It is with great pleasure that I announce my piece, The Future of Fermentation: The Role of Synthetic Yeast in Winemaking, has won 3rd place in the Best Editorial/Opinion Wine Writing award in the 2018 Born Digital Wine Awards competition!
I am humbled and honored to have been awarded this 3rd place prize, and am eternally grateful to the judges, my readers, and all others who have continued to support me throughout this journey.
I also want to thank Alexandra Russell and Spirited Magazine for the opportunity to write this piece. I thoroughly enjoyed writing it, and look forward to collaborating more in the future.
While I received 3rd place, the 1st and 2nd place winners of the Best Editorial/Opinion Wine Writing award were:
- 1st place: Meg Houston Maker – Toward a New Lexicon For American Wine
- 2nd place: W. Blake Gray – Please Do Not Buy These Wines
Congratulation to Blake and Meg! Well deserved wins for you both!
Also, congratulations to the others who made the shortlist for this category:
- Alice Feiring ~ Do Natural Wines Age
- Andrea Frost ~ The Consolations of Wine
- Andrea Frost ~ Wine as Membership
- Jamie Goode ~ Natural wine is a runaway train and it might be time to hit the brakes
- Patrick Hemminger ~ Nicht zu fassen
- Peter Weltman ~ A Refugee’s Quest to Make Wine in Syria
- Richard Hemming ~ The bottom end of sparkling
- Robert Joseph ~ A New Look At An Old Topic – Wine Points
- Simon J Woolf ~ The Hermit Ram – Wild Beast of Canterbury
- W. Blake Gray ~ Unique wine made from grapes growing wild in a riverbed
- Wink Lorch ~ France Greenlights Anti-Hail Nets
- Zachary Sussman ~ Wine Doesn’t Make Itself
A second piece of mine, A Journey Into the Mind of a Wine Tourist: What Keeps Them Coming Back For More?, was shortlisted for another category in this years’ Born Digital Wine Awards: Best Tourism Content with a Focus on Wine. While I did not win in this category, I am still honored to have been shortlisted among so many other great articles/writers. See this link for the full shortlist for all of this years’ categories.
If you’re interested in watching the online awards ceremony, which includes some facts about the competition this year, check out the video below:
To the judges who spent countless hours reading through the hundreds of entries this year, for shortlisting me for not one but two awards, and finally for choosing my piece as the 3rd place winner for the Best Editorial/Opinion in Wine Writing award: THANK YOU!
Thank you also to all my friends, family, and readers, who have supported me throughout the years!
Finally, thank you to the other shortlisted writers for this award! I feel so humbled to be included in such a fine list of writers, many of whom I look up to and admire. The competition was fierce, to say the least, and I am honored to be a part of the group.
I look forward to participating again in future Born Digital Wine Awards! Thank you again, from the bottom of my heart!