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.