Canadian Whisky: Canada’s Best Wine & Spirits Blog

Feb 4, 2011.

Winners of the first annual Canadian Food Blog Awards were announced January 31, 2011, with canadianwhisky.org garnering the honours as Canada’s best Wine & Spirits blog.

Davin de Kergommeaux launched the Canadian Whisky website in July 2010. The site features Canadian whisky reviews, and discussions about Canadian whisky. “There are so many great whiskies made here in Canada that no one outside the country ever finds out about,” he said.  “This website is opening a lot of eyes to best of Canadian whisky.”

As an original member of the Malt Maniacs de Kergommeaux helped found the prestigious Malt Maniacs Awards which he has judged for the past eight years. A trained sommelier, who writes about whisky for a number of publications, including Whisky Magazine, he also judges the prestigious World Whisky Awards. In 2010 his Canadian Whisky Awards drew world-wide attention to Canadian connoisseur whisky.

The Canadian Food Blog Awards were created by Sheryl Kirby and Greg Clow, administrators of the Canadian food blog aggregator site Beer and Butter Tarts, and founders of the Canadian Food Bloggers Association. “We received over 800 nominations for 174 different blogs in 17 different categories,” said Sheryl Kirby. “In the People’s Choice category, over 500 valid votes were cast.”

From the nominations a short-list of five blogs was created for each of the 17 categories.  Judging was conducted independently by wine and spirits writers and other industry professionals. In addition to canadianwhisky.org, Wine and Spirits nominees included on the short list were Billy’s Best Bottles, Cellar Door, The Jolly Inebriate, and Vine Arts: Wine Made Simple.

“Congratulations to all the winners, as well as the finalists who made the short list,” said Kirby. “You have set the bar for standards in Canadian food blogging.”

Links:

Canadian Whisky http://www.canadianwhisky.org/

Canadian Food Bloggers’ Association  http://www.canadianfoodblogs.com/about/