News and Updates

June 24-26: WSU Wine and Jazz Festival

BY Dennis Farrell, Student Writer RICHLAND, Wash. – The Washington State University Viticulture and Enology program, WSU Tri-Cities and the Auction of Washington Wines are partnering together for the second annual Wine and Jazz Festival, offering live music, wine tasting and the opportunity for attendees to help the Washington wine industry. The festival starts at […]

Chateau Ste. Michelle partners with local restaurants to support future Pacific Northwest grape growers and winemakers

Washington’s founding winery Chateau Ste. Michelle is partnering with Washington restaurants to support the eighth-annual Raise a Glass, Fund a Scholarship program to benefit viticulture and enology programs at Washington State University and other Northwest universities. More than 300 restaurants will participate in the program that runs now through the end of December 2015.

Enology certificate students attend first camp at WSU Wine Science Center

Thirty-two students in the Washington State University enology certificate program met their peers and professors face-to-face for the first time during a weekend of winemaking lab activities and lectures held at the Ste. Michelle Wine Estates WSU Wine Science Center September 12-13, 2015.

New Study Shows Growing Economic Impact for Washington State’s Wine Industry

SEATTLE, Wash. – Wine sales and production in Washington State are growing, reports a new study released today by Washington State Wine. The study details the economic and fiscal impacts of wine and wine grapes in Washington State and measures the effect of jobs, labor income and business revenues directly supported by wine and related activities such as tourism. The total economic impact of the Washington State wine industry was $4.8 billion in 2013, up from $3.5 billion in 2009.