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Monday 2 February 2009

Salon des Vins de Loire: trophy presentation

Trophy for Jim's Loire: the best blog in the jounalists' category


Late afternoon the winners of the 3rd Wine Blog competition organised by the Salon des Vins de Loire were presented with their trophies.

Jim's Loire won the journalist category: Jim with trophy


Professional category: Julien Pichoff and Damien Bonnabel for Findawine

Vigneron / négoce des Vins de Loire: Margaux – XNoir
XNoir has been created by Ackerman-Rémy Pannier and the trophy was presented to Bernard Jacob, the company's CEO

Journaliste category: Jim's Loire


The Winners: Bernard Jacob, PDG Ackerman-Rémy Pannier (XNoir);
Julien Pichoffand Damien Bonnabel (Findawine); and ...

Some of the judges including Fabrice Le Glatin, Marc Vanhellemont (chair and In Vino Veritas), Anne Sophie Lerouge (Interloire) and Antoine Gerbelle (La Revue du Vin de France).

Good report on the Concours on vinsurvin

Also I was much amused by the comments of Matthieu Turbide on Méchant Raisin, one of the shortlisted blogs:

'Eh non, je n'irai pas à Angers chercher mon «wine blog trophy»... snif!

Le jury réuni dans le cadre du Salon des vins de Loire a choisi le blogue de Jim Budd, un blogue écrit en anglais (damned!) mais qui a la belle qualité de ne parler que des vins de la Loire. Disons que lui, s'il ne gagnait pas le prix au salon des vins de la Loire, il était foutu... ;-)

Mais sérieusement, je suis allé visiter le blogue de Jim et c'est un réel bonheur pour quiconque aime les vins de la Loire et c'est mon cas. Alors, congrats, my dear!'

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3 comments:

  1. Anonymous3 February 2009 at 18:56

    Well done Jim - particularly for sticking by your taste in shirts and not buckling to award-ceremony convention! Seriously: well done.

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  2. David McDuff3 February 2009 at 20:34

    Congratulations, Jim. Well done and deserved indeed.

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  3. Jim's Loire3 February 2009 at 23:07

    Many thanks Tom and David but I would have to say that the presenation was very low key and nothing like the grandeur of the Roederer Awards, where you deservedly won Tom.

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