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APRIL NEWS NORTHWEST Growers raise $7.4 million for WSU Washington's grape- growers and winemak- ers raised $7.4 million for Washington State University through as- sessments on 2011 grape and wine production. The funding is desig- nated for a new wine science center at WSU. Ste. Michelle Wine Estates and its parent company, Altria Group Inc., also chipped in $1 million to support wine science programs at the university. Details: winecampaign.org. Sapporo OsakaAlainFouquet_Aug06 5/17/06 10:57 AM Page 1 Hiroshima Japan events and guest relations. Most recently, Gillespie had been running his own res- Roger Gillespie Nagoya Tokyo Hester Creek hires hospitality director Roger Gillespie is the new director of hospitality at Hester Creek Es- tate Winery in Oli- ver, B.C. Gillespie will oversee the wine shop, special taurant, the Victoria Road Deli & Bistro. Details: hestercreek.com. Lion Nathan USA changes name Lion Nathan changed its name to Distin- guished Vineyards & Wine Partners. The company's domestic brands are Argyle Winery in Oregon's Willamette Valley and MacRostie Winery in Sonoma, Calif. CENTRAL the start of the year. While focused on Mis- souri, Baker said he has scheduled jobs in Kansas, Illinois and southern Iowa. De- tails: oldwoolamcustombottling.com. Noted food and wine critic dies One of the Midwest's most well-known wine writers, Joe Pollack, died March 9 at age 81. Pollack was a long-time food and wine critic with the St. Louis Post-Disptach newspaper, and in recent years he and his wife ran the blog St. Louis Eats and Drinks. Pollack was remembered for helping raise awareness of the Missouri industry through his writing and improving it through his criticism. De- tails: stlouiseats.typepad.com. EAST Mobile bottling service opens in Missouri Brent Baker opened Old Woolam Custom Bottling in Owensville, Mo., the first mo- bile bottling service in the state. Baker said he developed his system after researching other mobile operations in California and other winemaking regions. He said he's been fine-tuning his line since opening at Schools to establish research vineyard Cornell Cooperative Extension (CCE) and the Finger Lakes Community College (FLCC) plan to build a 2.5-acre teaching and demonstration vineyard at the An- thony Road Wine Co. in the Yates County www.alainfouquet.com alainfouquet@aol.com Wines & Vines APRiL 2012 21