AUGUST NEWS
Wines served at presidential summit
N O RTH WEST
Moone-Tsai Winery's 2008 Napa Valley
Cabernet Sauvignon was served during the
two-day summit in June between President Obama and Chinese President Xi Jinping at the Sunnylands estate in Rancho
Sapporo
Mirage. Other wines served at the summit included Iron Horse Vineyards sparkling wine and Ridge Geyserville Sonoma
County Zinfandel.
C EN TRAL
Precept purchases
Yakima Valley vineyard
Precept Wine purchased
the 174-acre "Skyfall"
vineyard in Washington's Yakima Valley.
The company plans to
plant more than 100
vineyard acres.
Winery group awards scholarships
Wilson Artisan Wineries awarded $25,000
Tokyo
in Nagoya
scholarships to 23 children of Sonoma
Osaka
County vineyard workers. Ken and Diane
Hiroshima
Wilson founded the scholarship program
in 2001. Details: sonomafb.org.
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Father, son team up at Andrew Will
Winery reopens after fire
Chris Camarda, owner and winemaker of
Andrew Will Winery in Vashon, Wash., announced that his son Will Camarda would
join the winery as assistant winemaker.
Details: andrewwill.com.
Less than a year after a devastating June
23, 2012, fire, Miletta Vista Winery in St.
Paul, Neb., reopened for business. Owners Mick and Loretta McDowell began
rebuilding the winery soon after the fire
and were able to reopen their tasting room
June 14. Details: milettavistawinery.com.
Winemaker at Howell Mountain Vineyards
Bryan
Kane
Bryan Kane is the
new winemaker at
Howell Mountain
Vineyards in Napa
Valley. Kane already
helps make wine
at other Howell
Mountain wineries
and is currently the
winemaker for The
Winery SF.
Washington Wine Foundation earns grant
The Washington Wine Foundation received
a $174,000 grant to develop safety training
materials for small to mid-sized wineries.
Materials will be available by July 2014.
Wisconsin winery opens restored cave
Wollersheim Winery in Prairie Du Sac,
Wis., opened a cave that the owners claim
was dug out by the "father of California
Hogue named to Hall of Fame
viticulture," Agoston Haraszthy, in the
Mike Hogue, who co-founded Hogue
1840s. Philippe and Julie Coquard, memCellars, was inducted into the Legends
bers of the Wollersheim family, renovated
of Washington Wine Hall of Fame at The
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niversary. Details: wollersheim.com.
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