WSU's Ste. Michelle Wine Estates Wine Science Center Host Inaugural Event

You can never stop learning especially when it comes to wine. Welcome to Monday's Fruit Grower Report, I'm Susan Allen. The inaugural wine research seminar called WAVE held July 14th was a huge success according to Melissa Hansen Research Program Manager at The Washington Wine Commission.

HANSEN: The meeting room was filled and we had a waiting list of winemakers and wine grape growers. The purpose of WAVE is to showcase research that the industry is funding through the wine commission and help facilitate the transfer of research information into the hands of users. We also wanted to bring industry members inside the new research industry they helped built.

That would be WSU's new Ste. Michelle Wine Estates Wine Science Center in Richland. Why do you think you had such a great turnout.

HANSEN: I believe that we had such a great turnout because of the need that WAVE is seeking to fill and that need is the venue where in- depth research information can be shared in a format digestible to growers and winemakers. If you missed WAVE all of the speaker presentations can be found on the wine commission's web page at www.washingtonwine.org.and look for the research section, and under research go to meetings and minutes. We are beginning to plan WAVE 17 and hope to announce those dates shortly.

WAVE gave the wine industry an opportunity to see how their research dollars have been spent bringing industry and academia together