The Washington State Grape Society presented three industry awards at the annual meeting in November in Grandview, Washington. Art den Hoed, a 16-year member of the Grape Society who served three years as the group’s president, received the 2016 Walter Clore Award for his service to the industry. At age 22, the Sunnyside High School graduate took over operations of his father’s Sunnyside, Washington, farm, then 340 acres. Today, den Hoed lives in the house he grew up in, and the ranch is thousands of acres. A father of four, den Hoed runs the ranch with the help of two […]