Casey Cobble Awarded Powers Sabbatical
September 17, 2024 – CASHMERE, WA — Casey Cobble of 4 Feathers Wine Companies in Prosser was chosen by the Washington Wine Business Basis to obtain the 2024 $5,000 Invoice Powers Sabbatical award.
Cobble can be touring to 4 totally different wine areas throughout Europe with Jerome Barret, acclaimed glowing wine marketing consultant, in early 2025 for about 20 days. They may discover how every area leverages its benefits and challenges to make distinctive glowing wine kinds. Particularly, Cobble is all in favour of “how consistency is achieved yr after yr, how yeast cultures are ready and maintained for tirage bottling, and the way dosage ranges are chosen to steadiness phenolics and acidity.”
Institution of the Invoice Powers Sabbatical was a collaborative effort between Badger Mountain Winery and Powers Vineyard, who’ve continued funding the sabbatical award to honor the legacy of their former proprietor. Every year, one Washington state wine trade applicant is chosen for the $5,000 award to empower themselves and the Washington wine trade by touring to a longtime wine-producing area of the world to additional their studying {and professional} profession and enhance the Washington grape and wine trade with gained data. The sabbatical fund and choice course of are managed by the Washington Wine Business Basis.
As a part of the Sabbatical requirement, Cobble will report again to the trade on her international studying. By bringing this info again to the Washington wine neighborhood, Cobble hopes to assist Washington “craft terroir pushed conventional technique glowing wines that may put us on the map as among the finest glowing wine producing areas on this planet.”
Whereas finishing her Winemaking Certificates at South Seattle Neighborhood School, Cobble turned energetic within the Washington wine trade as a Cellar Assistant and Buyer Service Supervisor at Betz Household Vineyard in Redmond, WA. She rapidly rose by the ranks over the previous 14 years and is now the White and Glowing Winemaker at 4 Feathers Wine Companies in Prosser. Cobble was additionally a founding member and former Vice President of the Alliance of Ladies in Washington Wine, a 501(c)(3) non-profit group aiming to construct a protected neighborhood to encourage, join, and advance ladies and their advocates within the Washington wine trade.
Sabbatical candidates want solely 5 years of expertise within the Washington wine trade and a ardour for serving to the state’s wine neighborhood develop and thrive by analysis and exploration. Starting March 1, 2025, potential candidates might request an utility for the 2025 award at https://washingtonwinefoundation.org/sabbatical/.
Concerning the Basis: A dynamic community of wine trade professionals united by a standard imaginative and prescient: to foster a thriving Washington wine trade. As a 501(c)(3) nonprofit, the Basis facilitates, manages, and distributes funding to confront challenges and put money into options together with scholarships, trade occasions, and sustainability corresponding to pest management, clear crops, threat administration, security, and extra. By way of collaboration and partnerships, the Basis honors the trade’s heritage whereas forging a path to a flourishing future for Washington wine. To be taught extra, go to www.washingtonwinefoundation.org.
