celebration of wine blogging a HUGE success. Winners in each category will be announced next week.

Eric Quanstrom not only knows on-line information delivery, he knows wine. This is make him perhaps among the very best suited to be a judge for the American Wine Blog Awards. When you add to that the fact that he is a daily consumer of wine blog content and you get the perfect storm of judgeship qualifications for the American Wine Blog Awards. Quanstrom is the Director of Sales and Marketing at Appellation America, that amazing portal of all things…

Voting for the winners of the 2007 American Wine Blog Awards is coming to an end. We will close down voting late in the evening on Friday, February 16. If you have not yet voted let me suggest that you do. You’re vote could make a difference. Click the box at the top left of this blog to make your voice heard. We think we should be able to announce winners by Tuesday.

In addition to being smack in the middle of the wine trade where he has a view of nearly every issue that affects the industry and consumers, Cyril Penn is also an editor. What all that means is that he sets the tone at the most important American wine trade publication for how a team of writers will cover the issues that affect the wine industry.  It made him an obvious choice as a judge in the American Wine Blog…

It would have been so easy for Michael De Loach to simply take up with the near-empire that his father, Cecil, had built at De Loach Vineyards. Sure, as a teen and young man he worked in the vineyards and wineries but in the end, he chose to go it alone. Michael De Loach left the family business and took off into the Advertising Industry in Florida and made quite a name for himself, winning numerous awards for his efforts…