Waiting, Watching and Worrying – Anticipating a Successful 2022 Harvest

Elise Stimac2016, 2018, 2021, Articles, Blog, Growing, Harvest, Oregon Pinot Noir, Red Wine, Seasonal Weather, Vineyard, Vintages, Wine TastingLeave a Comment

Grape clusters before veraison in Torio Vineyard during our 2022 growing season.

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

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Three Feathers Vineyard in July 2022

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

Three Feathers Record Harvest after a beautiful 2021 Vineyard Season

Elise Stimac2020, Articles, Growing, Harvest, Our Wines, People, Red Wine, Seasonal Weather, Storytelling, Vineyard, Vintages, White WinesLeave a Comment

Fall morning light and distant view from Three Feathers Vineyard Block 2

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 Vineyard Growing Season 2021

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Three Feathers family members gathered together for a portrait session Summer 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

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Black and white pinhole photograph of snow-ladden formal gardens at Three Feathers Estate.

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