Dr. Kerry Ringer’s new role as Washington State University Extension enologist and assistant food scientist will take her sniffing around vineyards and wineries as she studies the scent of grapes. Ringer, an Ellensburg, Washington, native who majored in biology at Western Washington University and received her doctorate in molecular plant sciences at WSU, joined the viticulture and enology research and Extension team in August. Ringer has a broad background in the wine and food science industries. She developed a wine quality program at Covey Run Winery and was co-founder of a plant and process development company where she helped invent […]