Wine Travel Awards 2025: Vote for Me Please!

glamping in Tuscany

Please vote for me in this year’s Wine Travel Awards! You have less than two weeks to do it as voting ends March 31 so please vote now! It’s so easy — just click here! The Wine Travel Awards provide “a unified advertising and information campaign in different countries to draw attention to the nominees: people, regions, wines and local products” with the goal to form “a friendly community of wine & wine tourism professionals created to share opinions, knowledge, and information.” And YOU can vote for ME! After the March public voting period ends, “five nominees with the highest amount of public votes in each category will be forwarded to the WTA Jury Panel, who will have an honourable mission to choose the best of the best.”

hiking in Tuscany beside an organic olive orchard at La Maliosa 

So why should you vote for me? Let me count the ways!

Top 10 reasons to vote for me:

1. I won the 2022 Jancis Robinson Wine Writing Contest: read my award winning entry for the 2022 Jancis Robinson contest here.

2. I was a semi-finalist in the 2021 Jancis Robinson contest: read my entry here WWC21 – Zinstar Vineyard, California.

3. I am a freelance writer: read my new article in the VC Reporter about Ventura County women in wine published Thursday March 20, 2025. PS Please click on the link so the publisher and editor knows people want to read my writing in general and writing about wine too!

4. I have traveled to wine regions around the world including Portugal in 2009 and 2023, France in 2018 and 2019, and Italy in 2022, 2023, 2024 with plans for 2025! Read about my visit to Tuscany to La Maliosa to learn more about Antonella Manuli’s organic farming practices.

5. Wine regions like my writing! Check out this recent Instagram post about Ojai Mountain with my review.

6. I am considered a wine influencer. Check out my Instagram to see where I’ve been and what I’m up to.

7. I write about unusual wine locations like Marfa, Texas and Burning Man.

8. I know a lot about wine — I started in wine 40 years ago pouring for Ridge, I’ve been writing about wine in print and online for 30 years including for Slow Wine Guide, and I was on the US Wine Tasting Team (for reals!!).

9. I know a lot about ecology and the land— I have degrees in environmental studies and ecopsychology, and I’ve worked in conservation biology for private and federal programs.

10. I have been a radio, print, photo and TV journalist since high school!

glamping sunset at La Maliosa in Tuscany

BONUS: I write about food and wine pairings on Wine Predator one to three times a week every week for over 10 years! That’s more than a thousand articles and a million words! With a focus on Slow Food and Slow Wine!

Slow Food Dinner in Torino, Italy

So please take a minute— literally one minute!! To click on this link and vote for me for this year’s Wine Travel Award in the Wine and Food Influencer Category “The Brightest Journey”! 

I’m currently in 6th place and I need to be in 5th to move onto the judges’ consideration so your vote really does make a difference! Please vote for me now for the 2025 Wine Travel Awards as a wine and food influencer!! 

Thank you!

love this Clos des Amis Sangiovese