WELCOME TO THE NEW BWE!

JimHow · Post by **JimHow** » Mon Jan 26, 2009 8:36 pm

Welcome to our new message board!

Today we begin a new, exciting era for Bordeaux Wine Enthusiasts. After nearly nine years in the MSN system, we have created this new site. It is still somewhat of a work in progress, but it seems to have all of the basic functions necessary for a successful wine forum. We are working on additional features, like a BWE archive and integration with Cellartracker. We have a great management team in place: Scott Cardone, David Glasser, Phil Reeve, Michael Case, and Alex Rychlewski.

I am immensely grateful to the assistant managers for all of the hard work put into this project over the past couple months. I am especially grateful to Phil Reeve from the UK, without whose expertise this site would not have been possible.

And finally, I would like to thank all of the many BWEers over the past nine years who have posted hundreds of thousands of messages on BWE with a passion and goodwill unmatched anywhere else in the world. It is all of you, ultimately, who have made our community so successful.

We look forward to seeing all of you here, and continuing lifelong friendships, for many years to come!

Sincerely,
Jim Howaniec

tim · Post by **tim** » Mon Jan 26, 2009 9:03 pm

Greetings from Paris! Great job everyone!

JimHow · Post by **JimHow** » Mon Jan 26, 2009 9:03 pm

Welcome Timmy!

JScott · Post by **JScott** » Mon Jan 26, 2009 9:06 pm

Welcome one and all. Let's get the party started!

Jay Winton · Post by **Jay Winton** » Mon Jan 26, 2009 9:07 pm

Howdy everyone!

Rieslingfan · Post by **Rieslingfan** » Mon Jan 26, 2009 9:08 pm

Hooray! I know this software! BWE is live AND I don't have to learn a new forum. Yipee!

JimHow · Post by **JimHow** » Mon Jan 26, 2009 9:08 pm

Greetings Mr. Vino....

...and rieslingfan!

Whuzzup_ · Post by **Whuzzup_** » Mon Jan 26, 2009 9:09 pm

Looks great! This is a wonderful new step for BWE! Jim, nicely done...

Ben

ajww4764 · Post by **ajww4764** » Mon Jan 26, 2009 9:09 pm

Great New site.
well done everyone!!

JimHow · Post by **JimHow** » Mon Jan 26, 2009 9:10 pm

Ben!!!

stefan · Post by **stefan** » Mon Jan 26, 2009 9:10 pm

The look is really nice, guys. Great job!

stefan

tim · Post by **tim** » Mon Jan 26, 2009 9:11 pm

Wow, Ben's here, awesome! And so many of the old crowd. This is really great.

stefan · Post by **stefan** » Mon Jan 26, 2009 9:12 pm

Aw, Mr. Vino has a new name. Mrs. Vino will be unhappy.

tim · Post by **tim** » Mon Jan 26, 2009 9:13 pm

Drinking: 2005 Chateau La Pointe Pomerol in celebration.

Jay Winton · Post by **Jay Winton** » Mon Jan 26, 2009 9:14 pm

stefan wrote:Aw, Mr. Vino has a new name. Mrs. Vino will be unhappy.

mr vino is my evil twin

I can't speak for mrs vino.

tim · Post by **tim** » Mon Jan 26, 2009 9:15 pm

Any options to have a chat room linked?

greatbxfreak · Post by **greatbxfreak** » Mon Jan 26, 2009 9:15 pm

Fabulously done. Thanks.

Daytonnc · Post by **Daytonnc** » Mon Jan 26, 2009 9:18 pm

Looks Great!!!!!

Susan Dayton

Michael Malinoski · Post by **Michael Malinoski** » Mon Jan 26, 2009 9:18 pm

Thanks, folks! I'm looking forward to continuing the journey. BWE is where I met my very first "offline" contacts for sharing wine together. That has grown and grown in concentric circles since then, but it all started here (or there, now here, if you follow my drift!).

-Michael

PhilR · Post by **PhilR** » Mon Jan 26, 2009 9:19 pm

tim wrote:Any options to have a chat room linked?

Yeah I think we should consider this. Would be nice to have user accounts seamlessly linked so it'll take a bit of work. Couple of other things to do first though.

Whuzzup_ · Post by **Whuzzup_** » Mon Jan 26, 2009 9:20 pm

I always check in, and I put the launch in my outlook calendar. I wanted to be one of the first ones in. This is very exciting. Sharing a glass of great Bordeaux (or Burgundy) with friends is the best thing about wine, and this site has always been about that. Look at all of the enduring friendships that have been made here... You cannot argue with its success.

I will always support Jim and BWE!

Ben

JimHow · Post by **JimHow** » Mon Jan 26, 2009 9:23 pm

It's great to see you here Ben, I know you've always been out there.
We need to get together and drink some Bordeaux/Burgundy at some point in 2009 and get caught up on things.
I've got some nice '05 Burgs I want you to try!

nomadfromcincy · Post by **nomadfromcincy** » Mon Jan 26, 2009 9:25 pm

Well done Jim and crew. I have been lurking (for the most part) on MSN because signing and posting was so difficult... look forward to being more of a participant here.

JimHow · Post by **JimHow** » Mon Jan 26, 2009 9:27 pm

Welcome nomad, great to see you here. And everyone else, can't keep up here!
This is very exciting.
The program seems to be accomodating things very well, Phil....

PhilR · Post by **PhilR** » Mon Jan 26, 2009 9:28 pm

Yep, I''m glad it's still working!

Joe Belmaati · Post by **Joe Belmaati** » Mon Jan 26, 2009 9:32 pm

Congratulations!

PhilR · Post by **PhilR** » Mon Jan 26, 2009 9:35 pm

Can I just say that I'm absolutely loving this!

I've never been so excited about launching a website

JimHow · Post by **JimHow** » Mon Jan 26, 2009 9:36 pm

i love seeing the oldtimers checking in!

michael · Post by **michael** » Mon Jan 26, 2009 9:36 pm

Now we'll get to see all the lurkers on the MSN forum who were unable to log in. Nice to see some of the old standbys popping up again (Whuzzup_!). Long live BWE.

tim · Post by **tim** » Mon Jan 26, 2009 9:37 pm

by the way, format: excellent!

JCNorthway · Post by **JCNorthway** » Mon Jan 26, 2009 9:42 pm

I think that I am in after a very simple registration process - thank you designers and programmers!

I'm really looking forward to this new site. In honor of this opening day, I hope to post a Bordeaux tasting note later this evening.

Jon

tim · Post by **tim** » Mon Jan 26, 2009 9:44 pm

so, 45 minutes in, there is about 1 new registration every 90 seconds... quite a pace!

JimHow · Post by **JimHow** » Mon Jan 26, 2009 9:44 pm

We do indeed read you, Jon!

You are right, sign in is SO easy!

No more of that nonsense from the MSN site.

ChrisW · Post by **ChrisW** » Mon Jan 26, 2009 9:45 pm

Thanks for all the work some of you have invested into the development of this great site!

I'm in!

ChrisW

JimHow · Post by **JimHow** » Mon Jan 26, 2009 9:47 pm

Looking forward to continuing to read your contributions here ChrisW!

William P · Post by **William P** » Mon Jan 26, 2009 9:49 pm

Thanks Jim and to all the helpers and facilitators. It looks great.

Bill

BTW I dropped BordeauxBill. I felt stupid with such a bombastic name since there are so many here who have a better handle on wines from our favorite area!

JimHow · Post by **JimHow** » Mon Jan 26, 2009 9:51 pm

Hey there Bill!

jal · Post by **jal** » Mon Jan 26, 2009 9:51 pm

This is wonderful! And I am jal again.

Winona Chief · Post by **Winona Chief** » Mon Jan 26, 2009 9:55 pm

Looking good!

Chris Bublitz

JimHow · Post by **JimHow** » Mon Jan 26, 2009 9:58 pm

Welcome Winona Chief!