Chatham Hill Winery Wins Standing Ovation Award

MORRISVILLE, N.C. – Marek Wojciechowski and Jill Winkler, proprietors of Chatham Hill Winery, have announced that the winery was recognized, with a Standing Ovation award, as the top North Carolina vineyard and/or winery in Metro Magazine’s 2007 MetroBravo Awards. Readers voted for the award based on taste, quality and overall excellence, and the firm has been featured in the July issue of Metro Magazine. An event honoring the recipients of the MetroBravo Awards is scheduled for Thursday, Sept. 27 at the Koka Booth Amphitheatre in Cary. For more information, visit http://www.metronc.com.

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News Facts:

• Marek Wojciechowski and Jill Winkler, proprietors of Chatham Hill Winery, have announced that the winery was recognized, with a Standing Ovation award, as the top North Carolina vineyard and or winery in Metro Magazine’s 2007 MetroBravo Awards.
• Readers voted for the award based on taste, quality and overall excellence, and the firm will be featured in the July issue of Metro Magazine.
• An event honoring the recipients of the MetroBravo Awards is scheduled for Thursday, Sept. 27 at the Koka Booth Amphitheatre in Cary.
• For more information, visit http://www.metronc.com.

Quotes:
“It is an honor to be named the best winery in the Triangle,” said Winkler. “We focus on handcrafting our wines with the best grapes in North Carolina to have a distinctive high-quality product.”

About Chatham Hill Winery:
Chatham Hill Winery, established in 1999 as the first winery in the Raleigh/Durham/Chapel Hill area, is a boutique winery hosting wine tasting, winery tours as well as corporate functions and meetings. Its mission is to produce distinctive, handcrafted wines of high quality from the best grapes grown in North Carolina. The winery currently produces two distinctive brands of wines: premium vinifera wines under the Chatham Hill label, and a line of unique semi-sweet fruit infused wines under the Sweet Carolina label. In the last two years, after Wojciechowski and Winkler assumed full ownership of Chatham Hill Winery, the company has experience double-digit growth each year. Currently annual case production averages about 6,000 per year. For more information visit their Web site at http://www.chathamhillwine.com.

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Patty Briguglio
MMI Associates, Inc.
919-233-6600
patty@mmimarketing.com

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