Taylor Shellfish Farms is pleased to announce the 2008 "Oyster Award" winners
After four tiers of judging 200 wines entered in the 2008 Pacific Coast Oyster Wine Competiiton, 12 wines have been selected as equal winners of the 2008 “Oyster Award”. Wines were judged blind with Kumamoto oysters. Judges chew the oyster well, smell and taste the wine and then rate the “bliss factor”.
Final judgings were held April 22 at the Water Grill in Los Angeles, April 23 at Sutro's at the Cliff House in San Francisco and April 24 at Anthony's HomePort in Seattle. Scores from the 41 oyster-loving judges...food and wine media, restaurateurs, retailers, and oyster lovers-at-large...in three cities were combined to select this year’s winners.
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Oysters are a celebration… romantic, sexy, luminous… The right wine makes them even more so.
Sheila Lukins
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2008 Schedule of Events:
February 19: Call to Entry
March 28, 6:00 pm: Deadline for Entries
April 1 - April 7: Preliminary Judging, Seattle
April 9: 20 Finalists notified
April 22: Los Angeles, Final Judging
April 23: San Francisco, Final Judging
April 24: Final Judging, Seattle
April 28: 2008 "Oyster Award" winners announced
For information on the Pacific Coast Oyster Wine Competition, contact Jon Rowley at 206.963.5959 or rowley@nwlink.com.
As I ate the oysters with their strong taste of the sea and their faint metallic taste that the cold white wine washed away, leaving only the sea taste and the succulent texture, and as I drank their liquid from each shell and washed it down with the crisp taste of the wine, I lost the empty feeling and began to be happy and to make plans.
A Moveable Feast , Ernest Hemingway
