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Reason #3 - Winners Sell More Wine
Important Note: The shipping deadline to the Western consolidation point is May 22.
Winners sell more wine. It may sound simple, but it's true. WineAlign is a proven promoter of winners through our growing base of engaged wine consumers.
Winning entries in the National Wine Awards of Canada (The Nationals/NWAC) will enjoy increased consumer recognition as a direct result of their success, leveraging their winning status in various marketing strategies following the awards.
All wines entered according to the regulations will be tasted and assessed in a first or preliminary round. Judges will use the same 100-point system used by our critics at WineAlign. Based on its score a wine will be eligible to move to a second and possibly third round to determine the best wines in the competition. Based on their scores your wines could be awarded one of the medals pictured above.
PLATINUM (Canada’s Best Wines) – Exceptional wines among those scoring 90 points or more will be awarded a Platinum medal.
GOLD = 90 – 100 points
SILVER = 88 – 89 points
BRONZE = 87 points
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 Winery of the Year: To be eligible for the ‘Winery of the Year’ award, a winery must enter a minimum of five wines. The winery with the highest score will be declared the WineAlign Canadian Winery of the Year.
Best Perfoming Small Winery: new to 2015! This award will be given to the top scoring winery producing 10,000 cases of wine a year or less.
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With over 1.5 million unique visitors a year and growing WineAlign is in a unique position to present and re-present medal winning wines every time someone looks it up on our website. All medal winning wines will have their NWAC status displayed alongside their notes each time they appear in a WineAlign search result. That is a lot of on-going coverage.
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All winning wines will receive medals and special PDFs of the award, and Platinum award winners will receive plaques. In addition to the virtual stickers that will appear on WineAlign, we will also give you the opportunity to purchase actual stickers that can be proudly displayed on wine bottles.
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Nadia Fournier
Quebec
Nadia is a principal critic for WineAlign’s Quebec website, Chacun son vin. She developed a passion for wine on a long journey in Europe, where she worked the grape harvest in Burgundy (France), in the Valais (Switzerland) and in Piemonte (Italy). In 2007, she partnered with Michel Phaneuf, and began co-writing Le Guide du Vin. Nadia is now in charge of the best-selling wine guide in Quebec. She is also a contributor to the magazine L’Actualité, and she can be seen every Thursday with Marc-André Coallier on MaTV on “Libre-Serviceâ€. Le Guide du Vin 2010 has been awarded the best wine guide of the world at the Gourmand World Cookbook Awards.
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Rhys Pender, MW
British Columbia
Rhys runs a WSET wine school and consultancy through his business Wine Plus+ and owns a small 4 acre vineyard and winery in the Similkameen Valley - Little Farm Winery. He is a regular contributor to Canadian publications such as Montecristo, Taste, Savour, Wine Trend and Good Life Connoisseur. In addition to judging for WineAlign, Rhys judges wine competitions internationally, including the Decanter World Wine Awards. In 2004 Rhys began taking on the grueling Master of Wine program. This culminated in Rhys becoming Canada's youngest Master of Wine in 2010, one of only approximately 300 in the world.
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Sara d'Amato
Ontario
Sara is a Toronto-based wine consultant, sommelier, wine critic and principal partner with WineAlign. She has worked in cellars both in Niagara and in France, formerly as Sommelier of Four Seasons Hotel in Toronto and you may now find her at the Platinum Club of the Air Canada Centre. She is a contributor to Chatelaine magazine, and you can also tune into daytime Toronto with Val Cole on Rogers Cable 10 or 103.9 Proud FM with Mike Chalut in Toronto where she is a regular guest. Sara is a member of the Wine Writer’s Circle of Canada and continues to participate in judging wine competitions across the country. Currently, Sara sits on the board of the Ontario Chapter of the Canadian Association of Professional Sommeliers.
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