The Wellesley Wine Press was just added to. Thanks to The Boston Globe for including The Wellesley Wine Press in their list of local blogs in the Food & Drink section.
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. I truly appreciate that as it has driven a lot of local traffic to this site. The Boston Globe's website has been linking to my recent entries as part of their expanded local coverage including Wellesley. 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." NPR's Public Radio Kitchen linked to my pieces on "Syrah: The Steroids of the Pinot Noir World" and "Watching the Wine Community Rumble". Wine Enthusiast Magazine called me a " wine accessory guru". It was kind of surreal having a camera crew in our kitchen but we enjoyed it! Check it out: WBZ-TV, the Boston CBS affiliate, interviewed me about Massachusetts wine shipping laws. Wow- that's great company to be in! Thanks- I appreciate it. Check 'em out!īoston University wine educator Stacy Woods mentioned this site alongside wine blogging powerhouses Vinography and Fermentation. Thanks!īudget Bacchus named this site Wine Blog of the Week. The nice folks at Foodista, The Cooking Encyclopedia Everyone Can Edit, named this site Wine Blog of the Day for this entry featuring GoBYO. I thought it was a great example of how print wine writers can effectively engage wine bloggers. Bill also gave the site a shout-out for a piece the Capitol Case Clubcontributed about restaurant wine service. I said "For me, they're like pumpkin spice coffee drinks: best enjoyed early in the season". The Chicago Tribune's Bill Daley mentioned the site in Rosé: A wine for more seasons. WBUR, Boston's NPR news station, did an audio interview with me for a piece discussing MA Question 1: Repealing the Alcohol Sales Tax. Looks like Wellesley's readers know their wine."īoston'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. 6 wine, and "RichardPF" nailed it, winning the Kindle, and the respect of his wine-loving peers. 7 wine, "James Z" guessed Baer Ursa Columbia Valley 2008, our No. 10 wine, "Mike M" guessed Quinta do Vallado Touriga Nacional Douro 2008, our No. "Senelwine" guessed Château de St.-Cosme Gigondas 2009, our No. Unfiltered was impressed with the number of Top 10 wines prognosticated by Wellesley's readers. 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. This year, blogger Wellesley Wine Press held a contest, with New York wine retailer Grapes the Wine Co. "trying to predict the annual Wine of the Year is a popular parlor game among enophiles. Wine Spectator picked up on our 2011 Scoop the Spectator contest with these remarks: “You have this strange exclusion of wine, which in Europe is considered a grocery item,” said Mr. For consumers, it would be more convenient to be able to buy wine at a supermarket while shopping for food, he said." Dwyer of Wellesley, who blogs about wine at the calls the state’s liquor laws bizarre and favors a wider availability of wine. The Worcester Telegram & Gazette reached out for a quote on the expansion of the number of licenses each retailer in MA can hold: This year, mine was the first guess on Dwyer’s site." I used to think the entire concept of a Top 100 list was silly. "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. Our Scoop the Spectator contest was mentioned on Palate Press: This site was listed as one of the Top 100 Wine Blogs: I shared my thoughts on the direct shipment of wine to Massachusetts with CBS Boston during hearings at the State House.
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