(PRWEB) - Online wine retailer Naked Wines is launching a search for the UK’s most talented unknown winemakers, to take part in the UK leg of their new, consumer-powered, global wine competition called The $1million Zero to Hero Wine Awards. The winning UK winemaker will secure a £50K listing on Naked Wines and they’ll also be entered into the global final against producers from France, Spain, Chile, Argentina and Australia, with a chance to win an overall $500,000 investment contract. Naked Wines is also recruiting hundreds of UK wine drinkers to sit on the judging panel and get paid to drink wine – with the chance to win an all-expenses-paid round-the-world trip to the six winning vineyards worth £50K.