About the Best of WineTasting.com

The Best of WineTasting.com was born with the idea to give wine lovers throughout each region a chance to voice their opinions on their personal “Best” choices for everything wine country related. The program has evolved over the years, and hopefully, with a lot of input from our readers, we’ve been able to make it better and better.

The Best of WineTasting.com was born with the idea to give wine lovers throughout each region a chance to voice their opinions on their personal “Best” choices for everything wine country related. The program has evolved over the years, and hopefully, with a lot of input from our readers, we’ve been able to make it better and better.

How the Voting Process Works

The voting for Monterey and Carmel’s Best of WineTasting.com is conducted in a two-round process. The first round occurs in the month of December with open write-in nominations taking place. In addition, to open write-ins, selected past winners are also listed to make selecting them easier. As more and more nominations come in, the most written-in entities become automatically selectable and listed among the past winners. This makes it easier and easier for people to cast their nominations. Write-in nominations continue to be open until the end of the month.

As the nomination period in the first round comes to a close at the end of December, shortly after, the second round opens with the top nominees in each category being selectable in this final round of voting during the month of January. Write-in nominations are no longer available, and voters are open to select their favorites from among those that are listed.

The final winners are posted online in February at WineTasting.com

We hope you enjoy! And we hope you cast your vote for the Best of Monterey and Carmel wineries in December and again in January!