Pancho Campo and Jay Miller
The shortlist for the 2012 Born Digital Awards has just been announced and I'm delighted that Jim's Loire has been shortlisted in the Best Investigative Wine Story category for 'no Pay no Jay'. Should this happen to win and the competition is very tough, then I will be sharing the prize with my co-author Harold Heckle, who obtained the crucial emails. The winners will be announced on 23rd May at 16.30 at the Access Zone, London International Wine Trade Fair and streamed live on www.vrazon.com/accesszone
My thanks to Vincent Pousson for breaking the story and to Jacques Berthomeau who gave Vincent a platform through his blog to spread the story I would also like to thank Pancho Campo, Jay Miller and Robert Parker for their invaluable contributions.
Congratulations to all those who have been shortlisted from over 300 submissions from 24 countries.
The shortlist:
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?
Best Investigative Wine Story
Pamela Heiligenthal: Has the term
‘California Grand Cru’ Gone too Far?
Jim Budd: Campogate, no
Pay no Jay
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
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
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
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
The Circle of Wine Writers is one of the partners of the Born Digital Awards.
What a waste of time and money. There are more guys writing and blogging about wine than actually buying and drinking it. No wonder this industry is going down the drain. Useless effort as statistics clearly show. Budd, working for the CWW should make you unelegible. You wine writers are all a bit dodgy. He he
ReplyDeleteDon’t forget to thank your agent, your lawyer, your publishing company, your Mum and Dad, your wife and other sexual partners and also the large body of us, your faithful readers, who have supported you through this heavy period and hard time.
ReplyDeleteThree cheers to J B for his clear win to come.
Well done Jim. By the way, have you seen the latest comment on the article about Pancho Campo's resignation on Drinksbusiness.com?
ReplyDeleteAnon. Many thanks. No I hadn't seen the very interesting clarification from Javier Hidalgo of Bodegas la Gitana. Was the initial post by another Javier Hidalgo or were they nicking his identity?
ReplyDeleteLuc. I can see that I may well have to commission an acceptance speech from you just in case Harold and I win through. I assume that the shorter the speech the more it costs!
ReplyDeleteThe speech will come free of charge for you Jim !
ReplyDeleteI even forward it right away:
“Many thanks to all of you !” .... full stop.
Luc. I didn't forget. I thanked the cat and dog.
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