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22 WINES&VINES Collector's Edition WINE INDUSTRY NEWS Healdsburg hired Karen Maley as its new general manager. Prior to joining Robert Young, Maley was the general manager at Electric Sky Wine, held a leadership role at StackTeck Wines, was a founding partner at Stryker Sonoma Winery in Alexander Valley and worked as a senior director of marketing at E. & J. Gallo Winery. Donum Estate's new winery The Donum Estate announced it expected to complete a new winemaking facility, permitted to produce up to 12,000 cases of wine annually, by the end of 2018; the first vintage made in the new facility will be 2019. It is designed by San Francisco-based MH Architects, the same team that designed the Donum hospitality space that opened in September 2017. The winemaking facility is located on Donum's 187-acre estate in the Carneros region of Sonoma County. C. Mondavi names new CFO C. Mondavi & Family of St. Hel- ena hired Claire Hobday as the company's chief financial officer. Most recently, Hobday acted as director of finance and account- ing of wine entities for Pacific Union Company. In this role she provided financial leadership and reporting for wine entities such as Harlan Estate Winery and BOND Estates. Hobday received an executive MBA in wine busi- ness at Sonoma State University in 2018, and also holds a Level II WSET certification. NORTHWEST Cooper Mountain Vineyard purchases Olenik Vineyard Cooper Mountain Vineyards pur- chased the 50-acre Olenik Vine- yard in the Chehalem Mountains AVA in Willamette Valley. The purchase of the vineyard brings Cooper Mountain Vineyards' holdings to a total of five vine- yards and 152 planted acres. The winery celebrated its 40th vintage with the 2018 harvest. New Winemaker at Chehalem Winery Chehalem Winery in Newberg, Ore., promoted Katie Santora to winemaker. Santora has been with the winery for seven years, hired as assistant winemaker in 2012 and promoted to associate winemaker in 2016. She received an enology and viticultural degree from the University of California, Davis. Corcelettes buys 132 acres in Similkameen Corcelettes Estate Winery in Keremeos, British Columbia an- nounced its purchase of 132 acres of land on the Keremeos Upper Branch in the Similka- meen Valley. The property is contiguous to the winery's cur- rent estate and will support increased production of red wines. According to a state- ment announcing the purchase, Corcelettes will develop 30 acres of new vineyards over the next five years. CENTRAL New executive director of Texas group The Texas Wine & Grape Grow- ers Association Board appointed Dacota Haselwood as its new executive director. Haselwood's selection follows the resignation of the current executive director, April Mitchell, who resigned to pursue other business interests. Haselwood began her tenure with TWGGA in September of 2004 and served as executive director until late 2008. At that Katie Santora -Specializing in Tank Farm Project Management -Tanks custom designed, fabricated, and installed tanks up to 700,000 gallons capacity -Catwalks custom designed, fabricated, and installed to customer specifications -Receiving hoppers, belt and screw conveyors built and installed -Complete Marzola product line of screw presses, bladder presses, -Complete Marzola product line of screw presses, bladder presses, destemmers and dejuicers Contact Us: 559-233-7116 | www.sanitarystainless.com