I really appreciate the effort Tom Wark put into the creating and driving the Wine Blogger Awards.  I hope we can carry it out in a way that doesn't disrespect what he started.

As a display of my appreciation, I will from now on be informally referring to the Wine Blogger Awards as "The Warkies".  I hope you'll all join me in working on continually improving The Warkies (yes, the criticism of the Warkies of the past have helped and will continue to help as well).

Tom Wark - Thank you for giving the community the Warkies!  Cheers!