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
	Ralph 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	Ralph 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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