Paso Robles, California, August 18, 2008Mitchella, Midnight Cellars and Local High-School Seniors Are Big Winners of 10th Annual Paso Robles Rotary Winemakers’ Cookoff
Cookoff winners:(L to R) Paso Robles Rotary President, Dan Blake; 2008 Cookoff Chair, Sally Davis; People’s Choice winner, Rich Hartenberger, Midnight Cellars; Judges’ Choice winners, Angela and Darren Mitchell, Mitchella Winery.
Mitchella Earns Top Judges’ Honor, Midnight Cellars Takes First-Place People’s Choice Award
In what organizers said was this "fundraiser’s largest attendance in its 10 year history," Mitchella Vineyard and Winery’s marinated shrimp taco garnered the first-place Judges’ Award and Midnight Cellars’ beef Wellington in a mushroom-port reduction sauce got the top honors People’s Choice Award at the 10th-Annual Paso Robles Rotary Club Winemakers’ Cookoff.
The event took place on Saturday, August 9 held at the Paso Robles Hot Springs. Preliminary figures indicate a record attendance of over 1,000 and proceeds from the Cookoff are also expected to exceed previous editions of the event.
100% of net proceeds from this event each year are deposited in the Club’s Harlow Ford Scholarship Foundation. In 2007 and again this year, the Foundation provided $30,000 in college and vocational scholarships to local high-school seniors. From the results of this year’s Cookoff, the Club hopes to be able to increase that amount in 2009.
Judges for this year’s event were: Kathy Marcks Hardesty, chef and freelance wine and food columnist; Mike Steponavich, a wine writer and educator; Larry Shupnick, a nationally known leader in the hotel and hospitality industry; Janis Switzer, a Central Coast freelance wine writer; and Robert Whitley, nationally syndicated wine writer and wine talk show host.
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