Lady Oyster Featured in Portland Press Herald's The Wrap

On August 28th, we were featured in the Portland Press Herald’s food column, The Wrap for the launch of Lady Oyster Tours & Tastings this summer. As a young business, this provides wonderful validation that what we’re creating is new, exciting, and worth talking about! Here's the excerpt:

OYSTER TOURS AND TASTINGS

A new Phippsburg-based company featuring oyster farm tours and guided oyster tastings launched this summer.

Owner Virginia Shaffer said her business, Lady Oyster Tours & Tastings, is “all centered around oyster appreciation and tourism, and how we can really connect people more with the social, environmental and cultural sides of Maine through shellfish.”

Lady Oyster offers farm tours ($375) five days a week, in partnership with the charter boat company North East Salt Water.

The company also features a variety of tasting experiences, like a Rooftop Sunset Tasting ($85, including wine and food pairings). “We work through an oyster tasting wheel and I teach oyster etiquette, tell farm stories and a little local gossip – all sorts of fun things around aquaculture that people wouldn’t normally receive at the raw bar,” Shaffer said of the tastings. “I want people to leave with a more unique and special relationship to Maine seafood.”