Walla Walla Valley VINEA

2007 SUMMER TOUR

Our summer tour featured a look at three VINEA VIneyards, comparing locations and farming practices within each. We saw Figgins Estate Vineyard up Millcreek, an area known for high rainfall each year. Our group headed to Milton-Freewater next to look at HEather hill vineyard, located on some of the valley's driest ground. From there we traveled just up the road to see Waliser vineyards, farmed with 90% biological applications. our morning of tours ended at beresan winery, offered by Tom waliser, with a very nice lunch sponsored by jims supply company and catered by doug case of jims supply.

thank you all who joined us this year - we had a great turnout and look forward to next year.

**We'd like to offer a big thank you to Tom waliser for offering his beautiful winery as a place for us to lunch.

**also, we'd like to Thank doug case for putting on such a great spread - it was a most enjoyable end to a great day!

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VINEA EDucation DAY - March 16, 2007

"ALTERNATIVE PEST Management"

Our 2007 Education Day was a great success. We had a wonderful turnout considering that it was one of our more beautiful days so far this spring. We enjoyed comments from Dan Kent, director of Salmon-Safe. He gave us a great overview of where Salmon-Safe is heading, showed us some wonderful advertising campaigns for some big name companies such as NIKE, and gave our crowd a nice look at where VINEA fits in to all that.

We featured four speakers on our topic of "Alternative Pest Management". They covered types of pests, natural ways to combat them, predators, vineyard management techniques, and finally biological products that are coming on the market to help with more sustainable vineyard management. The speakers did a great job with their presentations and were met with a lot of questions from the crowd.

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IN THE NEWS
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* SEATTLE MAGAZINE *
March 2007
Features:

VINEA Winemakers and their move toward sustainability. Check out the link below for a PDF view of this awesome article. Congrats VINEA members on your recognition! This is a huge step in the right direction.

SEATTLE MAGAZINE ARTICLE

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19 VINEA Vineyards begin 2-year IOBC/LIVE Certification process
September 2006

September 2006 marked the beginning of a two year LIVE and IOBC certification process for 19 VINEA Vineyards. Vineyard inspections were performed by a contracted LIVE inspector and we are hoping to complete our first year of certification by the end of March 2007. After the first completed year in the certification process, the applying vineyards will be Salmon-Safe certified with no additional inspections required.

It is the start of a very exciting journey for VINEA. We are hoping to secure a concrete merge with LIVE by the end of 2007, which could potentially mean that VINEA membership would mean an automatic LIVE membership as well.

Below is a link for the press release for the VINEA/LIVE collaboration.

VINEA/LIVE Press Release Sept/06