Visitors and Professionals Vote for Top Tour & Tasting Destinations
St. Helena, Calif. (PRWEB) June 13, 2016 -- Four Napa Valley wineries and one in Sonoma County took top honors in the third annual CellarPass Destination Awards competition, earning accolades for the best visitor experience and customer service excellence. The annual awards competition was created by CellarPass, the leading online reservations and ticketing platform, to recognize their destination partners who rise above the rest with regards to top-notch hospitality to their guests.
More than 150,000 travelers and industry professionals were invited to vote between March 18 and June 1st, and more than 150 destinations were nominated in six categories: Best Unique Tasting Experience; Most Friendly & Knowledgeable Staff; Best Food & Wine Pairing; Best Wine Education Experience; Best Hidden Gem; and Best Romantic Destination. While vote tallies were close in most categories, two wineries won for the third consecutive year: J Vineyards and Winery, which won for Best Food & Wine Pairing; and Robert Mondavi Winery, for the third time won the Most Friendly & Knowledgeable Staff category.
“Early on we learned that peer-to-peer reviews significantly influence which of our member destinations travelers book reservations with,” explained CellarPass co-founder Sarah Elliman. “The annual CellarPass Destination Awards program takes those guest reviews a step further, allowing our guests to recognize our destinations that raise the bar when it comes to providing the best hospitality experience.”
Overall, women cast 62.1% of the votes; males cast 37.9%. As expected, a plurality of votes, representing 40.9% of the total cast, were from the influential 35-54 age group. About a quarter of all votes were cast by 25-34-year-olds, while those older than 54 accounted for 29.9% of those voting.
And the 2016 CellarPass Destination Awards winners are:
Best Unique Tasting Experience:
Robert Mondavi Winery
Most Friendly & Knowledgeable Staff:
Jessup Cellars
Best Wine Education Experience:
Robert Mondavi Winery (3rd Year in a Row)
Best Food & Wine Experience:
J Vineyards & Winery (3rd Year in a Row)
Best Hidden Gem:
Vezer Family Vineyard (2nd Year in a Row)
Best Romantic Destination:
Handwritten Wines
ABOUT CELLARPASS
Officially launched in mid-2012, CellarPass is the leading real-time winery, distillery and brewery tour and tasting reservation and ticketing service that offers consumers easy and free access to confirmed tickets and reservations, online or through a mobile-friendly website. CellarPass provides a robust guest management platform that offers wineries, distilleries and breweries an enterprise-level guest management and marketing platform to promote their events nationwide while connecting with their guests in ways that enhance the visitor experience and build long-lasting relationships.
For more information about CellarPass, contact Sarah Elliman at (707) 255-4390, or email media(at)cellarpass(dot)com. Follow CellarPass on Facebook at http://facebook.com/cellarpass and on Twitter at http://twitter.com/cellarpass to get the freshest updates. The CellarPass Winery Reservations App is available for download at the Apple App Store and other app sources, or on the company’s mobile-friendly website at http://www.cellarpass.com..
Denise Olliffe, MacKenzie Agency, +1 (707) 545-3280, [email protected]
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