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We have now opened up nominations from all over the world, including Portugal.
The Rules are simple – nominate a wine blog – get an award. It can be for as little as one post. It must be
1) One of a kind
2) Courageous
3) About wine (kind of)
4) A blog (or a post)
5) Worthy
No goose eggs – high production values and creativity rewarded. Now, bring ’em on ya’ll!
Las Flores View Point Squirrel Colony (Camp Pendleton CA) 
wineharlots.com (worthy), dirtysouthwine.com (one of a kind), atlantawineguy.com (for trying to drink 365+ sparkling wines in 2010…courageous)
By: Joe on January 7, 2010
at 9:47 am
I nominate Do Bianchi for the most use of the name Tracie in all of cyberspace. There, the gauntlet has been thrown down!
By: Mary Anne on January 7, 2010
at 9:59 am
Oh and can I shamelessly nominate myself for: The Best Wine PR Person EVER Who Hates Squirrels So Much I Dream About Shooting Them In My Backyard Because They DESTROY My Garden?
Just a thought….
By: Mary Anne on January 7, 2010
at 10:06 am
Dr. Parzen (of course), and Joe Roberts.
By: Vinogirl on January 7, 2010
at 10:10 am
Best wine alter ego name: Finkus Bripp of Wine on the Rocks. And I second Mary Anne’s nomination of 2B and the use of Tracie B. Gotta love l-o-v-e.
By: Whitney Adams on January 7, 2010
at 10:26 am
DoBianchi, BrunellosHaveMoreFun, On The Wine Trial in Italy (Italian Wine Guy), Randall Grahm (beendoonsolong)
By: adrian on January 7, 2010
at 11:39 am
Best slice of Brunello, I think comes from Laura Gray at http://www.ilpalazzone.com ! I feel like i’m in Montalcino when I read her blog. A cheeky taste of tuscany for us americans.
By: Sangioveslush on January 7, 2010
at 11:56 am
Do Bianchi teaches you and makes you smile…
By: fabien on January 7, 2010
at 1:16 pm
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By: uberVU - social comments on January 7, 2010
at 1:32 pm
I nominate Jo Diaz for her Petite love PSIloveyou.org, and for having the coolest contests on her site wine-blog.org (where i win two tickerts to Dark & Delicious, a night of Petite and food.
By: John Cesano on January 7, 2010
at 3:11 pm
While John thinks that it was cool to get a pair of tickets, I can do one even better, and bribe Las Flores with another pair for him and someone he’d like to bring with him. (Dark & Delicious – best name for an event – ever, February 19, 6:00 to 9:00 p.m., 41 wineries and 26 foodies… Yum!) I think bribes are cool, when they’re this yummy… Maybe that’s why John was so impressed?
But… I’ve also asked (see below) for an update of my last year’s award: “Best Ever Reference to Hyemeyohsts Storm in an Astrology Post” and that was on a wine blog.
By: Jo Diaz on January 13, 2010
at 4:16 pm
I nominate John Cesano for being easily bought.
By: Jo Diaz on January 13, 2010
at 4:16 pm
On the wine trail in Italy, wonderful writing in Alfonzo’s blog, I look forward to it every day.
By: gary on January 7, 2010
at 3:12 pm
I nominate
*Tamara Belgard of sipwithme.blogspot.com
*Vinogirl of vinsanity-vino.blogspot.com
*WCWG at windycitywineguy.com
*Karen G at winebard.ca <<<Int'l flavor
*Grace Hoffman at cellarmistress.blogspot.com
*Denise Slattery at http://www.triovintners.com/links.htm#newsarchive
*Josh @ drinknectar.com
*Bean at wine-beer-washingtom.com
*Joe at 1winedude.com
*Frank at DrinkWhatYouLike.com
and
*Jon at http://www.youtube.com/user/jonevino
for improvements to a blog, above and beyond the call of duty. Each of these intrepid bloggers have left comments on my blog, thus making my blog better. For this, i nominate each for a Golden Squirrel Wine Blog Award.
By: John Cesano on January 7, 2010
at 7:05 pm
Do Bianchi: a pleasure to read, always interesting and fun.
By: Simona on January 7, 2010
at 11:43 pm
I thought these were supposed to be tongue-in-cheek cheers-to-wretched-excess awards? In the spirit of Mary Ann’s citing of Parzen & Tracie B.?
Start getting satirical, moe-rons!
By: Strappo on January 8, 2010
at 6:41 am
thanks for the toon up strapps! ya’ll get wid dit!
By: Sgt. Sassafras on January 8, 2010
at 7:10 am
you need a category for quitters- I vote for Peter Liem
By: Jean St. Laurent on January 8, 2010
at 7:12 am
I may be a douchebag but I know my duty!
By: Strappo on January 8, 2010
at 7:12 am
I was at a wine bar last night and god hit on me.
By: Why no? on January 8, 2010
at 8:28 am
1) One of a kind
2) Courageous
3) About wine (kind of)
4) A blog (or a post)5) Worthy
4 out of 5 ain’t so bad. Ok, you win!
By: Sgt. Sassafras on January 8, 2010
at 12:04 pm
suburbanwino.com – unique take on wine life in the ‘burbs with very creative writing that you have you ROFL’ing!
By: Ed Thralls on January 8, 2010
at 8:47 am
I nominate Reign of Terroir for the ‘Inverse Ratio’ award. The greatest quantity of quality content divided by the fewest readers!
Two years on and still going strong!
By: Ken Payton on January 8, 2010
at 10:42 am
Oh, your award is a SLAM DUNK. In the BAG. Count on it 😉
By: Sgt. Sassafras on January 8, 2010
at 12:02 pm
Brooklynguy brings it again and again, and DoBianchi has been getting better and better. Captaintumorman for best blog sometimes about wine.
By: Cory Cartwright on January 8, 2010
at 11:18 am
You probably need a nominating category for failed journalists who have resorted to blogging in the hope that anyone will cozy up to their bleats
By: Jan Stingle on January 8, 2010
at 12:12 pm
Or for fired journalists who are desperate for paying work and think they can get it by giving it away.
Sad. I mean it. The social order’s been upended. It’s like America is a perpetual Saturnalia. (Look it up, Laura.)
By: Strappo on January 8, 2010
at 1:59 pm
OK, do I get an award for having to look up keister? I posted before you’d launched the new awards Sgt. S. but, yes sir, on the double, here I am in the right place at last. Is there a Wine Blog That Mentions Wine Very Rarely But Uses Long Words category?
By: Laura on January 8, 2010
at 1:06 pm
FAIL, Laura.
Keister (keester) isn’t a long word. Two measly syllables. Everybody over 20 in America knows the word and has probably used it thusly: “Get off your keester and do some work around here for a change!”
Which raises 2 issues:
1. Are you old enough for wine blogging?
2. Do you have a visible means of support?
By: Strappo on January 8, 2010
at 1:57 pm
Ouch, Strappo old thing! Why so vituperative? I’ve got Sgt.S. calling me dearie and talking about derrières and now you’re asking me how I’m propped up … what next? I know what Saturnalia is after 8 years of Latin and that wasn’t in America (hence keister lacuna) and, yes, I am an adult. Is there a category for Bilious Venting, I wonder? If we carry on like this we can both be candidates. In the meantime I would like to nominate myself for Miccia Corta. Pax?
By: Laura on January 10, 2010
at 12:48 am
Laura, I proffer a claw-like appendage in friendship.
On a serious note, I think Bilious Venting would have many many worthy candidates.
And I’m still pushing for Blog(s) Most Worthy of Blogthanasia.
By: Strappo on January 10, 2010
at 6:23 am
By the way, Sarge, I got a Squirrel Award last year for most egregiously self-serving post (or something like that) on mondosapore. Since I have finally put the pillow over that blog’s withered face, I think I deserve SOME kind of recognition for blogthanasia.
I wish a lot more bloggers — many many many more — would follow my inspiring example.
By: Strappo on January 8, 2010
at 2:02 pm
My most bodacious was declaring myself Texas Wine Czar with uniform and medlas included; see photo and blog,
If I Was Appointed the Texas Wine Czar
I would do the following ten things to promote Texas wines:
1. Annex a state that had at least 10,000 acres of quality producing grape vine to erase the deficit we have in the number of acres of Texas grapes. Going from 60 to over 200 Texas wineries has stretched our 4,000 acres too far. This has forced some Texas wineries to make Texas wine with out of state grapes
Nine more at: http://vintagetexas.com/blog/?p=1192
By: RussKane on January 8, 2010
at 3:19 pm
Can I nominate a site under the “most gorgeous site I can’t read a word of” category? http://blogovine.ru/
By: David Honig on January 8, 2010
at 3:42 pm
Cookblog by Peter–lots of cooking and wine too
By: genevelyn on January 8, 2010
at 5:17 pm
I’d like to nominate Enobytes for the “wackiest Google search phrases used to find a wine blog”. http://enobytes.org/wine_blog/2009/09/28/funny-wine-search-terms/
By: MakersMark on January 9, 2010
at 1:48 am
I nominate “Wine Tasting, Vineyards, in France”
http://www.wineterroirs.com/
The photographs are awesome, as is the lifestyle depicted!
By: Sistah-K on January 9, 2010
at 8:42 am
For interminable shameless self-promotion, non-wine blogging and non-blogging period, I nominate myself.
On the less serious side, I nominate On The Italian Wine Trail for having the most appealing cuvee of wine appreciation, humor, pathos and authenticity.
And now I am leaving because it is already heating up here and not in a good way.
By: Marco on January 10, 2010
at 8:51 am
Nominating yourself? Is that allowed?
Well, why not. But it is bad form, old chap.
I’LL nominate you!
By: Strappo on January 10, 2010
at 9:07 am
750 mL (http://750mL.blogspot.com) for everything related to wine writing. Best TNs period.
By: Trender on January 10, 2010
at 9:13 am
Forgot the real reason for nominating On The Italian Wine Trail: most egregious use of knicknames like “Sausage Paul” and most mentions of the name “Zaia” in a blog. In addition, the most Hollywoody blog waht with all those photos of stars and starlets.
By: Marco on January 10, 2010
at 10:34 am
excellent reasons!
i was like, “zaia zaia zaia!? are you like in LOVE with him or something? get a room. a subsidized luxury room in a hotel berlusconi owns.”
By: Strappo on January 10, 2010
at 10:38 am
Con enorme piacere, Strappo, I accept your proffered claw-like appendage with my own equally scaly appendix! As a gesture of goodwill, may I share with you the fact that I was at the last Bonspiel? Ok, I admit it, I want you to have to look up a 2 syllable word in the dictionary…. but I was there, honest.
By: Laura on January 10, 2010
at 12:28 pm
well you throw german at me and i’m done for.
By: Strappo on January 10, 2010
at 12:29 pm
Looking for an update on my award from last year, although I don’t know if I can top it. (Best Ever Reference to Hyemeyohsts Storm in an Astrology Post)
And, I must thank John Cesano for singling me out, before he went into his group nomination. (Impressive on my end.)
My update is my Rock n’Rollers who are have mellowed out, and are probably – with me – in rockers (chairs, that is), with a glass of great wine).
Who else do you know that has this comprehensive of a list, made up of rockers who have mellowed out with wine? (No-one, unless there’s some copy/pasting going on… Oh, yeah, Sergeant Flores, that’s what would have happened with this one. No one else seems to care as much as I, because I used to be in rock n’roll radio with these guys back stage, while they were on tour.)
And, thanks for including Portugal in our world. Having just been there, I can attest that they are indeed in a world class of their own… and should be mentioned accordingly.
http://wine-blog.org/index.php/2008/11/10/lil-jon-adding-another-rocker-to-my-rock-nroll-wine-producer-list/
My image says it all, too… Notice how a guitar cleverly just sits inside a bottle… These rockers know what they’re doing.
I’m about to update this posting, because I’ve found three more rockers… I think I’ll call this next version (needs an every two year update) “Do rockers eventually fall into rockers?”
By: Jo Diaz on January 13, 2010
at 4:08 pm
I have a high school chum who blogs on a site called Beyond wonderful, where the site owner has gathered “experts” on a host of subjects. My friend is billed as the “Wine Expert” which I find incredibly ballsy.
My nomination for ballsiest self title in a wine blog goes to Michael De Loach, Wine Expert.
http://beyondwonderful.com/experts/wine/content_wine.htm
In fairness to Michael, he has been the President of both De Loach Vineyards and Hook & Ladder Winery, so he really is a wine expert, and his blog is incredibly informative, opinionated, correct on all assertions, and funny.
By: John Cesano on January 14, 2010
at 11:49 pm
Today, 1/21, is Squirrel Appreciation Day! http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/01/20/squirrel-appreciation-day_n_429787.html
By: Ken Payton on January 21, 2010
at 8:08 am
Hey, nobody nominated the ol’ HoseMaster of Wine?! I’m shocked. What kind of bogus award is this?
There’s the now classic “Vornography” to consider.
Other than that, I suck
Ron
By: Ron Washam, HMW on February 9, 2010
at 7:54 pm
Like this blog a lot. It’s relatively new, but it has a sleek design and interesting submissions. Looking forward to seeing how this sight develops. Video as part of the blog is innovative.
KJC
By: KJC on February 19, 2010
at 10:58 am
I nominate the Treasure Valley Food and Wine Blog in Boise, Idaho at http://treasurevalleywinesociety.blogspot.com/2012/01/mediterranean-cruise-night.html. Doing a Cruise on a low budget, as depicted in the above link.
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at 12:23 pm
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at 3:16 am