Colorado Springs Wine-Denver International Wine Festival-Taste of Elegance Competition

TASTE OF ELEGANCE CHEF’S WINE AND FOOD COMPETITION/AUCTION

Tickets: $85 (limited to 400)

Location: University of Denver School of Hotel, Restaurant and Tourism Management Denver's premier wine and food pairing competition, featuring samplings of expertly created cuisine paired with Gold Medal Winning Wines from our upcoming 2008 Denver International Wine Competition. Attendees will taste Gold Medal Winning Wines chosen through a blind tasting, from an accredited panel of judges.

From those wines, competing chefs will create "Iron Chef" style dishes to pair with them. In addition, a live and silent auction will take place prior to the award ceremony.

2007 participants were:

•Hosea Rosenberg, Chef, Jax Fish House, Boulder-Won Best Chef of DIWF

•Ian Kleinman, Chef de Cuisine, O's Steak & Seafood, Westin Westminster-Won Most Creative Chef of DIWF!

•Jeremy Thomas, Executive Chef, French 250, Won People's Choice Award!

•Jake Linzenmeir, Chair 8, Telluride

•Jean Stone, Executive Chef, The Palm, Denver

•Curtis Lincoln, Executive Chef, The Brown Palace

•David Snapp, Executive Chef, Randolph's Restaurant & The Warwick Hotel

•BJ Wojtowicz, Executive Chef, Restaurant Kevin Taylor

•Mathew Mine, Executive Chef, The Oceanaire Seafood Room, Denver

•Issac Hutchins, Chef/Proprietor, Chef de Cuisine Catering, Castle Rock

•Duy Pham, Executive Chef & Partner, Aqua Oyster Bar & Lounge

•Ben Smith,Executive Chef, Whirled Peas Catering

Our 2008 Chef lineup will be published on September 1, 2008.

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