The Seattle Met published an article on the five oyster species grown in Washington. Taylor Shellfish farms four of them! 

“Brothers Bill and Paul Taylor had flown in from Washington state with a cooler full of their Virginicas, grown along the thickly pined shores of the Totten Inlet, in the southern reaches of Puget Sound… Those Virginicas, tasted by a 10-judge panel at that Rhode Island invitational with the aid of lemon wedges and hot sauce and certainly bottles of beer, earned the prize for best flavor and placed second overall.”

Check out the full article here.