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24 WINES&VINES June 2015 WINE INDUSTRY NEWS NORTHWEST French, Washington winemakers collaborate Ste. Michelle Wine Estates and Rhône winemakers Michel Gas- sier and Philippe Gambie have launched Tenet Wines to showcase Syrah and other Rhône varietals from Washington state. The port- folio consists of Tenet, a GSM, The Pundit, a Syrah from Wash- ington's Columbia Valley, and Le Fervent Syrah from the Costieres de Nimes in the Rhône Valley. Cha- teau Ste. Michelle winemaker Bob Bertheau and Michel Gassier are co-winemakers for Tenet Wines. Philippe Cambie is consulting enologist. The three winemakers first convened in Washington state in the fall of 2012 to taste wines from that year's just-completed harvest. They decided to begin their collaboration in the vineyard the following year in order to align vineyard management and wine- making strategies. Hedges promoted to winemaker Sarah Hedges Goedhart, daughter of Hedges Family Estate founders and owners Tom and Anne-Marie Hedges, has been promoted from assistant winemaker to head wine- maker at the Red Mountain AVA winery. Hedges joined the winery in 2006 as assistant winemaker and worked under the tutelage of her uncle, winemaker Pete Hedges, who is retiring. In addition to her time at her family's winery, Hedges has also worked at Preston of Dry Creek winery in Sonoma County. CENTRAL Losses feared in Arizona freeze Growers in southern Arizona fear they may have lost 40%-60% of their 2015 crop due to a spell of sub-freezing temperatures in late April. "Everything that was budded out just got fried," Kief Manning, owner of Kief-Joshua Vineyards, told the Associated Press. The freeze was particularly damaging because it followed a period of warm weather that had triggered significant vegetative growth in the area's vineyards. New officers for Iowa wine association The Iowa Wine Growers Association elected Cassie Bott of Fireside Win- ery in Marengo, Iowa, to the office of president of its Board of Directors and Mike Vincent of Wooden Wheel Vineyard in Keota as vice president. The board voted on nominations during a March 30 board meeting held in Des Moines. In addition to new board assignments and com- mittees, Nicole Eilers has been hired as the new marketing director for the association. EAST New plant pathologist at Penn State Carolee Bull will become head of the Department of Plant Pathology and Environmental Microbiology in Penn State's College of Agricultural Sciences effective Sept. 1. Bull is currently a research plant patholo- gist for the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Agricultural Research Service at its Crop Improvement and Protection Research Station in Salinas, Calif. Her research program focuses on detection and management of bacterial patho- gens, integrated soil and pest management in organic production systems and evaluation of disease- resistance traits in vegetable and fruit crops. Bull earned a bach- elor's degree in botany from Ohio University, a master's degree in plant pathology from Washington State University and a doctorate in Sarah Hedges Goedhart Bob Bertheau