Good Grape Wine Company

March 6 2009

Good Grape—Winner in the American Wine Blog Awards

Thanks to the yeoman effort of Tom from Fermentation, who organizes the awards, and all participants in wine blogging and the online wine conversation, this blog was named a winner in the 3rd annual American Wine Blog Awards in the category of Best Wine Blog Graphics/Presentation.

Thank you to those that nominated this site and those that voted. 

I’m a two-time winner in this category which means, well, that I need to make sure I brush up my site for a run at the 4th annual awards next year.

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When I first started blogging I sought the help of some really talented folks at a blog design studio called, appropriately enough, The Blog Studio.  At the time, I wanted the site to be as professional as possible matching what I was striving for in terms of the writing.  Even if I didn’t have good furniture in the house, it was going to have darn nice curb appeal.  Likewise, it was a leap for my wife who wondered very audibly why I was spending a not inconsequential amount of money to design a site for what amounted to be a hobbyist pursuit.  I brought home a boat catalog a couple of days later and we looked at $30K boats that we would use 1/3 of the year and presto-change-o work commenced on the blog design.

And, likewise, anybody that has followed this blog for awhile knows that it took me some time to dust off my writing skills that had been left neglected and confined to business communication for ten years.  To this day I still butcher the use of the possessive and write passive sentences that change tense.  And, it’s still difficult for me to keep posts to a word count that doesn’t cause a sudden bout of somnambulism, but, like life, it’s a work in progress. 

That said, The Blog Studio knocked the design out the park and most every compliment I get for the site starts and nearly ends with the design.  So, thanks to Peter and Lucia and team at TBS for really amazing work and helping me go in a visual direction that is still somewhat out there in progressiveness.

Thanks very much to all.  It might seem funny, silly, or peculiar, but it’s things like this that keep me and a whole bunch of other bloggers fired up and motivated to write about our passion for wine in a way that somebody else might find interesting, useful, humorous or valuable.

Godspeed to all and I look forward to being a part of the online wine conversation in ‘09 and in the future.

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