How To Learn More About, Find And Purchase An Award Winner

Click "Award Winners" in the Site Navigation Menu on this website and you will come up with a list of our thirteen, consumer friendly, Wine Style Categories.

In the main, the Award winners have been assembled into Palate Weight Style Categories, as opposed to varietal categories. Thus, if you are serving a slow baked cross fillet of Ocean Trout with an Aioli mayonnaise and you would like, say, a Medium Bodied Dry White wine to accompany same, click the Medium Bodied Dry White Wines link - and you will be offered twenty-eight, Award winning, Medium Bodied dry white table wine choices.

wine-searcher.com
Now notice, to the right of each wine's name the underscored letters ws and ag appear. The ws offers a hyperlink to the wine-searcher.com website and, for many of the Competition's wines, it will tell you where that wine can be purchased, at what price, and all the merchant's contact details.

You can also nominate the currency and the country in which you wish wine-searcher.com to search. So, whether you live and shop in Paris France or Paris Texas, you can track down the closest availability of the wine which has caught your interest.

ablegrape.com
The ag offers a hyperlink to the ablegrape.com website and, for most of the Competition's wines, it will offer you virtually everything currently appearing on the World Wide Web about the nominated wine. A labour of love by its creator Doug Cook. In Doug's own words, here is the background.

"The seeds of Able Grape were planted a little over three years ago as we were studying for the WSET Diploma qualification, and realized just how difficult it can be to find up-to-date, trustworthy wine information on the web. We found ourselves digging through a lot of commercial, introductory, or out-of-date content to find a few nuggets of good information. So we decided to make a little site sharing the links we'd found with others. But soon enough, obsession set in - aided and abetted by a background in search technology - and what started as a modest bookmark list has grown into a full-blown search engine with access to more than 36,000 sites and some 11 million pages of information. The guiding philosophy remains the same: build a tool that we ourselves would want to use for wine research and learning."

Able Grape is a wine search engine not created for comparison shopping, but for learning and research. In my experience, it's one of the world's most comprehensive, up-to-date, and authoritative sources for online wine information. And it's free.