Wine writers are invited to enter the 3rd Annual South African Wine Writers Award.

The award will be presented by the Franschhoek Wine Valley Tourist Association (FWVTA) at the Franschhoek Literary Festival in May this year.

This award was initiated in 2009 as an acknowledgement to the art of wine writing in South Africa. The R25 000 cash prize, and a custom-made artwork, was won last year by Tim James, and by Joanne Gibson in 2009.

This year, the wine writing community of South Africa is again invited to submit one wine-related article per journalist, written and published during 2010, which will be anonymously judged by a panel of local and international independent judges. The judges for this year are South African author and journalist Martie Retief-Meiring, author and US Wine critic Jay McInerney and France-based Andrew Jefford, who was International Wine Columnist of the Year at the Louis Roederer Awards 2010.