Shortlist for the 2012 Born Digital Wine Awards Announced!
The Shortlist for the 2012 Born Digital Wine Awards has been announced! The competition was hard fought – with over 300 submissions from 24 countries, including: Australia, Belgium, China, Croatia, Denmark, Finland, Greece, Hungary, The Netherlands, New Zealand and Turkey – and the judges completed the complex task of narrowing down the large number of entries to a concise and deserving list of “Top 5” for each category.
The BDWA organizing committee thoroughly appreciates everyone who took part, both as candidates and judges, and entered such great material, putting new content and judging system though its paces. The winners will be announced at the London International Wine Fair, on the Access Zone, on May 23rd 2012 at 16:30 (London Time). As the Access Zone will be streamed live, you can join us at: www.vrazon.com/accesszone.
The “Top 5″ in each category, IN NO PARTICULAR ORDER, are listed below. We are particularly pleased by the presence of so many names you may not be familiar with appearing on this list. We encourage you to check them all out and make up your own mind before the announcement of the winners:
Best Editorial Wine Writing
- Amy Corron Power: Wine Intelligence admits Bias, Ulterior Motives in “Wine Blogger Distrust” Release
- Andrea Frost: The Invention of Wine
- Paul Keers: Just Looking: The Joy of Wine Browsing
- Quentin Sadler: Minerality in wine – flight of fantasy, fact or terroir?
- Evan Dawson: Il Dimenticato: Piedmont’s New White Star Has a Mysterious and Forgotten Past
Best Investigative Wine Story
- Pamela Heiligenthal: Has the term ‘California Grand Cru’ Gone too Far?
- Jim Budd: Campogate, no Pay no Jay
- Evan Dawson: Message from California Winemakers: Stop Slandering Our Pinot!
- Carly Wray: Malbec in Argentina
- Chris Kissack: Pressure Sensitive
Best Wine Tourism Feature
- Mariella Beukers: Culinair genieten in Süd Steiermark
- Louise Hurren: Authentic wines and hearty cooking in Bucelas outside Lisbon
- Tom Florina: Contextual pleasures: NYC chic meets Corsican mystique
- Nick Stock: Preserving Home Turf: A very special part of the world
- Wendy Crispell: The Carso, They’ve got the stones to produce great wine and cheese…………
Best Winery Self Produced Content
- Iris Rutz-Rudel: Balade de Juin dans la vigne
- Gavin: Quinney: 13 Unpalatable Facts about the UK Wine Duty
- Ryan O’Connell: Who Visits Vineyards
- Brian Overstreet: Born to Sell
- Kerith Overstreet: Insufferable
Best Wine Themed Video
- Ophélie Neiman: Au coeur du bouchon de liège
- Heiko Michels: Es Gart
- Giorgia Guarienti: Wine: Got to Deserve It
- Richard Hemming: An MW student’s guide to remembering appellations
- Debra Meiburg: Grape Moments: Length Matters
Best Wine Photo Essay
Photos can be seen on the Born Digital Wine Awards website.
- Giacomo Tincani: Tie (Legare)
- Lannon Harley: 2011 Riesling Harvest at Four Winds Vineyard
- Matt Wilson: Small Wine Producers in the Maule Valley Chile
- Mick Rock: A biodynamic day at Dr Bürklin Wolf
- Lannon Harley: Rolling out the nets at Four Winds Vineyard
Winners will be announced at the London International Wine Fair on Wednesday the 23rd of May at 4:30 London Time.
Sponsors
Laithwaites Wine, Virgin Wines, JancisRobinson.com
Organizers
The Born Digital Wine Awards is organized by Gabriella and Ryan Opaz and Robert McIntosh of the wine communications company, Vrazon.
ENDS
NOTES FOR EDITORS
About the Born Digital Wine Awards
The second annual BDWA received over 300 submissions from 24 countries.
EVENT ORGANISERS
Vrazon
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