Three Feathers Harvest Open House & Club Member pick-up

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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

Support your Local Vineyard… or Think Small

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Christine Stimac working in Torio Vineyard on Three Feathers Estate

Support your Local Vineyard… or Think Small This has been a challenging time for those in the Wine and Vineyard business – especially for the small producers. Undoubtedly you have not noticed any shortage of wine in the big box stores and supermarkets. Unlike the toilet paper aisle, the wine aisle has been fully stocked throughout this pandemic. It has … Read More

Wine Enthusiast Ratings and the NEW Laurelwood AVA!

Elise Stimac2017, 2018, Accolades, Blog, Locator Maps, Our Wines, Ratings, Red Wine, Vintages, White Wines, Wine making, Wine TastingLeave a Comment

Newly created Laurelwood sub-ava in the Chehalem Mountains AVA of the Willamette Valley in Oregon, United States.

Three Feathers 2017 Cuvée Virginia Three Feathers 2018 Blanc de Noirs Three Feathers Wines rated by Wine Enthusiast Three Feathers Estate submitted a selection of wines to critics at Wine Enthusiast for their rating this spring. Their response was an 89 point rating for our 2017 Cuvée Virginia Pinot Noir and an 86 point rating for the 2018 Blanc de … Read More

Lines on the Vines

Elise Stimac2018, 2019, Blog, Growing, Red Wine, Vineyard, White WinesLeave a Comment

Torio Vineyard growth and a new tenant

We must cultivate our own garden… Voltaire, Candide Lines on the Vines | Spring 2020 Season Already June 1st! Where did the spring go? Despite the situation worldwide with the Corona-virus, which meant for us that our schedule of wine tasting events was cancelled, the grape vines continue to grow and need tending and we have maintained a strong focus … Read More

Three Feathers 3rd annual Memorial Day Wine Tasting Open House

Elise Stimac2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, Events, Our Wines, Red Wine, Vintages, White Wines, Wine making, Wine Tasting2 Comments

Our 3rd annual Memorial Day Wine Tasting Open House | Invitation only Sunday, May 24, 2020 from 11 am to 5 pm | Tasting fee $15 This year we will be tasting three vintages of our Pinot Noir from 2016 to 2018. The 2018 Cuvée Virginia, a blend of our two Chehalem Mountains sites, will be featured for the first … Read More

A Fabulous French-American Tale of Two Vineyards

Elise Stimac2017, Articles, Blog, Our Wines, People, Storytelling, Travel Stories, Wine Tasting

A bottle of Three Feathers Estate Pinot Noir perched on a vineyard wall with the town Saint-Emilion in the background, Bordeaux region, Gironde, France.

Tale of Two Vineyards | Three Feathers Estate, Willamette Valley Oregon visits Château Pavie Macquin, Saint-Emilion Bordeaux Tale of Two Vineyards starts with a neighborly “getting to know you” over coffee in our Normand vacation home, English Channel in the distance.  A dear girlfriend wished to introduce me to two childhood friends of hers, sisters, living in Normandy and vacationing … Read More

Why Moderate Consumption of Pinot Noir Could be Good for your Health

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Three Feathers Pinot Noir beautiful legs and view over Torio Vin

I’ll drink to that! | Resveratrol and Pinot Noir By Elise Prudhomme Resveratrol has been studied and touted as powerful antioxidant since the 1970s.  In the 1990s, when scientists tried to explain how the French were able to eat rich, fatty foods like foie gras without suffering high incidences of cardiovascular disease (“The French Paradox”), resveratrol-rich red wine was thought … Read More

Join Three Feathers at the 27th Annual McMinnville Wine & Food Classic – SIP!

Elise Stimac2016, 2017, 2018, Awards, Events, Our Wines, Red Wine, Special Wine Purchase Offers, Vintages, White WinesLeave a Comment

Join us for the McMinnville 27th Annual Wine & Food Classic – SIP on March 13 – 14 – 15, 2020 Evergreen Aviation & Space Museum Friday, March 13th | 3 – 9 pm Saturday, March 14th | 11 am – 8 pmSunday, March 15th | 12 – 5 pm Three Feathers Estate – BOOTH 144Tasting fee $4 Three Feathers is … Read More