Our 2022 Vintage takes us back to the 1990s | Harvest Wrap-up Wrapping up this year’s harvest and our 2022 Vintage takes us back to the 1990s. A cooler, wetter Oregon when harvest was pushed late into the year and ice wine was the latest thing. Compared to recent vintages, bud-break was a full three weeks later (May 1st on … Read More
Victor’s Infallible Smoked Turkey Weber-style
Victor’s Infallible Smoked Turkey Weber-style This lip-smacking Smoked Turkey recipe is back by popular demand! Friends from out-of-town came to dinner. After a long week of hot weather spent tending the vines, we wanted to serve them something perfect from the barbecue and decided that a good wholesome smoked turkey would fit the bill. After all, who says that turkey … Read More
Waste Not, Want Not | The Worlds Most Expensive Jelly
Brix, Birds and The Worlds Most Expensive Jelly Waste Not, Want Not is part of our continuing effort to find creative uses for our harvested Pinot Noir grapes that don’t go into wine-making. As I explained last year in my recipe for Blackberry Pinot Noir Sauce, I have a problem with wasting grapes. During pre-harvest months, while we wait for … Read More
Announcing our 4th Annual Memorial Weekend Wine Tasting Event
Announcing our 4th Annual Memorial Weekend Wine Tasting Event Sunday, May 30, 2021 from 11 am to 5 pm | Tasting fee $15 19569 SW Finnigan Hill RoadHillsboro, OR 97123 Christine | 503-536-3083 | christine@threefeathersestate.comSandra | 503-701-5467 | sandra@threefeathersestate.com Something Old, Something New Our 2021 Memorial Weekend Wine Tasting Event will feature our first vintage of Pinot Gris. A new … Read More
2020 Vintage Line-up | Bottling Three Feathers Wines
2020 Vintage Line-up | Bottling Three Feathers Wines It is time to start bottling our 2020 wines! We had a good year in the vineyards with ideal weather conditions, a perfect mix of warm days and cool nights. Despite the valley fires, we had good ripening and a plentiful harvest from mid-September to October 10th. We will be debuting four … 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
Clementine Cake, a Winter Delight
Clementine Cake, a Winter Delight | two recipe versions, including gluten and dairy-free Winter is upon us and the markets are full of zesty organic clementines, mandarins, kumquats, juicy oranges and lemons in all sizes. Clementine Cake is unique in that it uses the entire fruit, including peel, pith and pulp. We have experimented with different types of citrus fruit, … 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
Three Feathers Harvest Open House & Club Member pick-up
Harvest Open House & Club Member pick-up | Invitation only Sunday, October 18, 2020 from 11 am to 4 pm | Tasting fee $15 As October approaches, it is time once again to select wines for your Three Feathers Flight Club shipment. This fall we are offering the 2018 Reserve 667 exclusively to Club Members. A luscious Pinot Noir of … Read More
Geologically speaking | Three Feathers terroir
More about the Geology at Three Feathers I have always had an interest in Geology and Natural History but it was only moving to The Pacific Northwest, where evidence of geological turbulence is all around us that I more fully appreciated the instability of nature. “Solid as a Rock” is a complete falsehood. We see around us the constant changes … Read More