Just a 2-3 hour drive from Portland, the Newport Seafood & Wine Festival offers food, wine, and crafts for sale. Join the extravaganza Feb. 23-26, 2017. Bring ID, you’ve got to be of a certain age!
According to organizers, the Newport event is the longest, continuous wine competition in the Northwest. If you like to taste wine and pair it with great seafood, this is the bomb for you.
For the last 31 years of the Festival’s forty year history, Gold, Silver, Bronze and Best-In-Show awards have been handed out to the most consistent achievers in a Commercial Wine Competition marked by one strong field after another. This early-in-the-year look at Northwest wines offers clear evidence of which wineries are on track and who to watch at other festival showcases around the country throughout the year.
Click to view the Best in Show winners from 1987 to 2016
Commercial wineries that have been selected as festival participants from the Pacific Northwest are eligible to enter this prestigious competition.
- 171 entries in 2016
- Gold Medals 25 Silver Medals 37 Bronze Medals 35 Total Medals 97
- JOSEPH H. SWAFFORD BEST OF SHOW River’s Edge 2012 Black Oak Vineyard Pinot Noir Elkton, Oregon
This wine competition is open to amateur winemakers only and offers an opportunity for these individuals to have their wines independently evaluated by a panel of judges. Wines are scored on a 20 point system based on sight, smell, taste and overall quality.
Categories include: Dry Fruit, Sweet Fruit, Dry Berry, Sweet Berry, White Vinifera, White Non-Vinifera, Red Vinifera, Red Non-Vinifera and Specialty, a category which includes all wines not found in other specified divisions.
- Click to download the 2017competition rules and application
- For more information please contact Courtney Rand at265.8801 or [email protected]
- Click here to view the 2017 Amateur Wine Competition Flyer
