Saffron Fields Vineyard

Great selection of Pinot Noirs, $ 30 tasting flight. Nice views. Great deck with koi pond.

Completely unresponsive, overpriced and without any good wine. We left our info for them to follow up with us considering them for our wedding venue, and no one bothered to follow up. The environment came off as very stuffy as well. The building being nice is the lone saving grace

Had a great time at their Fourth of July event! Great wine, beautiful venue, very good fireworks display. Our second year in a row, and we’re already looking forward to the third.

Wine, similar to food is so personal. Frankly, food and I go way back … unlike wine. We also go way back just not as far.
While on our discovery of Portland wine country we wanted to see the most picturesque vineyard and were guided this way.
The place is amazing, it is contemporary, cozy and has one of the most amazing outside patios. I could sit there and enjoy a glass of wine day in and day out. Sadly, I was not impressed with the wine but again, it is so personal. It does not mean it is good, does not mean it is bad, just not tasty to my palate.
The scenery and the vineyard make up for the taste however!
Bring a camera and enjoy!

Probably my favorite vineyard of all we visited (and we covered quite a few).
The space is beautiful, modern with a lot of natural accents.
The ladies serving behind the counter were extremely knowledgeable and helpful. Being able to wonder around the property is fantastic and enjoyable.
Really loved this place and am slowly enjoying the wine we brought back.

Really good wine. So good that we even joined their wine club! If you are in the area, it’s a really great winery to visit.

Enjoyed the wonderful atmoshpere this weekend. Staff is very friendly and the setting is beautiful. We brought a cooler of food and ate outside.
Reclaimed wood from the onsite barn was used to build the facility, water feature/​pond designed in a Japanese Garden style and art, complete the ensemble.
Got cought up in talking about the facility, I almost forgot to talk about the wine. They have been open less than a year, but have been producing since 2010, I think. They are selling everything from 2012 and I’ll have to say, we enjoyed the whole flight including the Chardonnay. Great flavors from some of the original soils in the area. They are going to be a force to wreckin with.
We only have two places we like to mingle at for a few hours, and this would be one of them. Can’t wait to see what they have for the future!!!
Disclaimer: We live just over the hill and have to admit, we enjoyed the fireworks from our backyard. Next year, we’ll be there to enjoy.

Great location, and wonderful tasting room. The staff were very nice and did a good job of explaining the concept behind the winery and also talking about the various wines on offer. I thought the wines themselves were just ok considering the price point. The vines are very young, and despite the help of some really good wine makers I don’t think this place is ready for prime time in the competitive world of oregon pinot.

Exceptional winery with a wonderful experience including nice artwork & beautiful architecture that fits the countryside with modern flair. I really live their ponds and reuse of the old buildings to build the new winery.
Great reds with some exceptional flavor profiles. Also, make the fireworks on the 5^th of July, you’ll love it!

Five stars for the modern and gorgeous building, landscape and people. Four stars for the wine. I actually did enjoy their wines a lot but I didn’t pull the trigger on purchasing. Some other wineries were more reasonably priced.
Now… Was I ready to move in and live there forever because of the beauty of the surroundings? Definitely. If you want to try and buy I’d recommend going early before you get Pinot burnout. Or come late and just finish your day here, reveling in the scenery.

Loved this place. The wine was great. Priced well around $ 48 a bottle for Pinot. Bought two bottles. Tasting fee of $ 15 is normal around the Willamette Valley and is waived if you buy a bottle.
Loved the winemaker’s traditional Oregon style to making Pinots.
We brought our tweens and they walked around the coi pond… no coi yet but lots of tadpoles for my daughter to catch. The architecture is beautiful.
I understand they are planning on having events here. I think a birthday party in the winery would suit me fine!

We were there the 3^rd day been open. Loved the wines, specially the Saffron Fields Wine. It was like … Hey, I’m here and you’ll never forget me! I must say, all u tasted were fantabulous. Plus, if you love a gorgeous setting, beautiful reclaimed wood from their old barn & amazing blown glass… Please come. I cant wait to come back in a few years to see how it’s moving along.

But for the September review of Unilocal friend Jessica K I would not have had Saffron Fields on my radar for a planned pre-​Thanksgiving weekend wine tasting stop. So in the spirit of the season I start this review with thanks for hers and also extend her mitzvah by saying this: if you are wine tasting in the Willamette Valley go here! Fabulous new facility with intriguing architecture, gorgeous garden, spectacular views and very good first vintage wines to taste.
The owners are husband and wife, Angela Summers and Sanjeev Lahoti, who are engineers from Houston. When they purchased the property in 2004 it was farmland with a barn (that will be of interest later if you read on) with a vision for a winery and winemaking through partnerships with local experts and contractors for the former and winemakers for the latter.
FACILITY
Set on a knoll, the wine tasting room building was created by a well known architect and the surrounding Asian themed landscaping, including water feature and sculptures and patio to take in the spectacular view, by a world class landscape architect. We had a chance to enjoy time with Angela as she walked us around to look at and talk about the art displayed throughout the facility. She also talked about the awareness on the part of the contractor as the work was unfolding that this was not a building with a garden but a garden with a building. The outside is integral to the structure itself. Some parts of the garden are still a work in progress and we are eager to see outcomes on our return visits.
As to the structure, given the barn on the property could not reasonably be modified to become winery, although that was the owners’ first thought to respect the land and origins, it was disassembled and the wood from the barn used in constructing this incredible tasting room. Look at the tight grain fir that lines the walls as you come in for just one example of that. Also impressive that they used local contractors for the project and a plaque outside names them and shows the distance from the winery where the businesses are located. Very nice.
ART
A perfect pairing with wine is art and some of the art here, from a visual graphic of beautiful but poisonous flowers projected on the wall to photos of Buddhist finger poses to bronze sculpture, comes from Angela and Sanjeev’s personal collection. Some art, like a unique LED light panel display on one wall, was commissioned for the winery. What a treat to have this kind of gallery to enjoy with wine and views too.
TASTING FORMAT
Tasting flights are $ 15 and include five wines including the Saffron Fields first release of Riesling (very, very good — $ 28 /​bottle) as well as their first vintage of Pinot Noir ($ 48). The former from grapes brought in from the Columbia Valley. The latter from estate grapes was my husband’s favorite of the four Pinots poured, theirs plus three others using their grapes made by other local wine makers, such as Roots Saffron Fields Pinot Noir (which was my favorite). Great fun to taste how differently grapes from the same vineyard have nuance in the bottle based on how a winemaker treats them.
Fee is refunded with a minimal purchase of any single bottle of Pinot Noir or any $ 50 total purchase.
Metered pours in top quality stemware are offered by friendly and knowledgeable folks behind the tasting bar. During the pre Thanksgiving weekend event any tasting flight also entitled guests to enjoy a lunch of yummy petite sandwiches and fabulous cookies. (Note to self; Find this caterer!) That may be so for Thanksgiving weekend festivities too.
TASTING SPACE
Standing room at the bar. Also seating inside on a large, custom sectional as well as standard height (yahoo!) tables and chairs. More standard height seating on patio.
PARKING
A gravel lot right outside the tasting room front entry also includes two paved spaces for accessible parking. If the lot is full I imagine you’ll need to park downhill of the long gravel driveway.
ACCESSIBILITY
From parking layout to pathway in the door to the tasting room and patios outside, this is a beautifully universally accessible facility. Although required to be so by Federal civil rights laws that are nearly 25 years old, it is astounding how many winery’s ignore equal access. Kudos to the design and build team, including the owners, for getting this right so all people can get in the door.
BOTTOM LINE
Saffron Fields is fabulous all around right now. It will be fantabulous when they’ve settled in in the next year or so. What a find, thanks Jessica K!

Minimal, modern tasting room building that looks like it’s straight out of an architectural magazine? Yes. Filled with the owner’s personal art collection, which include some really nice pieces? Double-​yes. Oh, and stellar wines from a few different wine makers (showcasing multiple takes on the same grapes)? This is all sorts of awesome.
Seriously, I love tasting wines hand vs. land, and finding out how different wines from the same terroir and vintage can be when made by different folks. The labels being showcased here currently are Roots, Saffron Fields, EiEiO, and Tendril. Saffron Fields is made by Tony Rynders (as mentioned by Jessica K) who used to be the winemaker at Domaine Serene. His private label is Tendril, which I found to be the winning wine (2010 White Label) of the whole set. But all of the wines are fairly big, beautiful productions. The prices are concordant with the quality. However $ 48 for the Tendril I think is a pretty decent retail. It’s a gem.
The tasting room is still very much under construction. The building is up, but the grounds are all torn up and in process of becoming a Japanese-​style garden. It’s apt to be gorgeous. But the building alone is worth stopping in for, even if you don’t taste the wine.

Pssst! Only open for three days and I am extremely impressed. Saffron has a gorgeous ultra modern tasting room that doubles as an art gallery. Fingers crossed in 3 – 4 weeks weeks the landscaping will be done and they will have their own Japanese garden designed by the same man who did Portland’s own Japanese Garden.
And the wine? It’s good. Damn good. The Riesling is excellent. Their pinots are big. Right now they are utilizing three different winemakers but it looks like the main guy will be Tony Rynders. I liked the Roots Pinot the best.
Tasting is $ 15 and their wine club looks affordable. My Unilocal friend Michele R should be pleased with the accessibility.
Check them out and now you can say you knew them back when…