BOUILLABAISSE FESTIVAL 2006

The 11th Bouillabaisse Festival featured 23 top local restaurants and caterers, competing in three categories: best classic Bouillabaise, best Ciopinno and best open Fish Stew (which includes dishes with Japanese, Mexican and Thai influences).

Click here for a slideshow of photographs from the event - just wait a few minutes for the file to download. All photographs are by the indefagitable Bob Dickey.
You can also view these photographs on the Kodak EasyShare Gallery, where you can also order prints.

We also have slideshow of the hard-working people who prepared the fantastic food.

17 of our neighboring wineries poured their dry rosé wines - a perfect accompaniment to these delicious dishes. Click here for a slideshow of the wineries.

2004 SAUVIGNON BLANC BOTTLING

With all of the attention given to the 2003 Sauvignon Blanc (91 points from Wine Enthusiast, Wine Spectator's Wine of the Week and Smart Buy - twice -), the wine sold out months ahead of normal. So when it came time to bottle the 2004 vintage, we decided to use a mobile bottling truck - much faster than our own bottling line. With wine, bottles, corks, capsules and labels at the ready, we hooked up to the mobile bottling line. The glass and wine went in on one side and the finished product appeared on the other. Not quite magic, but certainly impressive and satisfying. Bob Dickey took photographs of the process, some of which are here. But if you'd like to see more photographs, along with an explanation of what's going on, please click on this link.

SANTA BARBARA BOUILLABAISSE FESTIVAL 2004

The Santa Barbara Bouillabaisse Festival is a local food and wine tradition, featuring 20 specially selected top local restaurant chefs who offer up their best bouillabaisse recipes to a panel of expert culinary critics. The Festival also features dry rosé wines from local wineries and a silent auction featuring an impressive array of luxury items. Proceeds from the Festival benefit local nonprofit Hospice of Santa Barbara, which provides cost-free services to meet the emotional, social and spiritual needs of people facing the end of life or grieving the death of a loved one.

El Encanto was the big winner - first in the Classic category, as well as Best in Show and the People’s Choice Award. Two other standouts were Olio e Limone, which won third place in the Cioppino category, and The Ballard Inn, which won second prize in the Open category.

For more photographs from the 2004 Festival, please visit Bob Dickey' photograph album on ofoto by clicking here. You do not need to sign-in to oFoto in order to view Bob’s photographs – simply click the blue “View Photos” button under the album.