Announcing our 2022 Harvest Party Wine Tasting Open House 

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Pinot Noir Précoce varietal at Three Feathers Estate just befor

2022 Harvest Party Wine Tasting Open House  Sunday, September 25th 2022 from 12 noon to 5 pm | Tasting fee $25 Explore 503 Members from Cellar 503 Taste for Free along with Three Feathers Flight Club Members! 19569 SW Finnigan Hill Road Hillsboro, OR 97123  Harvest Party at Three Feathers – Visit the Vineyards and Taste our 2021 Pinots… This … Read More

Waiting, Watching and Worrying – Anticipating a Successful 2022 Harvest

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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 2021 Pinot Noirs – New Vendors, Venues & Partnerships

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Three Feathers 2021 vintage Pinot Noir in neutral French oak barrels.

Three Feathers 2021 Pinot Noirs – New Vendors, Venues & Partnerships Our Three Feathers 2021 Pinot Noirs are in the pipeline, to be bottled in August! We already bottled our 2021 Pinot Gris in March.  The release came at our May 29th Memorial Weekend Open House and was well received.  Our Pinot Gris has a characteristic fruitfulness created by our … Read More

Pinot POP in the Papers – The Oregonian & Oregon Live

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Photo by Michael Alberty, published in The Oregonian, including Three Feathers Pinot POP.

Pinot POP in the Papers – the Oregonian & Oregon Live Michael Alberty from the Oregonian just published an article about affordable Willamette Valley Pinots for the summer and we are thrilled that our single-clone Oregon Sparkling Wine – Pinot POP – is featured! 2020 Three Feathers Estate ‘Pinot Pop’ How fun to find a nice sparking pinot noir for … Read More

Three Feathers Wines at the US Ambassador’s Residence in Paris, France

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Three Feathers Wines at the US Ambassador’s Residence in Paris, France during an exceptional tasting with the Oregon Wine Board in May 2022.

Three Feathers Wines travel to the US Ambassador’s Residence in Paris, France for a European Wine Tasting Event Article & Photos by Elise Prudhomme Three Feathers Wines traveled to France in May 2022 for a European Wine Tasting Event. The California Wine Institute invited the Oregon Wine Board to participate in a gala presentation at the US Ambassador’s Residence in … Read More

A Fabulous French-American Tale of Two Vineyards

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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

Tasting Notes from Paris with Love

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Tasting notes illustrated by a photographic still life for Three Feathers 2018 Blanc de Noirs.  Photograph by Elise Prudhomme.

Tasting Notes from Paris with Love – Collective Intelligence Wine Tasting Workshop in Paris, France Tasting Notes from Paris is the continuation of our cross-cultural wine story. As revealed in our previous article Smuggled!, Three Feathers wines have been traveling to France for several years now. In the spirit of Pinot Noir grape vines themselves that traveled across the Atlantic … Read More

Three Feathers Partner Highlight | Elise Prudhomme

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Christine (left), Cynthia (middle) and Elise (right) pose for a summer photoshoot in Three Feathers vineyard.

Three Feathers Partner Highlight | Elise Prudhomme The Three Feathers Estate & Vineyard management team is composed of three hard-working, talented and dynamic women devoting their energy to families, careers and this Estate and Vineyard. This month we are proud to highlight the endeavors of partner Elise Prudhomme, the creative backbone of Three Feathers.  Elise’s contribution to the marketing and … Read More

Birds of a Feather

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Close-up on the nose of a McDonnell Douglas VC-9C USA Air Force presidential airplane that served chief executives and their staffs from 1975 to 2005, Evergreen Aviation & Space Museum, McMinnville, Oregon.

Birds of a Feather flock together aboard the USS Theodore Roosevelt Three Feathers and their children will be presenting our 2016 Pinot Noir at a dinner for members and guests of the Theodore Roosevelt Association at the Hilton in Mission Valley, San Diego on Sunday, June 18. Then, on June 19, we will be embarking on a day-long cruise aboard … Read More