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