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Dennis Fraley and his team are starting up the 2026 NTP. Updates posted when available but probably not until February 2026. Wine are not ready for ordering.

Hello NTP, As I shared at the Conference, I will be stepping down as the NTP Coordinator. I’ll continue to assist the new NTP Coordinator, Dennis Fraley, and his team as an NTP Consultant, focusing on website updates, IT systems, and scoring support. For now, this...

NTP 2025 is off to a great start. The retailer has been busy gathering the Australian wines for NTP 2025. The wines are available NOW !! NTP Website is open to all AWS members. Education: The NTP website is updated with all new education, food and wine pairing ideas...

As of today (8/31/2024), our chapter's overall scoring as compared to all chapters reporting is +1.49 points for Judges and -0.39 points for Non-judges! I interpret this as an excellent scoring calibration for our chapter members.

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Hello NTP Organizers, The NTP Wine Descriptor page has been updated with the following information. We hope you and your members find this useful. --------------- The NTP 2024 judges selected the best wines from a field of 30 wines to produce the NTP 2024 wine set....

Hello NTP Organizers, The presentation has been updated that rearranges the wine order to match the Technical Sheet. You should see a V2 in the presentation title.  

The Stephen Ross Pinot has a vintage change. The retailer sold out of the 2021 which has been replaced with the 2022. The scoring sheet will allow for both vintage scores.

Hello National Tasting Project Organizers, The NTP website is live. You can access it at National Tasting Project website. The website is open to all AWS members without registration. All the pages for Education, Food & Wine, and archives of Sicily and Rhone are...

The new National Tasting Project website is now LIVE! Hello National Tasting Project Organizers,     The NTP website is live. You can access it at National Tasting Project website. The website is open to all AWS members without registration.   All the pages for...