The finalists in the 2012 Wine Blog Awards competition have been announced. We’d like to congratulate all of the finalists and encourage our readers to vote. When I shared this link on Facebook this morning, I was surprised (and humbled) at the number of people who contacted me asking why the New York Cork Report wasn’t nominated, named a finalist, etc. It’s really quite simple — Evan and I decided to serve as judges this year and as such, recused the NYCR from the competition. It was not a requirement for us to do so to judge (some judges are on the…