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Liberty's 13 Annual BC Wine and Oyster Festival at the Hyatt Vancouver

Jan 16, 2007

By Catherine Barr

 

Oyster lovers got their fill last week as Liberty Wine Merchants' held one of their most popular annual events. The 13th Annual BC Wine and Oyster Festival was held on Jan 16 at Vancouver's Hyatt hotel and attracted hundreds of people. Designed to help raise money for B.C Children’s Hospital – Oak Tree Clinic, over 100 wineries took part and several local restaurants. Gone is the oyster eating contest, but the first ever oyster schucking contest was a big hit.


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The gang from Sandbar were ready to rock those oysters. From left: Dawn Sharples, Ross Johnston, Buddy Wolfe and Rogel Alcayaga.
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Park Royal wine store manager Tyler Dawson (left), teamed up with Liberty's GM Robert Simpson and Robson Street store manager Drew Kuchta to make the event a big success.
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Monk McQueens' chef Jeff Batt and manager Steven Henderson served up hundreds of oysters complete with toppings.
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Congrats to oyster schucker Umut Cetin (left) from Rodney's Oyster House. He and fellow chefs Stewart Cummings and Todd McDonald took home first prize in the contest.
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Sampling some mollusks and merlot were the gals from CTV-9. From left: reporter Lisa Rossington, producer Tracey Robertson, reporter Jina You and anchor Keri Adams.
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Roll out the barrell with the North Shore's own Gina Corsi who manned the Liberty prize draw drum.
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Raising money for charity were raffle prize volunteers Leah Nyrose (left) and Shelley Sainsbury.

 

     

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