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This site was listed as one of the Top 100 Wine Blogs:
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Our Scoop the Spectator contest was mentioned on Palate Press:
"Bob Dwyer, a Massachusetts-based wine blogger, has created the coolest parlor game in wine, and for once it’s a wine contest that does not involve blind tasting.
I used to think the entire concept of a Top 100 list was silly. This year, mine was the first guess on Dwyer’s site."
The Worcester Telegram & Gazette reached out for a quote on the expansion of the number of licenses each retailer in MA can hold:
"Robert P. Dwyer of Wellesley, who blogs about wine at the www.wellesleywinepress.com, calls the state’s liquor laws bizarre and favors a wider availability of wine. For consumers, it would be more convenient to be able to buy wine at a supermarket while shopping for food, he said."
“You have this strange exclusion of wine, which in Europe is considered a grocery item,” said Mr. Dwyer. “Here it’s considered the demon rum.”
Wine Spectator picked up on our 2011 Scoop the Spectator contest with these remarks:
"trying to predict the annual Wine of the Year is a popular parlor game among enophiles. This year, blogger Wellesley Wine Press held a contest, with New York wine retailer Grapes the Wine Co. awarding a prize of a Kindle Fire e-reader to the first commenter to correctly guess this year's top wine before it was announced. Unfiltered was impressed with the number of Top 10 wines prognosticated by Wellesley's readers. "Senelwine" guessed Château de St.-Cosme Gigondas 2009, our No. 10 wine, "Mike M" guessed Quinta do Vallado Touriga Nacional Douro 2008, our No. 7 wine, "James Z" guessed Baer Ursa Columbia Valley 2008, our No. 6 wine, and "RichardPF" nailed it, winning the Kindle, and the respect of his wine-loving peers. Looks like Wellesley's readers know their wine."
Boston's CBS affiliate WBZ-TV stopped by to discuss why wineries still can't ship wine directly to MA consumers more than a year after courts ruled they should be able to.
WBUR, Boston's NPR news station, did an audio interview with me for a piece discussing MA Question 1: Repealing the Alcohol Sales Tax.
The Chicago Tribune's Bill Daley mentioned the site in Rosé: A wine for more seasons. I said "For me, they're like pumpkin spice coffee drinks: best enjoyed early in the season". Bill also gave the site a shout-out for a piece the Capitol Case Club contributed about restaurant wine service. I thought it was a great example of how print wine writers can effectively engage wine bloggers.
The nice folks at Foodista, The Cooking Encyclopedia Everyone Can Edit, named this site Wine Blog of the Day for this entry featuring GoBYO. Thanks!
Budget Bacchus named this site Wine Blog of the Week. Check 'em out!
Boston University wine educator Stacy Woods mentioned this site alongside wine blogging powerhouses Vinography and Fermentation. Wow- that's great company to be in! Thanks- I appreciate it.
WBZ-TV, the Boston CBS affiliate, interviewed me about Massachusetts wine shipping laws. It was kind of surreal having a camera crew in our kitchen but we enjoyed it! Check it out:
Wine Enthusiast Magazine called me a "wine accessory guru". Thanks! I appreciate it.
I submitted a piece on Shady Shelf Talkers to Palate Press that was published in its inaugural edition.
This site has been ranked as high as the #1 on PostRank. PostRank dynamically ranks the "influence" of blogs and individual posts within each blog. Read more about how PostRank works in an interview I did with them here. Have a look at this picture from a high water mark for the WWP:
The Wellesley Wine Press was named Wine Blog of the Month by RJ's Wine Blog. Thanks! I am honored. RJ is a really helpful guy with particular strength in the wines of Napa.
NPR's Public Radio Kitchen linked to my pieces on "Syrah: The Steroids of the Pinot Noir World" and "Watching the Wine Community Rumble". Thanks for that! I am humbled, and I feel just a little bit like the Car Talk guys do when they say "
And even though Roger Clemens stabs his radio with a syringe whenever he hears us say it, this is NPR: National Public Radio."
The Boston Globe's website has been linking to my recent entries as part of their expanded local coverage including Wellesley. I truly appreciate that as it has driven a lot of local traffic to this site.
It was really nice of Thomas Matthews, Executive Editor of Wine Spectator to leave a comment and then check back and answer some questions I had. Awesome guy! Check it out here. And here.
Thanks to The Boston Globe for including The Wellesley Wine Press in their list of local blogs in the Food & Drink section. Check it out here.
The Wellesley Wine Press was just added to http://wine.alltop.com. Alltop is an interesting topical take on sorting through the best sites on the Internet- check it out and see which sites are listed for topics you're most interested in.
http://alawine.com/wine-blog-rankings.html
Our Scoop the Spectator contest was mentioned on Palate Press:
"Bob Dwyer, a Massachusetts-based wine blogger, has created the coolest parlor game in wine, and for once it’s a wine contest that does not involve blind tasting.
I used to think the entire concept of a Top 100 list was silly. This year, mine was the first guess on Dwyer’s site."
The Worcester Telegram & Gazette reached out for a quote on the expansion of the number of licenses each retailer in MA can hold:
"Robert P. Dwyer of Wellesley, who blogs about wine at the www.wellesleywinepress.com, calls the state’s liquor laws bizarre and favors a wider availability of wine. For consumers, it would be more convenient to be able to buy wine at a supermarket while shopping for food, he said."
“You have this strange exclusion of wine, which in Europe is considered a grocery item,” said Mr. Dwyer. “Here it’s considered the demon rum.”
Wine Spectator picked up on our 2011 Scoop the Spectator contest with these remarks:
"trying to predict the annual Wine of the Year is a popular parlor game among enophiles. This year, blogger Wellesley Wine Press held a contest, with New York wine retailer Grapes the Wine Co. awarding a prize of a Kindle Fire e-reader to the first commenter to correctly guess this year's top wine before it was announced. Unfiltered was impressed with the number of Top 10 wines prognosticated by Wellesley's readers. "Senelwine" guessed Château de St.-Cosme Gigondas 2009, our No. 10 wine, "Mike M" guessed Quinta do Vallado Touriga Nacional Douro 2008, our No. 7 wine, "James Z" guessed Baer Ursa Columbia Valley 2008, our No. 6 wine, and "RichardPF" nailed it, winning the Kindle, and the respect of his wine-loving peers. Looks like Wellesley's readers know their wine."
Boston's CBS affiliate WBZ-TV stopped by to discuss why wineries still can't ship wine directly to MA consumers more than a year after courts ruled they should be able to.
WBUR, Boston's NPR news station, did an audio interview with me for a piece discussing MA Question 1: Repealing the Alcohol Sales Tax.
The Chicago Tribune's Bill Daley mentioned the site in Rosé: A wine for more seasons. I said "For me, they're like pumpkin spice coffee drinks: best enjoyed early in the season". Bill also gave the site a shout-out for a piece the Capitol Case Club contributed about restaurant wine service. I thought it was a great example of how print wine writers can effectively engage wine bloggers.
The nice folks at Foodista, The Cooking Encyclopedia Everyone Can Edit, named this site Wine Blog of the Day for this entry featuring GoBYO. Thanks!
Budget Bacchus named this site Wine Blog of the Week. Check 'em out!
Boston University wine educator Stacy Woods mentioned this site alongside wine blogging powerhouses Vinography and Fermentation. Wow- that's great company to be in! Thanks- I appreciate it.
WBZ-TV, the Boston CBS affiliate, interviewed me about Massachusetts wine shipping laws. It was kind of surreal having a camera crew in our kitchen but we enjoyed it! Check it out:
Wine Enthusiast Magazine called me a "wine accessory guru". Thanks! I appreciate it.
I submitted a piece on Shady Shelf Talkers to Palate Press that was published in its inaugural edition.
This site has been ranked as high as the #1 on PostRank. PostRank dynamically ranks the "influence" of blogs and individual posts within each blog. Read more about how PostRank works in an interview I did with them here. Have a look at this picture from a high water mark for the WWP:
The Wellesley Wine Press was named Wine Blog of the Month by RJ's Wine Blog. Thanks! I am honored. RJ is a really helpful guy with particular strength in the wines of Napa.
NPR's Public Radio Kitchen linked to my pieces on "Syrah: The Steroids of the Pinot Noir World" and "Watching the Wine Community Rumble". Thanks for that! I am humbled, and I feel just a little bit like the Car Talk guys do when they say "
And even though Roger Clemens stabs his radio with a syringe whenever he hears us say it, this is NPR: National Public Radio."
The Boston Globe's website has been linking to my recent entries as part of their expanded local coverage including Wellesley. I truly appreciate that as it has driven a lot of local traffic to this site.
It was really nice of Thomas Matthews, Executive Editor of Wine Spectator to leave a comment and then check back and answer some questions I had. Awesome guy! Check it out here. And here.
Thanks to The Boston Globe for including The Wellesley Wine Press in their list of local blogs in the Food & Drink section. Check it out here.
The Wellesley Wine Press was just added to http://wine.alltop.com. Alltop is an interesting topical take on sorting through the best sites on the Internet- check it out and see which sites are listed for topics you're most interested in.
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8 comments:
Sorry to hear about your awful experience with the Panther Creek. We bought a few bottles while we were out in the Willamette Valley in March (although I believe we had the 2006 cuvee). We loved them so much that I regretted having given 3 of my bottles away as gifts. I still have a bottle of their Freedom Ridge Pinot Noir (not sure which year...I would have to go down into the deep dark recesses of the wine cellar and it is too cold today for that kind of activity) that I was really looking forward to opening on a special occasion. Now I am feeling a bit reluctant. I am hoping that your experience was an anomaly since I had such a good experience. Maybe it is like music and sometimes having some expertise in the area can ruin what would otherwise be a perfectly pleasant experience? ( I know I have had this problem at concerts frequently!)
First off, thanks for using the "Comments for Recent Wine Reviews" so perfectly- this is exactly the kind of thing I hoped for (though not quite as elegant as Facebook's commenting functionality).
I really think my experience with this Panther Creek was rogue. Both you and Heath (my Oregon Pinot experts!) have had really good experience with their wines and you've been there and tasted a lot of Oregon Pinot Noir. I'm certain your impressions of the winery's capabilities are accurate.
Question for you and Heath on Panther Creek- do you find that you have to step up to their single vineyard wines to experience greatness? Or is their entry-level winemaker's cuvee normally just as good? I can't imagine shelling out another $29.99 for this one in particular, and it takes a lot for me to spend $50 on *any* wine so I'm left not knowing how to proceed with Panther Creek. Heath said he might have a bottle of Freed Hill he'd be willing to share with me- maybe if I keep expressing my "concerns" with this Winemaker's Cuvee I'll get him to share his special bottle. ;)
Related to this- an area wine store has Adelsheim's $29.99 offering. Is that a good one? Or (again) do you think I have to step up to $50 to get the good stuff?
On the Panther Creek. I will admit that we had tasted several wines the day we went to the Panther Creek tasting room (note: excellent Spanish restaurant in the same town...had paella to die for!). But Phil is with you in that he rarely spends more than about $15 for wine ( I am usually the one who splurges), but he thought the Cuvee was so nice. It was a bit fruit forward, but in a good way...dark berry notes, and at the same time, like Heath said, more like a Cab than one of those thin Pinot Noirs that I hate. I still have the Freedom Hill bottle and if you were going to be in AZ while we are there, I would bring it with us so we could share and get your opinion. It would be nice to share it with someone who isn't just as happy with a $3 Chuck!
On the Adelshiem. I honestly didn't think you needed to step up to the $50 offering (and even less so the more expensive single vineyard wines). But I have only treated myself with one bottle of their Pinot Noir. I would get more, but we have so much wine downstairs right now that Phil put a prohibition on buying more until we make some room. I would try one bottle and see what you think. If it doesn't work out, I will figure out a way to make you good, since I am the one foisting the Vineyard on you....I know, next time we are going to be in the same place at the same time, I will bring the very special bottle of their TDF dessert wine!
Michelle
Sounds like a plan- I'll try a $29.99 bottle of the Adelsheim entry level and let you know what I think. I'm sure it'll be good.
I don't think we're going to make it back to AZ this holiday season. :( Maybe when the kids are a little older. We'll have to do virtual tastings until we're in the same place at the same time. :) Have you ever heard of http://twittertastelive.com ?
I think you mentioned it somewhere in your blog. I am not on Twitter yet, so I hadn't really tried it. I have a hard time figuring out how a virtual tasting would go. Do you both buy a bottle of the same wine and then someone leads you through the tasting? How do you make sure that one of you doesn't get a bottle that is corked? (Would I know one if I tasted one?)
The virtual tasting they did on Twitter Taste Live was quite ambitious. Bin Ends Wine, a retailer in Braintree, MA wrapped 4 wines in aluminum foil and shipped them to tasters all over the country. They don't always do it blind like this, but it seemed to add an element of intrigue. It would be an interesting way to assess corked wines actually- if one person is saying that their wine smelled like moldy wet cardboard and the others were saying that theirs was fruity and delicious it would be an interesting situation! Watch for more information on corked wines coming later this week here on the WWP! You've inspired me!
See, it all comes full circle! It is like a master class or seminar where there is a curiculum, but the students also decide what will be studied! I can see that soon you will be leading tastings at venues in your area, and then around the country! I am looking forward to reading about corked wines....though I may be doing it from Sheila's house!
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