2007 Norton Wine Competition Judges
Doug Frost – Kansas
City, Missouri
Doug
Frost is a Kansas City author who writes and lectures about wine, beer
and spirits. In 1991 he passed the rigorous Master Sommelier examination
and two years later became America 's eighth Master of Wine in the American
Midwest. He was the second person in history to complete both exams and
eight years later he is still one of only three people in the world to
have achieved both these remarkable distinctions.
Glenn Bardgett – St.
Louis, Missouri
Glenn
Bardgett has more than 30 years’ experience
in the retail wine industry, and has been teaching and lecturing on wine
for more than 20 years. He is currently wine director for Annie Gunn’s
restaurant in Chesterfield, Missouri, and the adjacent Smokehouse Market,
where he is responsible for buying, staff training and wine list management.
The restaurant’s wine selection has received Wine Spectator magazine’s
award of excellence.
Christopher
Hoel – St.
Louis, Missouri
Chris,
co-founder of the St. Louis Wine Clinic, has proven his mettle in the
Chaine des Rotisseurs Young Sommelier Competitions, achieving top honors
in the Midwest three years in a row and twice advancing to the national
finals. Currently employed with Monarch Restaurant in Maplewood, Missouri,
as the Beverage Director. In April 2005, he became one of only two Advanced
Sommeliers in Missouri. He is currently pursuing his Master Sommelier
Diploma with The Court of Master Sommeliers. In January 2007, Mr. Hoel
was invited to sit for the spring Master Sommelier Exam.
Bob Foster – San
Diego, California
Bob
Foster is Assistant Editor of the California Grapevine wine newsletter.
Bob Foster has been a wine judge for over 20 years in California, Missouri,
Virginia and Baja California. He is Chief Judge of the Riverside Intl.
Wine Competition. Bob is also a prosecutor with the California Attorney
General's Office and has twice argued (and won) cases at the Supreme
Court of the United States.
Rich Bryan - Linwood, Kansas
Rich
started his wine career in 1978 in Missouri wine country. Since then
he has toured and traveled all the major wine regions in the United
States. Rich has served as Wine Judge in Missouri, Kansas and Texas
State Competitions. He organized and headed the Kansas Judging in 2002,
2003 and 2004. Rich is a Certified Wine Specialist for The Society
of Wine Educators and is currently the Chairman of the Education and
Evaluation Committee for the Kansas Viticulture Association. He lectures,
teaches and serves on wine panels in the Kansas City Area.
Bill Musgnung - Paonia, Colorado
Bill has had the great fortune
to have studied and worked with some of the finest wine making minds in
the world. His training began in Switzerland in 1982. In 1986 he started
a wine making career in Washington. Passion for the elegance of Pinot Noir
led him to Oregon in 1989. His enological consulting firm, Winetenders,
was hired by the Colorado Department of Agriculture for the past three
years. In 2006 he moved to Paonia, Colorado, to start Bethlehem Wine Cellars.
Where he will specialize in Pinot Noir, other blended red wines, and eventually
Viognier, Roussanne and Pinot Blanc.
Stephen Menke - Pennsylvania
Stephen D. Menke is the Penn State Extension Enology Educator, currently
residing in Gettysburg, PA. He has been involved in wine education,
wine sensory research, commercial winemaking, wine consulting, and
wine judging for the last 13 years. He grew up on a century family
farm in Cozad, NE, and is fully committed to farm wineries as an integral
part of rural development and cultural revitalization. The first wine
he ever tasted was a Stone Hill 1967 Virginia Seedling (Norton), and
he has retained a special interest in Norton over the years. He is
versed in the sensory qualities of wines from a wide range of cultivars,
including vinifera, hybrid, and American native grapes, and with many
fruit wines. He believes that the best wines for the newly developing
American fusion cuisine are regional wines that co-evolve with the
cuisine, like Norton in Missouri.
Patricia Wamhoff - St. Louis, Missouri
Patricia Wamhoff, currently certified as an Advanced Sommelier is working
toward Master Sommelier distinction. During her 18-year culinary career,
Patricia has worked as a proprietor, importer, maitre d’ and sommelier
for various restaurants and wine companies in Toronto, Canada. In St.
Louis, she has been a wine representative for a wine wholesaler, an Advanced
Sommelier at Annie Gunn’s Restaurant, a consultant for area restaurants,
wine cellar appraiser and wine educator. She also tutors sommeliers in
the St. Louis area. Patricia has also taught wine service to the staff
at the Governor’s mansion in Jefferson City during Governor Holden’s
reign. She has been a wine judge for the Missouri Governor’s Cup
over the past 13 years. Patricia was also part of the faculty at the
newly opened culinary school, L’Ecole Culinaire where she developed
and taught the curriculum for wine education.
"Best Norton
of 2007" Awards Reception
The judging will take place at Busch's Grove in Clayton, Missouri, on
August 4, 2007. The results of the judging will be announced the evening
before the festival, on Friday, September 7, 2007, at a location to be
determined.
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