The 2012 Wine Blog Awards were presented during the Wine Bloggers Conference in Portland Oregon. Winners in nine categories were announced including Best Overall Wine Blog, which went to Jamie Goode’s Wine Blog, a blog site that is hands down one of the best wine blogs in existence.

Great to see The Gray Report get kudos. W. Blake Gray calls ‘em like he sees ‘em, and I enjoy his style of writing. His recent accolades of Robert Parker on Mr. Parker’s birthday showed class and highlighted what good Parker has brought to the wine world while others are all to eager to tear him down.

We have most of the winners linked up on our big-as-they-come Blogroll, but I noticed that Wine Julia, winner of the Best New Wine Blog is absent, so let’s get ‘er up there now. I hopped on over to the Wine Julia site this morning but some of the text was mangled. Let’s hope this is just a temporary bug. Nice layout overall and quality content.

For the full press release,click here.