NZ’s Wine-Searcher.com in Line for International Prize

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New Zealand’s Wine-Searcher.com in Line for International Prize

An Auckland company has been nominated for the Oscars of the wine world.

New Lynn-based Wine-Searcher.com added an online magazine to its huge database of wines just 16 months ago, and has now been shortlisted for the prestigious Louis Roederer International Wine Writers’ Awards – Wine Website of the Year 2013.

While its head office is in New Zealand, Wine-Searcher publishes wine news, interviews and features from around the world, and has high-profile columnists and contributors around the globe – from California and Champagne to Chile and China.

“It’s very exciting for a New Zealand-based company to be recognized on the global stage,” said Editor Rebecca Gibb. “There are many well-established websites that have been nominated, and for us to be shortlisted as a newcomer to the wine writing scene shows we have made an immediate impression on the industry.”

A number of Wine-Searcher contributors are also named on the Louis Roederer shortlists. San Francisco-based W. Blake Gray is a finalist for Online Wine Columnist of the Year; Jane Anson is nominated for International Wine Book of the Year for “Bordeaux Legends,” published in October 2012; and Master of Wine Tim Atkin is a nominee for International Wine Columnist of the Year and International Wine Feature Writer of the Year, as well as being among Wine-Searcher’s five competitors for International Wine Website of the Year.

Charles Metcalfe, chairman of the judges, noted that competition for a place on the shortlists was particularly fierce this year. “We had more entries this year than ever before and the sheer quality of the entries in several categories made for lively debate.”

The winners will be announced on Tuesday, September 10, at London’s Royal Academy of Arts.

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