Our team at Michael’s Wine Cellar is honored to be recognized in Wine-Searcher’s Inaugural Retailer Awards!

Michael’s Wine Cellar received the following awards in December 2017: 

SILVER 2017 ~ European List in Florida
SILVER 2017 ~ French List in Florida

The new award provide allows Wine-Searcher to recognize independent merchants and stores who sell the best selection of wine representative of a particular region. 

Using Wine-Searcher’s global database of 9,804,213 offers from 22,428 stores, the program identified those with ranges that best represent specific wine regions. These awards recognize price lists that Wine-Searcher consider excellent in addition to the quality of the wines, the wine regions represented and the variety of vintages stocked.

The winners were calculated using the following factors:
• Stores must have a Merchant Star Rating of or above.
• Stores must have been listed with Wine-Searcher for at least a year.
• There must be a minimum of 15 wines to represent a particular wine region.
• Each wine must have an aggregated critics’ score of 80 points or above.

These awards recognize independent merchants and stores, and Michael’s Wine Cellar is featured is pleased to be featured! We hope you’ll visit our retail shop in Sarasota soon, and shop regularly online.