{"id":805,"date":"2009-04-27T22:59:57","date_gmt":"2009-04-27T22:59:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kathycasey.com\/blog\/?p=805"},"modified":"2009-04-27T22:59:57","modified_gmt":"2009-04-27T22:59:57","slug":"best-oyster-wines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dishingwithkathycasey.com\/?p=805","title":{"rendered":"Best Oyster Wines!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Los Angeles<\/span><\/strong>, San Francisco and Seattle Judges Select <\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Best West Coast Wines for Oysters<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

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\u201cOysters are a celebration\u2026romantic, sexy, luminous…The right wine makes them even more so.\u201d<\/span><\/em> Sheila Lukins<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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41 oyster-loving food and wine writers, restaurateurs, retailers and oyster growers convened at the <\/span>Water Grill<\/span><\/a> in Los Angeles, <\/span>Sutro\u2019s at the Cliff House<\/span><\/a> in San Francisco, and <\/span>Anthony\u2019s HomePort at Shilshole Bay<\/span><\/a> in Seattle to select five crisp sauvignon blancs, four lively, refreshing pinot gris and one oyster-friendly blend as equal winners of the month-long <\/span>2009 Pacific Coast Oyster Wine Competition<\/span><\/a>\u2014the popular annual dating service to find the best West Coast wine matches for oysters. Few wines go with oysters, a vibrant combination of minerals, sweetness and the sea. That is why oyster lovers are eager to learn which wines will receive the prestigious 2009 \u201cOyster Award\u201d, a framed golden oyster medallion.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Taylor Shellfish Farms<\/span><\/a> of Shelton, Washington, sponsor of the Competition, invited West Coast wineries to submit their best \u201coysters wines\u201d, typically dry, crisp, clean-finishing white wines. The competition is organized and produced by its founder Jon Rowley. Each wine is blind-tasted with at least one Kumamoto oyster. The judge chews the oyster well, sips the wine and rates the \u201cbliss factor\u201d, the wine\u2019s affinity with the oyster. In a weeklong Preliminary Judging in Anthony\u2019s HomePort at Shilshole Bay in Seattle, five veteran Preliminary Judges consumed over 1200 \u201cKumos\u201d in narrowing the contenders to 20 finalists. Scores from the 41 judges in the three-city final judging panels were combined to determine the <\/span>2009 \u201cOyster Award\u201d winners<\/span><\/a>. Taylor Shellfish Farms is pleased to announce and congratulate the 2009 \u201cOyster Award\u201d recipients (listed alphabetically):<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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Airfield Estates 08 Thunderbolt Sauvignon Blanc (WA)<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Anne Amie Vineyards Cuvee A Amrita 07 White Wine (OR)\u00a0 <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Cedergreen Cellars 07 Sauvignon Blanc (WA)<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

**Chateau Ste, Michelle 08 Pinot Gris (WA)<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

*Covey Run 07 Pinot Grigio (WA)<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Hogue Cellars 08 Pinot Grigio (WA)<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

**Kenwood 07 Reserve Sauvignon Blanc (CA)<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

**Robledo Family Winery \u201cSeven Brothers\u201d 07 Sauvignon Blanc (CA)<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Rutherford\u00a0 Ranch 07 Sauvignon Blanc (CA)<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

*Sweet Cheeks Winery 08 Pinot Gris (OR)<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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*Prior \u201cOyster Award\u201d winner.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

**Multiple prior \u201cOyster Awards\u201d.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

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With oysters on the half shell enjoying increasing nationwide popularity, Oyster Award winners receive immediate and substantial sales benefits. \u201cThe search for wines to go with oysters adds to the excitement of and culture of oysters\u201d, says Taylor President, Bill Taylor. \u201cIt\u2019s good for the Oyster, it\u2019s good for the growers; it\u2019s good for the wineries: it\u2019s good for the restaurants that sell oysters and it\u2019s good for oyster-loving consumers.\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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Some of the judges claim they have the best job in all of food and wine: Amy Albert, Associate Senior Editor of Bon Appetit and avid surfer says, \u201cAnticipating this judging is like having Rolling Stones concert tickets or catching a great wave.\u201d \u201cI wait all year for this\u201d, says long-time Los Angeles judge, LA Weekly restaurant critic and 2007 Pulitzer winner, Jonathan Gold. \u201cThis is my favorite wine competition!\u201d says Dr. Robert Small, who produces the Los Angeles International Wine & Spirits Competition.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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Taylor Shellfish Farms, based in Shelton, WA is a fifth generation, family-owned company producing manila clams, Mediterranean mussels, geoduck and, oysters and shellfish seed for national and international markets. For information on Taylor Shellfish Farms go to www.taylorshellfish.com<\/a><\/span>. For further information on the Pacific Coast Oyster Wine Competition go to <\/span>www.oysterwine.com<\/span><\/a> <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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Los Angeles, San Francisco and Seattle Judges Select Best West Coast Wines for Oysters \u00a0 \u201cOysters are a celebration\u2026romantic, sexy, luminous…The right wine makes them even more so.\u201d Sheila Lukins \u00a0 41 oyster-loving food and wine writers, restaurateurs, retailers and oyster growers convened at the Water Grill in Los Angeles, Sutro\u2019s at the Cliff House […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[11760],"tags":[11803,11857],"class_list":["post-805","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dishing-with-kathy-casey-blog","tag-recent"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dishingwithkathycasey.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/805","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dishingwithkathycasey.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dishingwithkathycasey.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dishingwithkathycasey.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dishingwithkathycasey.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=805"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dishingwithkathycasey.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/805\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dishingwithkathycasey.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dishingwithkathycasey.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dishingwithkathycasey.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}