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Nearly 900 wines were judged by America's top wine buyers on October 13 - 14 at the first U.S. Professional Wine Buyers Competition held in Santa Rosa, California.













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AWARD FACTOIDS
  • 888 entries from 240 internal entrants
  • 498 medals awarded (56% of all wines entered)
  • 5 Double Gold (unanimous gold medal from panel)
  • 39 Gold
  • 196 Silver
  • 258 Bronze
Professional Wine Buyers from the following organizations judged the competition under the direction of Head Judge Rebecca Murphy of the Dallas Morning News Wine Competition
  • Andronico's Market, Northern California
  • Bon Vivant Wine Co., Boston, MA
  • Culinary Academy of America
  • Dean and Deluca
  • Draeger's, Menlo Park-based chain
  • Empire Merchants, New York City
  • Fountain Grove Inn and Equus Restaurant, Santa Rosa, CA
  • IL Forniao Restaurant Group
  • JamWines, San Francisco
  • Lark Creek Group (including Lark Creek Inns, Yankee Pier, Bradley Ogden, Parcel 104 restaurants)
  • Little River Inn, Medocino, CA
  • MDM Distributors, San Francisco
  • Oliver's Market, Santa Rosa/Cotati, CA
  • Pearson's Wine & Spirits, Washington, DC
  • Playboy Mansion West, Los Angeles, CA
  • Plumpjack Group
  • Redd Restaurant, Napa Valley
  • St. Helena Wine Center, St. Helena, CA
  • WholeFoods Markets
  • Wine Spectrum, Santa Rosa, CA
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Please consider entering our sister competitions:
www.nwwc.info   Third Annual National women's Wine Competition, March 9-10, 2009
www.greenwinecomp.info   Second Annual International Green Wine Competition for Organic and Biodynamic Wines, June, 2009 (Date TBA)
www.dallaswinecomp.com   The Dallas Morning News Wine Competition, now in its 25th year, Feb. 16-17, 2009