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Black Willow Winery Awarded “Best Value” for Red Wine Blend in Influential Competition

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Burt, NY – Last month Black Willow Winery was awarded a prestigious 91 point rating for their Trilogy Red wine. The red wine blend was also voted a “Best Value” and took home Gold status in the Tastings.com World Value Wine Challenge in the category “Top 10 Red Wines $20 and Under.”

 

The Tastings.com World Value Wine Challenge is one of America’s most influential annual wine competitions and has been operated objectively for 18 years. It is a blind tasting, medal-based competition that awards based on a 100-point scale. Wines are judged by Tastings.com’s trained staff joined by top Wine professionals and buyers from retailers and restaurants using a proven, consistent, proprietary methodology developed in collaboration with Cornell University. The Tastings.com World Value Wine Challenge distributes its monthly results to consumers and the trade through Tastings.com, a free consumer website with tens of thousands of unique users a month on its searchable databases and via social media @tastingsbti.

 

Besides this recent award, the winery in it’s seventh year of business has received six more 90 points and above ratings, plus 1 Platinum, 13 Gold, 13 Silver, and 8 Bronze awards, and several other “Best in Class” and “Best Buy” ratings.

 

For the third year in a row, Black Willow Winery was also named “New York Mead Producer of the Year,” an honor given by the New York International Wine Competition. The competition also awarded their signature mead (honey wine), Odin’s Nectar, a gold medal and Bare Cat Blush a bronze.

 

A complete list of the awards and accolades for the 2017 year from January through November are summarized below:

World Value Wine Challenge-Top 10 Red Wine $20 and Under

91 points – GOLD – BEST VALUE – 2016 Trilogy Red

7th Annual New York International Wine Competition

BRONZE – Bare Cat Blush

GOLD – Odin’s Nectar

Mead Winery of the Year

2017 International Women’s Wine Competition

GOLD & BEST OF CLASS – Trilogy Red

BRONZE – Bare Cat Blush

2017 Finger Lakes International Wine Competition

GOLD – Bare Cat Blush

SILVER – Chardonnay, Trilogy White, DePeche Meow

BRONZE – Classic Diamond, Trilogy Red

2017 Pacific Rim International Wine Competition

GOLD – Classic Diamond

SILVER – Trilogy Red

2017 Great American International Wine Competition

SILVER – Bare Cat Blush

BRONZE – Classic Diamond

2017 Florida State Fair International Wine and Grape Juice Competition

SILVER – Classic Diamond

SILVER – Bare Cat Blush

SILVER – Black Widow Berry

2017 International Eastern Wine Competition (East Meets West)

GOLD Best of Class – Classic Diamond

GOLD – Trilogy Red

BRONZE   – Black Widow Berry

2017 Winemakers Challenge

GOLD (92 PTS) – Trilogy Red

GOLD (92 PTS) – Odin’s Nectar

GOLD (91 PTS) – Black Widow Berry

PLATINUM (95 PTS) – Classic Diamond

2017 San Francisco Chronicle Wine Competition

GOLD – Bare Cat Blush

GOLD – Classic Diamond

SILVER – Trilogy White

BRONZE – Chardonnay

BRONZE – Trilogy Red

Beverage Tasting Institute: Regional USA North East Wines

SILVER & BEST BUY (86 PTS) – Bare Cat Blush

SILVER (85 PTS) – Black Widow Berry

BRONZE (84 PTS) – Classic Diamond

Beverage Tasting Institute: January 2017 World Mead Challenge

GOLD & BEST BUY (92 PTS) – Odin’s Nectar

SILVER (88 PTS) – Valkyrie’s Lure

SILVER (87 PTS) – Freyia’s Passion

Beverage Tasting Institute: January 2017 US Pinot Noir & Pinot Gris Reviews

SILVER (87 PTS) – Trilogy White (blend)

SILVER (85 PTS) – Classic Diamond

 

Black Willow Winery’s wines are available for tasting and purchase at the winery, online, and in retail locations and restaurants throughout Western New York. For more information on awards or current wine and mead offerings, contact Black Willow Winery at 716-439-1982 or email sales@blackwillowwinery.com.

 

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Media Contact:
Cynthia West-Chamberlain, Black Willow Winery LLC
5565 West Lake Rd., Burt, NY 14028 / 716-439-1982 / BlackWillowWinery.com