Now here’s a career progression: bottle shop sales person to Editorial Assistant at the Wine Spectator to Senior Editor at the Wine Spectator to President of the Wine Spectator to Proprietor of his own publishing house. Those are just the step by step highlights of Greg Walter’s career that most folks would raise their eyebrows at because the words "Wine Spectator"(where he spent 14 years helping to build it into the benchmark for wine publishing it is today) are located…

First, it’s important that I thank everyone who took the time to nominate the various blogs. I have to thank the judges (more on them below) who looked over all the blogs nominated in each category and came back with their finalist. That was a lot of work. On with it… CLICK HERE TO VOTE IN THE 2007 AMERICAN WINE BLOG AWARDS(you can also click on the graphics on the top left of this page) You will only be able…

We are only a few days away from announcing the finalists in each of the seven American Wine Blog Awards categories. I’m thinking early next week at the latest. The judges have all informed me that the process of looking through all the nominated blogs has been a great experience for them. While each of them is very familiar with the blog format and wine blogs, none of them had taken the opportunity to delve into the world of wine…

The Nomination process for the 2007 American Wine Blog Awards is over. We now move on to the judging phase. We will not be revealing the judges until after the process for the obvious reasons. What the judges will do is look at the various nominations in each of the seven categories. The will evaluate them on the same criteria we offered for the nomination process. Together they will deliver 4 Finalists in each category. Before the nominations are sent…