News - Blooms wins awards!

Blooms Winery continues to bring in the awards. The most recent was a Gold Medal for the 2006 Bloom Vineyards Cabernet at the Mendocino County Wine Competition, the longest running wine competition in CA. At the San Francisco Chronicle Wine Competition in January of 2011 the three wine entries sent in by Blooms were all awarded medals, including the prestigious Double Gold for our Washington Red Blend Poetry, and Silver medals for the 2007 Bloom Vineyards Cabernet and the 2009 Calla, our white Bordeaux style blend. Over 5000 wines entered from 23 states in the largest wine competition in the country.

Wine writer Gene Stein has written on several occasions about Blooms of Whidbey wines in his Seattle Wine Blog, including naming the Bloom Vineyard Cabernet as the Best Cab at the Taste Washington event at Quest Field in Seattle, where nearly 200 Washington wineries participate.

In an article about wines of Whidbey for the Seattle Times, wine writer Tan Vinh called Bloom Vineyards Cabernet "the best cabernet on the Island".

Other Articles About Whidbey Island Wines

• Sarah Jackson of the Everett Herald wrote about "the perfect match" of red wines and chocolate, and specifically Blooms Cabernet and BRIX chocolates for sale at the tasting room, for the RED WINE AND CHOCOLATE Wine Tour, plus our San Francisco Chronicle Double Gold Award.
• Sue Frause wrote in her Seattle PI blog about the Double Gold Award given to Poetry in January 2011.
  
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• Check out the October 2008 article from Tan Vinh at www.seattletimes.com

Award Winning Wines

Ken and Virginia Bloom began making wine in 1998, and as amateur wine makers won First and Second Place at the Western Washington State Fair in Monroe; Best of Show at Island County Fair; First and Second Place and also The Best of Show for non-grape wine (Ambrosia) at The Puyallup Fair.  The winery became licensed in 2003, and has continued to win awards. They include a recent Gold Medal for the 2006 Bloom Vineyards Cabernet, plus two Silver medals and a Bronze medal at Mendocino County Wine Competitions; two bronze medals from Northwest Wine Summit 2008; a Silver and a Bronze from the 2010 Seattle Wine Awards and a Double Gold and two Silvers from the San Francisco Chronicle Wine Competition 2011. Our 2004 Bloom Vineyards was chosen by wine writer Gene Stein as the best Cabernet at the 2006 Taste Washington wine event; and was written up as the best Cabernet on Whidbey by Seattle Times Wine Writer Tan Vinh in 2008.