American Wine Blog Awards: domaine547 summarily rejected!

March 21st, 2008

In breaking wine blog world news, the American Wine Blog Award finalists have been announced, and domaine547 has been rejected from every category. Damn our lack of focus, proofreading, and other such disciplined habits that may have yielded different results.

We do think we have some kick-ass graphics, though, and we’re going to be giving ourselves some sort of award for having the best Wine Blog Graphics according to, ummm, us.

In the meantime, go vote for the blogs that did make the cut, and make sure that something deserving wins the Oscars of the Wine Blogosphere.

Blog post with biting commentary on such awards, intelligent wit and no bitterness — no, none at all — to come shortly-ish.

8 Responses to “American Wine Blog Awards: domaine547 summarily rejected!”

Tim
March 21st, 2008 at 7:53 am

Beat you to it, Jill. Join me at OWC to hash this thing out:

http://winecast.net/2008/03/21/when-did-popularity-become-quality/
Catie
March 21st, 2008 at 11:29 am

I want you to know I voted for your kick-ass graphics and to tell you the truth, I was really shocked to hear that you didn’t get in the finalists!

I’m tired of those same damn cool kids getting everything.
Catie
March 21st, 2008 at 11:43 am

Jill, now that I think about it - - you had kick-ass graphics, not kiss-ass graphics. Big difference and as soon as you get the two figured out then maybe you will get an award. heh
Amy
March 24th, 2008 at 12:21 pm

I voted for ya but hey I got rejected too. Come back from a nice vacation to get the news. probably due to my lack of posting lately
Mark V Marino
March 25th, 2008 at 8:15 am

I have to say a blogger deciding to create an award is a bit ego centric.
AC
March 28th, 2008 at 5:21 am

I love your graphics! they are so very cool…
Agent Red
March 28th, 2008 at 7:26 am

I voted for you, Jill. Alas. Can anyone tell me why we were rejected? We had more legit nominations (thanks to a few rabid fans, *thank you!*) than anyone. Maybe we’re not ‘bloggy’ enough?
Tom Wark
March 31st, 2008 at 9:23 pm

Mark:

It’s not so much ego centric as it is presumptuous.

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Corkage Week Announcement!:

The week of September 7th will be “Corkage Week” at domaine547! What does this mean? We’re going to devote the week to issues surrounding bringing your own wine to restaurants. Yay!

In the meantime, it would be nifty if any of you could email us (info at domaine547 dot com) with any BYO stories of your own, and maybe you’ll wind up on the front page of d547. In fact, if you go out in the next few days and decide to give corkage a try, send us a picture of the bottle you brought, the receipt with the corkage charge, and any stories you care to share. If your story is selected to appear in our hallowed pages, we’ll send you a gift certificate to d547 for the amount you paid for corkage (within reason).

And now, a quick tip for corkage etiquette: avoid bringing a bottle that is already on the wine list of the restaurant you’re going to. This can mean downloading a restaurant’s wine list online, or calling in advance to check for duplication.

See you in a couple of weeks for lots more on corkage!

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Frizzante
From Wikipedia: Frizzante is an Italian wine term term for semi-sparkling wine (as opposed to Spumante, which is generally used for fully sparkling wines). Frizzante wines generally owe their bubbles to a partial secondary fermentation in tank. You might notice a light fizz or tingly sensation on the tongue with a Frizzante wine, compared to the more carbonated sensation that more fully sparkling wines yield.

Scorekage
Okay, so we made up this word yesterday after a great restaurant experience. We brought a bottle of wine with us, expecting to pay a corkage fee. But the restaurant either forgot to charge us the $15, or decided to be nice to us. We scored! Hence, “scorekage” has entered our lexicon. This can also refer to BYO friendly restaurants that don’t charge for corkage under any circumstances.

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We’ve joined a group of bloggers (wannabe critics, some have said!) as part of “The 89 Project,” an effort to explore the complicated matter of the 100 point system of evaluating wine. Go take a peek at the 89 Project blog, which has apparently already started a bit of controversy (and we’ve yet to make a post!). It’s interesting stuff.

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