Taste Washington’s best independently made wine today at Seattle Wine Awards
Lara and I are heading to the Seattle Wine Awards tasting this afternoon, where we’re looking forward to meeting some of Washington’s best independent winemakers and - more importantly - tasting some of their yummy wine! We’ll be posting updates here and on Twitter and Facebook throughout the day - in fact, starting around 4pm, you can watch a livestream from the event right here:
As an aside, the Seattle Wine Awards appear to be doing a heroic job of incorporating social media into the event, in a way that I haven’t seen many local organizations do effectively. For starters, they invited us! Biznik is a great fit because every winemaker is an independent business - Biznik’s core community. But they didn’t just invite us - The Wine Awards gave us 4 free tickets, so that not only could we attend, but we had a pair of tickets to give to a lucky Biznik community member (which we gave away last Friday to Margaret Friedman, the winner of our invite contest.)
Nice work guys - thanks for including us and I look forward to posting more here throughout the afternoon. First up: I plan to interview some winemakers about what’s near and dear to us: entrepreneurship.
5:44 PM: Lara and I wandered the floor at #seawineawards for several hours, met some great winemakers, tasted a lot of amazing wine, and made this 2-minute video to share the passion that wine entrepreneurs have for their product. Enjoy!

June 16th, 2009 at 10:14 am
Hi Dan, Laura,
Thank you so much for coming out and having fun at the Seattle Wine Awards. The video is really cool.
Cheers, Tim
June 16th, 2009 at 5:24 pm
We had a blast - thanks for inviting us Tim.