As seen in Wine Country Women of the Willamette Valley and Walla Walla!
As seen in Wine Country Women of the Willamette Valley and Walla Walla!
Tastings – Fall 2024
Clusters and Skins and Juice, Oh My! There are star clusters and then there are whole clusters. One flavors our night sky and the other adds character to our wine. Winemaker Tony Rynders must make hundreds of decisions about what happens with the grapes between the time they hit the sorting bins and the time the wine hits your lips. [...]
Seasons – Fall 2024
2024 Harvest and Pressing Activities Tony says the 2024 harvest is the best vintage this decade. We worship Tony as a wine-making god, and this writer (the best wine writer in his family, after all) cannot help but appreciate the truth and wisdom of Tony’s words. Seriously though, Tony is hedging his bets a bit. Sometimes, we know that a [...]
Place – Fall 2024
Bees, Lavender and Honey What is it with lavender, bees and honey? Hang around the Saffron Fields tasting room pond in mid to late summer and you might begin to notice that the whole place is literally abuzz with activity. Thousands of bees drift among the purple lavender plantings gathering nectar to take back to the local honey factory, AKA [...]
Musings – Fall 2024
Owners Musings – Star Gazing Those who know me know I like twinkly lights. In the summer, I delight in hosting our annual July fireworks display, winner of the Best Winery Event in the Valley in 2023 and 2024. Come December, the tasting room grounds transform into a wondrous delight as we string the thousands of lights for our annual [...]
3rd of July for the Win: #1 Wine Event – Best of the Valley Award 2024!
Our guests, the local community, and Willamette Living Magazine agree that our 3rd of July Fireworks is an event not to be missed. Saffron Fields Vineyard is honored to receive a 2024 Best of the Valley Award! Thank you to the readers of Willamette Living Magazine for recognizing the 3rd of July fireworks extravaganza created by OrWa Pyro. Once you’ve [...]
Celebrating Our Win: #1 Wine Tasting Room – Best of the Valley Award 2024!
The Tasting Room at Saffron Fields Vineyard has been honored with a 2024 Best of the Valley Award by Willamette Living Magazine! Thank you to the readers of Willamette Living Magazine for recognizing the art, architecture, and garden of Saffron Fields Vineyard! Our success would not be possible without the votes of our incredible visitors.
Place – Summer 2024
The Story of Saffron Fields Art As you turn off of Laughlin Road and feel that familiar crunch of gravel beneath your tires, one of the first things you may notice is the pair of people standing on the crest overlooking the tasting room koi pond. But wait, wasn’t that same couple standing in that exact same location [...]
Seasons – Summer 2024
Thoughts on the 2022 Vintage Remember April of 2022? That was, like, so long ago. That was so Covid time. That was wipe-it-out-of-our-memory time. It was also a time when a late frost so damaged the early-budding Pinot Noir vines in the northern Willamette Valley that some growers feared total crop loss. Of course, wine drinkers want to remember 2022 [...]
Musings – Summer 2024
Owners Musings – Garden Love Saffron Fields Vineyad owner Angela Summers leading Japanese Garden private tour, Yamhill-Carlton AVA, Willamette Valley, Oregon I have loved gardening for as long as I can remember. My mom has a photo of me when I was three, wearing a swimsuit and holding a hose in the garden. Our home garden grew tomatoes, [...]
Tastings – Summer 2024
The Science of Wine Tasting I thought I knew all there was to know about wine tasting: swirl your glass and look thoughtfully at it, sip and wash it around your mouth, spit it out if it stinks and chug the bottle if it’s good, yadda, yadda, yadda. Not to be ignored is the fine art of looking entitled while [...]
Seasons – Spring 2024
Spring in the Vineyard Glance up the hillside as you saunter towards the Saffron Fields tasting room and you may see Daniel Fey’s crew up among the vines. What they are doing up there depends on the month and the whims of Mother Nature. Come spring, several tasks require attention, some more mechanical, such as placing and moving trellis wire, [...]
