About a half mile up the road past Bethel Heights Vineyard, directly above Temperance Hill Vineyard, is the Feldman family tree farm. And that’s where you can find our tasting room and Cellar Club manager, Kate Crowe (née Feldman) and her daughter Baylie these days, getting ready for the Christmas Tree harvest. Visitors to Bethel [...]
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Just a little further up Bethel Heights Road
Posted in Out and About in Wine Country, tagged Bethel Heights Vineyard, Douglas fir, Eola Hills, Feldman Tree Farm, fresh Christmas trees, Kate Crowe, Noble fir, oak savannah, sustainable forestry, Temperance Hill Vineyard, Willamette Valley on November 13, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Vintage 2008: The season ends in a golden glow
Posted in 2008 Harvest, Block by Blog, Out and About in Wine Country, tagged 2008 vintage, Bethel Heights Cellar Club, Canary Hill Vineyard, Cristom Vineyard, Eola Hills, Temperance Hill Vineyard, terry casteel, Vic Winquist, Witness Tree Vineyard, Zenith Vineyard on November 7, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Last Saturday turned out to be the last sunny day of the season, and luckily it was the very day of our Cellar Club fall party. Club members got to soak up the sunshine and the golden glow of the vineyard in the full glory of its fall foliage, taste the first wine of [...]
Vintage 2008 – Harvest starts Saturday – Take a front row seat
Posted in 2008 Harvest, Block by Blog, Out and About in Wine Country, tagged bethel heights, Eola Hills, Eola-Amity Hills Cuvée, harvest, Oregon wine country, pat dudley, pinot noir, Portland Monthly, vintage 2008, Willamette Valley on October 9, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The sun has been shining for the last three days. Ben has sniffed, tasted, and measured, and everyone finally agrees the grapes in our early-ripening blocks are ready. We are all set to start bringing in fruit this Saturday, October 11.
This is the best time of the year to visit Bethel Heights, where you can [...]
Summer Visiting – not over yet!
Posted in Out and About in Wine Country, tagged Bethel Heights Vineyard, Bradley Johnson, Cristom Vineyard, Eola Hills, Lynn Rosetto Kasper, Oregon Pinot Camp, pat dudley, Randi Lee, Red and White Wines, St. Innocent, Temperance Hill Vineyard, The Splendid Table, The Spotted Pig, Van Duzer Corridor, Willamette Valley, Winetastetv.com, winetonite.com, Witness Tree Vineyard, Zenith Vineyard on September 18, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Summer is certainly not over yet at Bethel Heights. It started a month late, and we’re going to make it last as long as we can. We’re keeping our tasting room open full time through October, instead of going back to weekends-only after Labor Day like we used to do, and we are continuing to [...]
Three Rivers Wine Auction….who gets those wine donations, anyway?
Posted in Out and About in Wine Country, tagged Bernard Callebaut Chocolaterie, Cristom, Elk Cove Vineyard, marilyn webb, Paul Gerrie, Ron Cameron, Three Rivers Land Conservancy, Tom Gerrie on September 16, 2008 | 1 Comment »
I remember when we were first getting started as a winery, and the calls began coming in to donate wine for various causes. An old timer in the business said to me, tongue in cheek, “you know you can give it all away really easy.” Wow….such an easy marketing plan.
Over the years we’ve gotten [...]
Steve, Ken and Mike take a hula lesson
Posted in Out and About in Wine Country, The Vineyard Life, tagged A to Z Wineworks, Beaux Frères, bethel heights, Bill Hatcher, Brick House, Cristom Vineyards, Don Lange, Doug Tunnell, Eileen Gerrie, Evesham Wood, freedom hill vineyard, ken wright, Lange Winery, Linda Kaplan, Mike Etzel, My First Crush, Oregon Pinot Camp, Panther Creek, pat dudley, Paul Gerrie, Penner-Ash, Steve Doerner, terry casteel, Thomas Winery on September 4, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The cellar at Cristom Vineyards, just around the corner from Bethel Heights, was packed with wine country stars a couple of weeks ago, when Paul and Eileen Gerrie put on a Hawaiian style luau to celebrate Steve Doerner’s thirty years as a winemaker, and it was not only the pig who got roasted. Steve took [...]
International Pinot Noir Celebration (IPNC) 2008
Posted in Out and About in Wine Country, tagged Ben Casteel, Bethel Heights Flat Block Pinot Noir, Bindi Wines, biodynamic viticulture, Brasa Restaurant, Bryan Hill, Cafe Soriah, Domaine Chevalier, Domaine Michel Lafarge, Felton Road, Hirsch Winery, International Pinot Noir Celebration, IPNC, Littorai Wines, LIVE, Marché Restaurant, Megan Moffatt, mimi casteel, Rocky Maselli, Sustainability, ted casteel, Westrey Wine Co. on August 16, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
IPNC was all about sustainability this year – right up our alley. Our own Ted Casteel, founder of Oregon’s LIVE program, and our 2006 Flat Block Pinot Noir, represented Oregon on the international panel for the main seminar on “Sustainability without Sacrifice,” along with Frédéric Lafarge (Domaine Michel Lafarge, Burgundy), Michael Dhillon (Bindi Wines, Australia), [...]
Wine Family Wedding atop Freedom Hill
Posted in Out and About in Wine Country, tagged dusschee, freedom hill vineyard, jessie casteel, ken wright, mark gould, Mark Vlossak, mimi casteel, pat dudley, ted casteel, terry casteel, wedding on August 12, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
McKenzie Dusschee was a gorgeous, gracious bride last Saturday, August 9th, overlooking her family’s Freedom Hill Vineyard. I didn’t manage to grab many photos of her, however, as I was too distracted by the dangerous dance moves of Mark ‘Freaky V’ Vlossak.
Continue at your own risk.
Jessie Casteel
Oregon Pinot Camp 2008
Posted in Out and About in Wine Country, tagged Adelsheim, bethel heights, Casteel, Chardonnay, Chehalem, Gewurtztraminer, OPC, Pinot Blanc, Pinot Camp, Riesling on July 10, 2008 | 1 Comment »
I remember when we were standing around at a typical road show wine tasting in 1998, in a typical hotel ballroom in Chicago, behind our typical white tablecloths, in alphabetical order: Adelsheim, Bethel Heights, Chehalem… David and Harry and I saying to each other how “this could be a tasting from anywhere – [...]
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