WINE TASTING COMPETITION - 2017 BEST WINE STUDENT
Stay tuned! Information on 2017 wine competition coming soon...
About 2016 edition:
November 18th, 2016, we conducted the finals of the “Best Wine Students of La Soiree” at 7 PM at The Village on Market Street in San Francisco. The competition started with 17 students who went through the elimination round on November 10, at the offices of Wine Business Monthly.
The 4 students finalists were (in 1st name alpha order):
Anastasia Utkina (UC Davis)
Collin Russell (Culinary Institute of America)
Jenni Burgess (San Francisco Wine School)
Yuri Shima (San Francisco Wine School)
The competitors went through a blind tasting of a white and a red wines, both blind (i.e. the bottles were in an opaque bag). Following the blind wine tasting, the students had to answer 3 “Grape Growing”, 5 “Wine Making”, and 5 “Marketing” questions, plus a “tie breaker” question where the closest number to the answer won the tie... After many friendly interruptions by well-wishing La Soiree participants, the results were tabulated under the stern scrutiny of “myself” and the final ranking is as follows:
1st - Jenni Burgess
2nd - Collin Russell
3rd - Anastasia Utkina
4th - Yuri Shima
Congratulations to all 4 finalists!
The 4 students finalists were (in 1st name alpha order):
Anastasia Utkina (UC Davis)
Collin Russell (Culinary Institute of America)
Jenni Burgess (San Francisco Wine School)
Yuri Shima (San Francisco Wine School)
The competitors went through a blind tasting of a white and a red wines, both blind (i.e. the bottles were in an opaque bag). Following the blind wine tasting, the students had to answer 3 “Grape Growing”, 5 “Wine Making”, and 5 “Marketing” questions, plus a “tie breaker” question where the closest number to the answer won the tie... After many friendly interruptions by well-wishing La Soiree participants, the results were tabulated under the stern scrutiny of “myself” and the final ranking is as follows:
1st - Jenni Burgess
2nd - Collin Russell
3rd - Anastasia Utkina
4th - Yuri Shima
Congratulations to all 4 finalists!
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Tonnellerie Radoux generously donated the prizes awarded during this competition. They manufacture for the international wine industry: French, American and Eastern European oak barrels, puncheons, casks, tanks, chips and tank staves. Founded in 1947, Radoux USA has been located in Sonoma County since 1994. |
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