Good Grape Wine Company

February 7 2007

Good Grape Receives Two Nominations in American Wine Blog Awards

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At Good Grape I take a literate social reporting approach to wine and the wine industry with an emphasis on ideas—that means content that should be of interest to wine enthusiasts of all stripes and hopefully occasionally thought-provoking, as well. 

Through this approach to writing, which tends to skew more towards People magazine (if People magazine wrote at an 11th grade level and not a fourth grade level) as opposed to Wine Spectator in analogy, I was very pleasantly surprised to find out that Good Grape was a finalist in two categories of the American Wine Blog Awards—Best Wine Blog Graphics and Best Overall Wine Blog.

This is something of a shock; particularly the nomination for Best Overall Wine Blog.  Credit Tom Wark from Fermentation for conducting and managing the awards.  I’m really holding down his spot—his own excellent blog was eliminated by virtue his award oversight. 

It feels like Oscar nomination day and I’m the small budget art house flick going into the best picture category against a couple of decades worth of awesome blockbusters like Star Wars, Titantic and The Godfather.

In the Best Overall Wine Blog category, nominated by the people, selected by a panel of professional jurors and then voted on by the people, I am in some pretty esteemed company.

Vinography.com?  Alder Yarrow is the granddaddy of wine blogs, our most esteemed colleague and the most popular wine blogger by any count—traffic, influence, awards, prestige; review virtually all measurables for this blogging thing and Vinography is the lead dog.  And, he’s a nice guy, too.  Send him an email and chances are you’ll get a response inside of four hours.  He’s accessible to all of his readers.

Drvino.com?  Dr. Vino, the pen name for Tyler Colman, joins Vinography in having one of the most respected palates in the wine blogosphere.  Very well traveled and an educator by profession (he is really a Dr., too), Tyler has been blogging since January of ’05 and has received mentions from Food & Wine magazine and Fast Company for being one of the best wine blogs available.  Dr. Vino, I suspect, would outpace me in a wine conversation inside of 90 seconds, but the really cool thing about him is his knowledge never manifests itself with any ego and his writing is lucid and clear, for any reader. 

Eric Asimov from the New York Times?  Not much to say here.  “Professional wine writer for the New York Times” does a pretty good job for me.  Perhaps the best compliment I can give to his work is the fact that I serendipitously stroked him in a post last night before receiving the wine blog award announcement.  Asimov takes a pragmatic and egalitarian approach to wine writing that I greatly admire.

So, there you have it—two high-level pro-am guys, a pro guy and then little old me.

Check out all the finalists and vote for your choice for the winner(s) at Fermentation (link to site here).

Thanks and “Celebrate the Good Grape.” 

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