THE BEST WEBSITE? WINENEWS WON THE “2012 WINE OSCARS", THE PRESTIGIOUS PRIZE BIBENDA /SOMMELIERS DEDICATE TO LEADERS IN THE WINE WORLD. WINENEWS: "AN AWARD TO OUR TEAM FOR OUR DAILY NEWS...”

"And the Oscar goes to" ... WineNews: www.winenews.it is the best website according to Bibenda and AIS (Sommeliers of Italy) that awarded the "2012 Wine Oscars – 14th International Wine Awards" yesterday at the gala dinner (menu created by chef Gianfranco Vissani) in Rome at Hotel Rome Cavalieri, during one of the wine world’s most fashionable events, curated by Franco Maria Ricci. This year the event also boasts the representative Medal of the President of the Republic, Giorgio Napolitano. The prize is dedicated to wines and their protagonists, who through their commitment, contribute to the success of Italy's winemaking in the world.
“Wine Oscars" is the prize awarded by the preferences expressed of Italian Sommeliers, wine lovers, an academy of experts, professionals and wine communicators and the votes of readers of the monthly Bibenda guide to wines, "DUEMILAVINI" (Bibenda-AIS) and www.bibenda.it.
This is a prestigious prize for WineNews,” point out its founders Alessandro Regoli and Irene Chiari, “and the teamwork of 10 young communicators, and it consecrates our idea created in 1999, when communication in the wine world on the web still had a long road to travel. We offer current news daily, not just for experts, which shows how Internet with its immense audience has the ability to attract attention also to wine, now, but it will be even more important in the future, to spread the knowledge of wine culture, through communication".
2012 was a year of awards for WineNews. It also received received the "Grand Cru of Italy Award " as the best wine website (tied with jamessuckling.com, the site of one of most prominent international critics in the wine world) and the Apulia Region "Special Award" "for wine communication in Italy and worldwide”.
Today WineNews has 18.000 unique visitors a day (on average) on its communication tools: www.winenews.it, www.winenews.tv, WineNews Breaking News, The WineNews Notebooks, Italian WineNews Weekly (English only). WineNews also collaborates with Vinitaly, the largest and most important wine fair in the world, the newspaper "Libero" and Radio Rai, through "On Wine", a program broadcast every Friday on WebRadio8 - Radio Rai.