Waiting, Watching and Worrying – Anticipating a Successful 2022 Harvest In anticipation of a successful 2022 harvest, a certain degree of waiting, watching and worrying is in process at Three Feathers. At Three Feathers and Torio Vineyard, we have reached the stage in the grapes development that the fruit is letting us see its potential. Comparing photos from this same … Read More
A 2022 Vintage Tale – How Beautifully Blue The Sky
A 2022 Vintage Tale – How Beautifully Blue The Sky A 2022 Vintage Tale reminds us of lyrics from Gilbert & Sullivan’s – The Pirates of Penzance. We find ourselves spending a lot of time minding the weather as our 2022 wine growing season unfolds. How beautifully blue the sky,The glass is rising very high,Continue fine I hope it may,And … Read More
A Gardener’s Palette | Gardening at Three Feathers
A Gardener’s Palette | Growing and gardening is a passion at Three Feathers Text by Christine Stimac, photos © Elise Prudhomme A Gardener’s Palette is how I would like to present my work at Three Feathers. All my life I have enjoyed gardening. As a child we lived on acreage and we raised our own meat and vegetables. There was … Read More
Giving Thanks, A Celebration of Gratitude at Three Feathers
Giving Thanks, A Celebration of Gratitude at Three Feathers Celebration of Gratitude is how we describe Thanksgiving this year. Our Gratitude List includes a successful Harvest, increasing sales and fabulous supportive team members. For these reasons and more, We Feel the Love and wish you all a very Happy Thanksgiving! View this post … Read More
Three Feathers Record Harvest after a beautiful 2021 Vineyard Season
Three Feathers Record Harvest after a beautiful 2021 Vineyard Season Three Feathers Record Harvest after a beautiful 2021 Vineyard Season! What a season we had this year! Our vineyard bore large luscious and plentiful clusters of Pinot Noir and Pinot Gris, despite several weather scares and lack of rain. After the disastrous fires of 2020, every one in the Willamette … Read More
Three Feathers Celebrates Harvest with a Wine Tasting Event
Three Feathers Celebrates Harvest with a Wine Tasting Event Three Feathers Celebrates Harvest with a Wine Tasting Event on Sunday, October 17, 2020 from 12 noon to 5 pm | Tasting fee $20. This fall we are introducing the first vintage of our rare Pinot Noir Madeleine. A ruby colored wine with light tannins and a strong finish, we picked … Read More
Precious Précoce | Introducing Three Feathers Pinot Madeleine 2020
Precious Précoce | Introducing Three Feathers Pinot Madeleine 2020 Precious Précoce, as the name implies, has a unique attribute that it blooms almost two weeks earlier than other Pinot Noir and, as a consequence, the grapes are ripe two weeks earlier. This is a plus at our high elevation when the harvest can coincide with fall rains and cooling temperatures. … Read More
Three Feathers Vineyard Growing Season 2021
Three Feathers Vineyard Growing Season Report 2021 What a fabulous year we are having so far! Weather conditions have generally been ideal with a couple of notable exceptions in June. Bud break was the end of April and bloom came mid-June, forecasting harvest at the end of September. In early June we experienced two days of heavy rain. This was … Read More
Oregon Rainfall
Kicking off the 2021 Vineyard Growing Season with Rain Oregon and Washington have a reputation for rainy weather. I have never lived anywhere where there is such a preoccupation with rainfall. The truth is that here in the northern Willamette Valley we have a wet season and a dry season. Normal rain patterns are wet winters and dry summers. Average … Read More
Wrapping up Three Feathers Harvest 2020
Three Feathers Harvest Report 2020 As I write this, sitting in a comfortable chair with my feet up, it is hard to believe that the Harvest was a mere month ago. I have only now started to calm down and not feel that I must leap out of bed at 5 AM to work. The rains have finally arrived in … Read More