Enter Your Wine and Compete for Gold, Silver and Bronze Medals in Various Award Categories. Your Wine Will Be Judged by an Expe
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Enter your wine and compete for gold, silver and bronze medals in various award categories. Your wine will be judged by an expert panel of wine judges. This competition will be conducted in cooperation with the OIB Chapter of the American Wine Society, and Silver Coast Winery. Gain recognition for your winemaking skills, and get valuable feedback on your wine from the judging panel. Winners will be announced at a medal ceremony to be held at the Silver Coast Winery on April 22, 2018. Medal winners will also be recognized at Wine Fest 2018 at the Museum of Coastal Carolina in Ocean Isle Beach which will be held on April 28, 2018. Questions Contact Stan Barwikowski at 910 -579-5235 or by email at [email protected]. 3. Entry fee is $15 for each wine entered. 9. All wine will become the property of the Make checks payable to Museum of Coast Ocean Isle Museum Foundation Inc. and will Carolina. Entry fees are non-refundable. not be returned. 2018 Competition Guidelines 4. All shipments should be packaged to 10. All decisions by competition organizers and 1. The Competition is open to any amateur withstand considerable handling and must be judges are final. home winemaker. An AMATEUR winemaker shipped freight pre-paid. Packages with makes wine either alone or in collaboration postage due or C.O.D. charges will be rejected. 11. Entry deadline is April 9, 2018. with other amateur winemakers. If there is Please note that it is illegal to ship alcoholic collaboration all persons involved must be beverages via the US Postal Service, and FedEx Wines are to be delivered to: named on the entry form and are considered Air and FedEx Ground will destroy amateur Silver Coast Winery as one entrant. Since this is an AMATEUR wine shipments. It is the entrant’s 6680 Barbeque Rd. competition, no individual or any member of responsibility to follow all applicable laws and Ocean Isle BeaCh, NC 28469 the group should be directly involved with regulations. PH: (910) 287-2800 commercial wine making. Commercial wine making is a business 5. Each bottle must be labeled with the SHIPPING LABELS FOR YOUR USE: enterprise certified as a bonded winery, following information: Your name, category, authorized by the Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and wine ingredients, and vintage. If you are using Trade Bureau, for the production and sale of a wine kit for ingredients please list the brand Silver Coast Winery wine. Any person who owns, manages, and product name as wine ingredients. A copy ATTN: Amateur supervises or receives any form of of the entry form, listing your wine entered compensation for being involved with the must accompany entry and payment. 6680 Barbeque Rd. operation of any non-residential wine making Ocean Isle BeaCh, NC 28469 facility may NOT enter the OIB Wine Fest 6. All wines will be judged according to their Amateur Wine Competition. Any wine that relative merits within the category. Gold, silver may be legally sold is not an Amateur Wine. and bronze medals within each category will Silver Coast Winery Any inquiries regarding amateur status may be be awarded on point totals. The AWS scoring directed to the Amateur Wine Competition system will be used. ATTN: Amateur Chair. 6680 Barbeque Rd. 7. It is the responsibility of the entrant to 2. Send ONE (1) BOTTLE per entry. Still wines properly categorize his wine. Ocean Isle BeaCh, NC 28469 must be submitted in std. 750 ml wine bottles. Ice wine or late harvest wines can be 8. All entrants will receive a copy of the submitted in 375 ml bottles. Sparkling wines judging notes for their wines, along with a must be submitted in champagne bottles with copy of the results. proper closure and wire. 350 Vignoles 680 Red/White Blend 380 Other White Hybrid Varietals Wine Classifications 390 White Hybrid Blends Fruit Table wines, dry, semi-dry or sweet. Please read the Competition Guidelines. Wines Table wines made from the grapes containing less than 75% of one Varietal should be Red Hybrid crossed from more than one species, 710 Apple or Pear entered as blends. dry or semi-dry. 720 Stone Fruits (Examples: Peach, Plum, Apricot, 410 Chambourcin Cherry, etc.) White Vinifera Table wines made from a Vinifera 420 Chancellor 730 Raspberry or Blackberry species of grape, dry or semi-dry. 430 DeChaunac 740 Other (examples: Elderberry, Blueberry, 440 Foch Citrus, May Wine) 110 Chardonnay 480 Other Red Hybrid Varietals 760 Fruit Blends (Raspberry/Blackberry) 120 Riesling 490 Red Hybrid Blends 770 Fruit / Grape Blends, Aperitif, Table & Dessert 130 Gewürztraminer (Cherry/Grape) 140 Sauvignon Blanc White Native Table wines made from a North 780 Fruit Infused 150 Pinot Grigio (Pinot Gris) American species of grape, dry or 160 Viognier 510 Delaware semi dry. Dessert 180 Other White Vinifera Varietals 520 Diamond 190 White Vinifera Blends 530 Catawba 810 Sweet Non-fortified Grape (over 3% rs) 540 Niagara 820 Dessert Non-fortified (over 6% rs) (Late Red Vinifera Table wines made from a Vinifera 550 White Muscadines Harvest, Ice Wine) species of grape, dry or semi-dry. 580 Other White Varietals 830 Dry, Semi Dry or Sweet Fortified Aperitif or 210 Cabernet Sauvignon 590White Native Varietal Blends Dessert wines including Port and Sherry 840 Sweet Muscadines 220 Zinfandel Table wines made from a North Red Native 230 Merlot American species of grape, dry or Other 240 Sirah, Syrah semi dry. 250 Pinot Noir 610 Concord 260 Cabernet Franc 620 Norton/Cynthiana 900 Mead and Mead / fruit blends/ fruit infused 270 Sangiovese 650 Red Muscadines 910 Vegetable 280 Other Red Vinifera Varietals (Ex, Malbec, 660 Other Red Native 920 Plant (Dandelion, Lotus Blossom, etc.) Montepulciano) 670 Red Native Blends 930 Sake 290 Red Vinifera Blends (Ex, some Chianti, Meritage) Blends Table wines made from grapes, from different Sparkling Wines made effervescent by the presence main categories, dry or semi-dry. (Examples: of Carbon Dioxide. White Hybrid Table wines made from the grapes Vinifera/Hybrid, Hybrid/Native, Vinifera/Native.) 980 Sparkling Grape and Non-grape including crossed from more than one species, Minor varietal should constitute 10% or more. If blends dry or semi-dry. the minor varietal is less than 10%, enter the wine in the appropriate varietal category above. 310 Seyval Rosé Blush, pink or rose colored, grape table wines. Rosé Fruit Wines should be entered 320 Vidal Blanc 660 White in the appropriate Fruit Category. 330 Cayuga White 340 Traminette 670 Red 1000 Dry or semi-dry, made from red grapes or blends of white and red grapes 2018 OIB Chapter of AWS Amateur Wine Competition Return this page with your entry fee payment. Make additional Use the Category # for your wine as shown under the Wine copies if needed. Entry forms can be downloaded from the Classifications section. following websites: www.OIBAWS.org. www.museumplanetarium.org Use the following codes for SWEETNESS LEVELS: D=Dry, less than 1% www.silvercoastwinery.com residual sugar, SD=Semi-Dry, 1% to 3%, S=Sweet, 3.1% to 6%, DES=Dessert, over 6% InClude a copy of THIS entry paperWork with the wine shipment AttaCh a Copy of eaCh entry form to the respeCtive bottles. Deadline Date for Entry submission is April 9, 2018. Name(s) _______________________________________________ ENTRY #1 Category# ___________________________________________ _______________________________________________________ Vintage Year ________Main Varietal & Address ________________________________________________ %____________________________ City _______________________State/Province _______Zip______ Other Varietal & % ______________Other Varietal & % Phone ( ) ________________ Email __________________________ ________________ Number of Entries ______ Total Entry Fees (U.S. $) $___________ Other Varietal & % ______________Other Varietal & % ________________ Note $15/entry. Sweetness: qD q SD qS q DES I (We) certify that I am (we are) the winemaker(s) of the wines entered below and all entries conform to the 2018 Guidelines Juice/Concentrate? q Yes q No, above. Grapes/fruit/berries? q Yes q No Estate Grown Fruit? q Yes q No Signature ________________________________ Date___________ Wine Kit? q Yes q No Signature ________________________________ Date___________ ENTRY #2 Category# METHOD OF PAYMENT…. Cash, CheCk or Money Order only. ___________________________________________ Vintage Year ________Main Varietal & Vintage Year ________Main Varietal & %____________________________ %____________________________ Other Varietal & % ______________Other Varietal & % Other Varietal & % ______________Other Varietal & % ________________ ________________ Other Varietal & % ______________Other Varietal & % Other Varietal & % ______________Other Varietal & % ________________ ________________ Sweetness: q D q SD q S q DES Sweetness: q D q SD q S q DES Juice/Concentrate? q Yes q No, Juice/Concentrate? q Yes q No, Grapes/fruit/berries? q Yes q No Estate Grown Fruit? q Yes q No Grapes/fruit/berries? q Yes q No Estate Grown Fruit? q Yes q No Wine Kit? q Yes q No Wine Kit? q Yes q No ENTRY #3 Category# ENTRY #5 Category# ___________________________________________ ___________________________________________ Vintage Year ________Main Varietal & Vintage Year ________Main Varietal & %____________________________ %____________________________ Other Varietal & % ______________Other Varietal & % Other Varietal & % ______________Other Varietal & % ________________ ________________ Other Varietal & % ______________Other Varietal & % Other Varietal & % ______________Other Varietal & % ________________ ________________ Sweetness: q D q SD q S q DES Sweetness: q D q SD q S q DES Juice/Concentrate? q Yes q No, Juice/Concentrate? q Yes q No, Grapes/fruit/berries? q Yes q No Estate Grown Fruit? q Yes q No Grapes/fruit/berries? q Yes q No Estate Grown Fruit? q Yes q No Wine Kit? q Yes q No Wine Kit? q Yes q No ENTRY #4 Category# ___________________________________________ .