2016 Digital Wine Awards Winners

Best Investigative/ Journalistic Wine Story

Winner:
W. Blake Gray – Where do Supermarket Wines Come from?

2nd place:
Gaia Pianigiani – They Feast on the Vines of Chianti, the Swine 

3rd place:
Alder Yarrow – Nimby in Napa

Best editorial/opinion wine writing

Winner:
Felicity Carter – In praise of wine wankers

2nd place:
Richard Hemming MW – Carcavelos: The Forgotten Fortified

3rd place:
Wink Lorch – Don't Supersize My Wine Glass

Best Tourism Content with a Focus on Wine 

Winner:
Amanda Barnes – A guide to Ica: Dipping into Peru's wine lands

2nd place:
Giampiero Nadali – La Valle dei Palmenti
3rd place:Dániel Ercsey – Naoussa – On the trail of Alexander the Great and Xinomavro

Best wine video

Winner:
Françoise Roure (BIVB) – Les Climats de Chablis vus du ciel

2nd place:
Dina Mande – The Oak Cooperage

3rd place:
Susanna de Alonso Cuenllas – Con La Guía Pénin

Best wine photo

Winner:
Colin Hampden White – Didier Depond

2nd place:
Arpád Pintér – Mézes-mály vineyard (Work in Progress)

3rd place:
Alexandre Rotenberg – Vineyards in Barbaresco, Italy

Many congratulations to all the 2016 winners  

More details here.

2016 Born Digital Awards – details with 7th July as closing date

The Born Digital Wine Awards, brought to you by Wine in Moderation:

·      focus is on the content the audience experience when they are reading

·      are decided by an international panel of respected judges representing    the diverse world of wine and publishing

·      value great content in 6 different languages

·      believes that quality and responsible content contributes to a shared Culture of Wine

2016 Key Dates

• Submissions Open: 1st June
• Submissions Close: 7th July
• Shortlist Announced: October
• Winners Announced: November

Categories

Best Investigative / Journalistic Wine Story

Best Editorial / Opinion Wine Writing

Best Tourism Content with a Focus on Wine

Best Wine Themed Video

Best Wine Photo

Responsibility Prize

A prize for the entry in ANY category that best promotes the Culture of Wine and demonstrates the message of Responsibility & Moderation

More details: http://borndigitalwineawards.com/

#Born Digital Awards #DWCC15: winners of the 2015 Born Digital Awards

 

 

Simon Woolf with his trophy

The winners of the 2015 Born Digital Awards, which are multi-lingual, were announced at the Digital Wine Communications Conference (DWCC) at the Gala Dinner in Plodiv on Saturday night.  It was good to hear that the chief sponsor of the award, Wine In Moderation, intend to grow these awards.

Many congratulations to the winners and to those shortlisted: 

 

Best Editorial / Opinion Wine Writing

2015 Winner

Cornelissen's way - making wine without sulphur

Simon Woolf

Runner Up

The Three Wine Events That Won't Occur in 2015

Wink Lorch

  2nd Runner Up

Madeira quake

Matt Walls

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Best Investigative / Journalistic Wine Story

2015 Winner

Do "hand-picked" grapes mean better wine?

Erika Szymanski

Runner Up

Do You Need to Worry About Arsenic in Your Wine?

Alder Yarrow

2nd Runner Up

The Effects of Climate Change on The Global Wine Industry

Becca Yeamans-Irwin

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Best Tourism Content with a Focus on Wine

2015 Winner

Austria: The Wine Lover's Dream Destination

Alder Yarrow

Runner up

Real Men Don't Wear Ponchos

Louise Hurren

2nd Runner up

Re-birth, Re-match, Re-think: Wines of Argentina

Sophie McLean

2nd Runner Up

Œnotourisme : escale à Marlborough en Nouvelle-Zélande

Pauline Versace

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Best Wine Themed Video

2015 Winner 

Lisa Mattson: Cab Wars: The Fruit Strikes   

Runner up

François Desperriers: Pommard

2nd Runner Up

Helena Nicklin

Winebird's Vinalogy: Tempranillo

 

Unfortunately few at DWCC15 appeared to notice the irony that Moët, as one of the award's sponsors, provided the Champagne for the reception before the start of the DWCC15 Gala Dinner in the very week that the Champenoise failed in their attempt to extinguish Champagne Jayne. 

I politely declined and opted for something else – rarely has sparkling mineral water tasted so good!