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Reason #2 - Winners Sell More Wine!
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 World Wine Awards of Canada (The Worlds/WWAC) 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. High scoring wines 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.
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. The results are fully integrated into the WineAlign website, creating a lasting virtual medal for all winning participants. All medal winning wines will have their WWAC status displayed alongside their notes each time they appear in a WineAlign search result. That is a lot of on-going coverage.
All wines will be added to the WineAlign database with a high-quality bottle image. Award winning wines will also receive a professional, blind review, many in both French and English. In fact, if the winning wine is tagged as available in the Quebec market we do our best to ensure it gets a professional review in French.
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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Find out more about the World Wine Awards of Canada. En français: Grand prix canadien des vins du monde
Other reasons to enter:
Reason #1 - New and Improved
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John Szabo, MS
Ontario
John is Canada's first Master Sommelier. He's a partner and principal critic for WineAlign and authors the bi-monthly Vintages Buyer's Guide. John is wine editor for Toronto’s CityBites Magazine and his freelance work has been seen in numerous publications. He is author of Sommelier Management used by the Canadian Association of Professional Sommeliers, and of Pairing Food and Wine For Dummies. John also designs wine programs, teaches, speaks, judges and travels around the world, and to round out his experience and get closer to the land, he also owns a small vineyard in Eger, Hungary, the J&J Eger Wine Co. These days you'll find him climbing volcanoes.
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Treve Ring
British Columbia
Treve is the national managing editor, principal critic and partner at WineAlign, executive editor at Gismondi On Wine, contributing editor for MONTECRISTO Magazine, DRINK editor for EAT Magazine, BC regional editor and senior travel correspondent for SIP Northwest Magazine, wine editor for Scout Magazine, senior columnist for CIDERCRAFT Magazine and co-founder of Cru Consultancy. Treve received her Sommelier Diploma from the International Sommelier Guild, and Diploma from the Wine & Spirit Education Trust. Along the way she has become a French Wine Scholar, a certified Sherry Educator, a Wine Location Specialist, and is currently completing certification with the Society of Wine Educators. She was a contributing author for the award-winning book, “Island Wineries of British Columbiaâ€, published in early 2011 (revised 2013) and consulting contributor to Maclean's Wine in Canada (2013).
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Bill Zacharkiw
Quebec
Bill began his wine journey as a restaurant owner in Montreal. A few years later, he became head sommelier at one of Quebec's top restaurants. His writing career began in 2004 with the The Caveman’s Wine Blog, one of the internet’s first. For the last 5 years, Bill has been the weekly wine writer for the Montreal Gazette. His articles are carried across Canada via National Post.com and other newspapers, making him one of Canada’s most widely read wine writers. Bill can be heard on CHOM FM (Montreal) every Friday morning to chat about Wine that Rocks. He is now also a principal critic & partner at WineAlign & Chacun son Vin.
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