Here are the nominees, as picked by our panel of 10 judges. They are listed in no particular order. Please vote for your favorite in the poll section on the bottom of this post. We’ll announce the winner Thursday, so if you have entered, please check back! The wine festival is this weekend.
#1
Fungus smell of earth
Poking gently through the soil
Hidden gems of life
#2
hands and earth collide
together we harvest fresh hope
Sauvie Island bliss
#3
He cooked with passion.
The real reason we broke up?
Knives in dishwasher.
#4
Gruner veltliner
Grapefruity friend in a glass
At long last, summer.
#5
spare some change? no, but,
want these leftovers? uh, well,
is it like, vegan?
#6
inhale swirls of cab
palate warmed, bask in the fire
newly lit like me
#7
Endless winter mist
Stems glisten on the table
Pinot noir, my love.
BrownieMom says
Uum… I’m partial to #6 but isn’t the second line really eight syllables? My dictionary sources think so… maybe I’m reading it wrong?
MyNextMeal says
NOMINEES, spelled correctly in the post but not the post title…sorry it grates on me. ;)
foobar says
just curious, judges…whatever happened to bonus points for the fooku being about wine in Portland? shenanigans!
Food Dude says
Thanks MyNextMeal. Fixed just for you :)
foobar, we didn’t really mean that to be taken literally, it was just to encourage folks since it was about the IWF
Food Dude says
Wow! Close vote! We’ll close the poll tomorrow at 1:30pm, so vote if you haven’t already
morris says
1:30? Right after an early liquid lunch or something?
Food Dude says
we always have a big rush around lunch time. I wanted to make sure those people had time to vote.