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You’ve heard of cookoffs, playoffs and at the ballot box even runoffs.  This year we’re introducing a new kind of off and it’s a blend-off.  That’s right a blend-off.  As in a winemaking blendoff between ten illustrious wine bloggers.  We hereby give you the first annual 2009 fusebox blend-off competition.

We’ve armed each of these dynamic competitors with one of our new at-home blending kits called fusebox create. The fusebox create comes with all of the components they will need to create their own bordeaux-styled blends including a guidebook, a graduated cylinder, pipettes, placemats and of course high-end Napa wines.  Participants in the blend-off will use 2007 Cabernet, Merlot, Petit Verdot and Cabernet Franc to experiment, tinker and make their perfect blends.  Then, they’ll design a label for their new masterpiece by using Crushpad’s new online wine label designer.  After they’ve finished, they’ll submit to us their final blend percentages and label designs to be judged.  On November 9, the Crushpad winemaking team will pick a winner for the best tasting blend and our designers will choose one for the best label design.

In addition to the bragging rights of being champ of the inaugural fusebox blendoff and a stylish new trophy badge for their blogs, the winners will get a case of their own custom blended and custom labeled cuvée.

That is the cool thing about fusebox create; you can actually make your own wine.  With this version of fusebox you can order custom cases of your wine after you’ve finished the blending session.  The fusebox itself makes a great holiday gift but bottles of your own custom wine would make  unique, high quality presents too.

Make sure to add these important bloggers to your daily reads if you don’t already follow them.  Let’s see who’s the best of the best.  (There are only 9 blogs listed here but two bloggers, Amy and Joe, on Another Wine Blog are competing separately.)

Tags: cabernet, cabernet franc, contest, fusebox blendoff, merlot, napa, Wine 2.0, wine blending, winemaking

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