WELCOME TO THE NEW BWE!

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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
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Greetings from Paris! Great job everyone!
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Welcome Timmy!
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Welcome one and all. Let's get the party started!
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Howdy everyone!
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Hooray! I know this software! BWE is live AND I don't have to learn a new forum. Yipee!
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Greetings Mr. Vino....

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

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Great New site.
well done everyone!!
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Ben!!!
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The look is really nice, guys. Great job!

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Wow, Ben's here, awesome! And so many of the old crowd. This is really great.
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Aw, Mr. Vino has a new name. Mrs. Vino will be unhappy.
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Drinking: 2005 Chateau La Pointe Pomerol in celebration.
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stefan wrote:Aw, Mr. Vino has a new name. Mrs. Vino will be unhappy.
mr vino is my evil twin :twisted: I can't speak for mrs vino.
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Any options to have a chat room linked?
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Fabulously done. Thanks.

:ugeek:
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Looks Great!!!!!

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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!).

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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.
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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!

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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! :ugeek:
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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.
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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....
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Yep, I''m glad it's still working!
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Congratulations!
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Can I just say that I'm absolutely loving this!

I've never been so excited about launching a website :)
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i love seeing the oldtimers checking in!
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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.
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by the way, format: excellent! :D
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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.

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so, 45 minutes in, there is about 1 new registration every 90 seconds... quite a pace!
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We do indeed read you, Jon!

You are right, sign in is SO easy!

No more of that nonsense from the MSN site.
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Thanks for all the work some of you have invested into the development of this great site!

I'm in!

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Looking forward to continuing to read your contributions here ChrisW!
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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!
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Hey there Bill!
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This is wonderful! And I am jal again.
Best

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Looking good!

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Welcome Winona Chief!
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