Today is the final day to submit nominations for the American Wine Blog Awards. Once the nomination process is over we will collate the nominations in all seven categories and send them over to the judges who will then proceed to determine the four finalists in each category. What that means is if you want to nominate a blog that has not yet been nominated, today is the day to do it. Links to all the categories for nomination are…

With only four days to go in the nomination process for the American Wine Blog Awards, I’m looking at roughly 540 comments placed in the seven award categories. Many of those comments have more than one nomination. In other words…"oh my God…am I glad I’m not one of the judges!" If you are wondering why this initial nomination process has been such a success I can offer a number of explanations. However, perhaps the most important reason IS THIS. There…

As of 10am today, nearly 400 separate nominating comments have been placed in the seven categories for the American Wine blog Awards. Clearly, the readers of FERMENTATION are among the best nominators out there. It’s amazing. Interestingly, the category with the fewest nominations to-date is "Best Graphics on a Wine Blog". It’s curious why this would be the case. Perhaps folks don’t think about graphics as much when "reading" blogs. However, the art of drawing a reader into a post…

WE BEAT THE MOUSE It appears the nomination process is off to a good start. About 150 nominations in seven categories have been offered. BUT WE NEED MORE. Yesterday we used BusinessWire to send out a press release on the Awards. BusinessWire is the top media distribution company in America, issuing well over 1000 press releases per day into the mailboxes of journalists and Investment Research types. It turns out, as I write, that this release on the American  Wine…

BEST WINE BLOG Nomination Criteria:Any wine blog in existence in 2006 that has produced at least 52 posts during that year and is written in English is eligible to be nominated for the Best Wine Blog Award. Nominees will have delivered an overall wine blog experience that continually entertains and educates its readers. Nominees should have brought an independence of thought and originality of thought to their wine blog. The quality of the writing, content and visual presentation of the…