The San Francisco Chronicle extends the invitation for your winery to enter the 2010 San Francisco Chronicle Wine Competition.

Produced by winejudging.com and hosted by the Cloverdale Citrus Fair to benefit Santa Rosa Junior College Wine Studies and Culinary Programs, the San Francisco Chronicle Wine Competition Tasting is the Bay Area’s “gateway” wine event and will be held Saturday, February 28, 2009 at Fort Mason Center, San Francisco. Holiday Inn Express Hotel & Suites (Fisherman's Wharf), the Official Hotel of the San Francisco Chronicle Wine Competition, will have special public tasting winery rates.

San Francisco Chronicle will again publish a special wine section featuring the award winning wines for the paper’s 1,228,100 daily readers. Last year, the special section featured twenty-four pages of medal winning wines, sweepstakes winemakers’ stories, and feature articles about the wine country throughout the United States. Participating wineries are encouraged to place their advertising message in this very popular, wine-focused, special section. The Chronicle is again extending promotional advertising rates for this issue. Contact Sue Merceri, Account Executive of the San Francisco Chronicle at (415) 777-8787 or smerceri@sfchronicle.com for special winery advertising rates.

In addition, we are planning publicity for award winning wines with our radio sponsor: KGO-AM
810; TV sponsor: NBC; and other major newspaper, magazine, and media markets. Thank you for
participating and I wish your winery good luck!

Sincerely,
Bob Fraser
Executive Director
San Francisco Chronicle Wine Competition