Eighth Annual Birch Wine Competition

The Eighth Annual Birch
Thanksgiving Wine Competition 2004

Calendar: 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006

This years competition was conducted by a group of NINE ruthless and tipsy competitors at the vacation location south of Jacksonville, Florida, USA.

The Wine competition!

This years competitors!

But before we get to the competition itself, we take a moment to express our immense appreciation from all the participants for the terrific, and essential, jobs performed by the Masters of Ceremony! This event could not happen without you!

Harry & Dave

Entries were judged in four categories:

Color
Bouquet
Taste
Finish
Overall Rating (50 to 100)

All the competitors are to be congratulated on their entries!

Red Wine Competition
Place	Entry	Entered by
1st Place Congratulations! The conveted Award!	2001 Firestone Score: 96.0	Stayce Humbly accepting the coveted award! Stayce will add her charm tag to those of the previous winners! And the trophy will grace her mantel for the coming year. Should she be remiss in any of her duties this year, then second will take over her duties.
2nd Place So close!	1995 Grgich Hills Cabernet Score: 91.5	Steve
3rd Place	1993 Beringer Cabernet Score: 90.5	Jeff
4th Place	Hendry Cabernet 2000 Score: 89.8	Sue
5th Place	William Kendell Shiraz 2000 Score: 87.7	Betsy
6th Place	2001 Soos Creek Score: 86.8	Dale
7th Place	III Forks Cabernet 2000 Score: 86.7	Kat
8th Place	Chateau LaPeyre 1998 Score: 85.1	Michael
9th Place	Yalumba Cabernet 2001 Score: 81.0	Kathy

And so ends this year's competitions... and another wonderful family vacation. *sigh*

Who will win next year? Come back and find out!