Next month’s U.S. Open Golf Championship at Chambers Bay west of Tacoma is viewed as the most important sporting event ever staged in Washington state, and the Washington State Wine Commissionhas made sure many of its best wines will be poured near the 18th tee throughout the tournament.
It started with the $120,000 investment as its share of a corporate tent at Chambers Bay Golf Course, and leaders of the Washington wine industry followed that up with a blind judging by some of the state’s top sommeliers to determine the 120 wines to be featured at the tournament.
Woodinville vintner Chris Sparkman, who chairs the wine commission’s 12-member board of directors, said the vote was unanimous to invest in the corporate tent, feature the state’s wines and entertain many of the top wine retailers, sommeliers and wine writers in the United States and around the world.
“It was a slam dunk for us,” Sparkman told Great Northwest Wine. “We know this is a once-in-a-generation if not a once-in-a-lifetime type of attraction as it nails the demographic of wine influentials. And the response from the winerie…READ MORE at Great Northwest Wine
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