Friday, July 25, 2014

The 100 Most Influential Wine Peeps on Social Media (Mid-2014)

Picture: Christian G.E. Schiller and UK-based Wine Journalist Tim Atkin in Seattle, USA

The Wine Wankers, based in Australia, issued a new list with “100 Most Influential Wine Peeps on Social Media”. Initially, they had limited the list to the top 50 but eventually expanded it to 100.

Starting point for the exercise were the lists produced by VinePair and The Wine Hub. The Wine Wankers: After reviewing these two lists I decided to create a couple of lists of my own using the well accepted influence rankings of Klout and also the rankings of the second most widely accepted agency, that being Kred. My two lists not only include individuals, they also include wine entities and organisations involved in wine media. So, here are the 75 most influential wine entities on the net as at mid July 2014. .... Now the top 100  I’ve had many responses to this post and based on the feedback the list has become the top 100.  Unless there’s been a major omission there will not be any further change and the list will remain at 100… it’s a good number for the list and I think it is now very comprehensive.  I was pointed to two further sources, the Wikipedia list of wine personalities and the Vintank most important blogger list.  I researched the two links (and the associated comments) and discovered that although some people made the cut there were many that didn’t.  It just proves again that internet and social media influence is a new world of wine and many well known wine identities don’t have a strong enough presence to make the lists.  Maybe they don’t care, and so be it.

Germans on the Lists

Three Germans are on the list: Mario Scheuermann, Ralf Kaiser and Christian Schiller (Klout Ranking) or, Christian Schiller, Ralf Kaiser and Mario Scheuermann (Kred Ranking)

Picture: Christian G.E. Schiller and Ralf Kaiser in Neustadt an der Weinstrasse, Germany

Klout and Kred Rankings

So, here are the 100 most influential wine entities on the net as at mid July 2014.


KLOUT RANKINGS



KRED RANKINGS

Rank Wine Entity Score

Rank Wine Entity Score1 Score2
1 Wine Spectator 87

1 Ken “alawine” Waggoner 951 10
2 Jancis Robinson 84

2 The Wine Wankers 922 9
3 Decanter Magazine 82

3 The Drinks Business Magazine 914 7
4 Tim Atkin 81

4 Jancis Robinson 905 7

Jamie Goode 81

5 Rick Bakas 904 9
6 The Wine Wankers 80

6 Wine Spectator 904 5

Reverse Wine Snob 80

7 Reverse Wine Snob 898 9

Alder Yarrow 80

8 Randall Grahm 895 8
9 Snooth 78

9 Decanter Magazine 895 6
10 The Wine Hub 77

10 Cliff Brown 893 9

Randall Grahm 77

11 Wine Enthusiast 890 7
12 Andre Ribeirinho 76

12 Wine Twits 889 8
13 Wine Folly 74

13 Tim Atkin 887 8

Wine Harlots 74

14 Eric Asimov 885 7
15 Paul Mabray 72

15 Jamie Goode 882 8

Marilena Barbera 72

16 Olly Smith 874 8

Fabien Lainé 72

17 Wine Harlots 870 8

Dusan Jelic 72

18 The Wine Hub 868 8

Magnus Reuterdahl 72

19 1 Wine Dude 860 9
20 Ken “alawine” Waggoner 71

20 Palate Xposure 850 9

Russ Beebe 71

21 Natalie MacLean 846 8

Ilkka Sirén 71

22 Robert Joseph 842 8
23 Sip on This Juice 70

23 Wine Folly 840 8

Ana Sofia Oliveira 70

24 Snooth 835 6

Emmanuel Delmas 70

25 Andre Ribeirinho 823 8

Vincent Pétré 70

26 Dusan Jelic 818 8

Robert Joseph 70

27 Bruised Grape 816 9

Robert McIntosh 70

28 Robert Parker Jnr 816 3

The Drinks Business Magazine 70

29 Sip on This Juice 815 9
30 Grape Friend 69

30 Will Lyons 815 8

Rick Bakas 69

31 Robert McIntosh 814 8
32 Julie Brosterman 67

32 Dr Vino 814 7

John Corcoran 67

33 James Suckling 804 7

Andrea Petrini 67

34 Paul Mabray 802 8

Peter Handzus 67

35 Twe Sommelier 799 8

Wine Sisterhood 67


Wine Library 799 8

Jameson Fink 67

37 Emmanuel Delmas 798 8

Meg Maker 67

38 Magnus Reuterdahl 796 9

Jasmine Hirsch 67

39 Alder Yarrow 794 6
40 Clayton Bahr 66

40 Lenn Thompson 793 9

Wine Twits 66

41 Marilena Barbera 793 8

Simon Woolf 66

42 Meg Maker 792 8

Elisabetta Tosi 66

43 Russ Beebe 788 8

Eric Asimov 66


Evan Dawson 788 8
45 Wine Enthusiast 65

45 Oz Clarke 788 6

1 Wine Dude 65

46 Wine Sisterhood 787 8

Ryan Opaz 65


Enobytes Wine 787 8

Wine Consumer Magazine 65

48 Michelle Williams 786 9

Mario Scheuermann 65

49 Jameson Fink 786 8

Giampiero Nadali 65

50 Erik Johnson 785 8
51 Wine Walkabout 64

51 David White 785 7

Lynton Manuel 64

52 Marcy Gordon 784 8

Twe Sommelier 64


Leslie Hartley-Sbrocco 784 8

Gwendolyn Alley 64

54 Alice Feiring 784 7

Ralf Kaiser 64

55 John Corcoran 784 5

Wisequeen Donna Jackson 64

56 The Academic Wino 783 8

David White 64

57 Vincent Pétré 782 8

Debra Meiburg 64


Wine Compass 782 8

Erik Johnson 64

59 Debra Meiburg 782 7
60 Robert Parker Jnr 63

60 The Drunken Cyclist 779 8

The Drunken Cyclist 63

61 Tom Wark 777 6

Travelling Corkscrew 63

62 Travelling Corkscrew 773 8

The Academic Wino 63

63 Talia Baiocchi 773 7

Adam Japko 63

64 Jason Solanki 772 8

Natalie MacLean 63

65 Mark Oldman 772 7

Christian Schiller 63

66 Andrea Gori 771 8

Will Lyons 63

67 Grape Friend 771 7

Olly Smith 63

68 Ryan Opaz 770 7

Tom Wark 63

69 Wine Searcher 769 6
70 Wine Searcher 62

60 Adam Japko 768 7

Dr Vino 62


Jennifer Simonetti-Bryan MW 768 7

Andrea Gori 62

72 Hudson Valley Wine Goddess 767 8

Cliff Brown 62


Ilkka Sirén 767 8

Lenn Thompson 62


Clayton Bahr 767 8

Mark Oldman 62


Peter Handzus 767 8

Talia Baiocchi 62


Magnus Ericsson 767 8

Peter Liem 62


50 States of Wine 766 8
78 Michelle Williams 61

78 Christian Schiller 763 8

Frankie Cook 61

79 Fabien Lainé 763 7

Wine Compass 61


Vinogger 763 7

Hudson Valley Wine Goddess 61

81 Jasmine Hirsch 762 7

50 States of Wine 61

82 Wine Walkabout 758 8

Magnus Ericsson 61

83 Elisabetta Tosi 756 7
84 Oz Clarke 60

84 Richard Jennings 754 6

Bruised Grape 60

85 Tristan Fairbanks 752 8

Jennifer Simonetti-Bryan MW 60

86 Peter Liem 752 3

Palate Xposure 60

87 Julie Brosterman 747 7

Alice Feiring 60

88 Gwendolyn Alley 743 7

Brett Jones 60


Frankie Cook 743 7

James Suckling 60

90 Simon Woolf 742 7

Enobytes Wine 60


Jeb Dunnuck 742 7

Evan Dawson 60

92 Wisequeen Donna Jackson 739 8

Leslie Hartley-Sbrocco 60

93 Brett Jones 735 6

Richard Jennings 60

94 Ralf Kaiser 733 7
95 Vinogger 59

95 Mario Scheuermann 730 7

Wine Library 59

96 Andrea Petrini 727 6

Jeb Dunnuck 59

97 Giampiero Nadali 722 6

Tristan Fairbanks 59

98 Wine Consumer Magazine 642 5
99 Jason Solanki 58

99 Ana Sofia Oliveira 632 5
100 Marcy Gordon 56

100 Lynton Manuel 609 4

Klout and Kred

About Klout - Klout uses various networks to measure influence including Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, Wikipedia, Instagram, Bing, Google+, Tumblr, Foursquare, YouTube, Blogger, WordPress, Last.fm, Yammer and Flickr to derive a score out of 100. Apparently a score of 63 puts you in the top 1-5% of all entities rated.

Picture: Christian G.E. Schiller and Dr. Vino in Rioja, Spain

About Kred - Kred only measures social media influence derived from Twitter and Facebook. It has 2 scores, one out of 1000 measuring social media influence and one out of 12 measuring outreach, ie how “social” an entity really is. Apparently a score over 750 puts you in the top 1% and a score over 800 puts you in the top 0.1% of all entities on social media.

Here is the link to the posting of the Wine Wankers.

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