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Idiot's Grace Wines Organic grapes, wild ferments, original American wine in Mosier, Oregon. Estd 2002
541-399-5259
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Organically Grown Estate Wines from the Columbia Gorge AVA

We are on day 29 of the grape harvest, with maybe 13 more to go. Still picking plums, c***r apples, and the last plums a...
09/30/2026

We are on day 29 of the grape harvest, with maybe 13 more to go. Still picking plums, c***r apples, and the last plums around the edges. A very nice time to be alive in Mosier. Fruit, fruit, fruit, all over the place.

Happy Fructidor to all who celebrate. This moment of the year is marked by the the arrival of pears, the harvest of stil...
08/20/2026

Happy Fructidor to all who celebrate. This moment of the year is marked by the the arrival of pears, the harvest of still more plums, the beginning of fermentations, too-frequent power outages, shared meals, drifting smoke, and what seems like supreme pleasure among the resident swallows.

The fruits of July. Those glowing plums are Early Laxtons, which we tried drying, for the first time— they were lovely, ...
07/14/2026

The fruits of July. Those glowing plums are Early Laxtons, which we tried drying, for the first time— they were lovely, like glass when they went in, but they just about disappeared in the process. You learn one year, one variety at a time…

Vineyard blues & greens
07/01/2026

Vineyard blues & greens

Cherry harvest is over— but some good news: we’ll be staying open a little longer on summer Fridays, til 6:00 PM. This i...
06/22/2026

Cherry harvest is over— but some good news: we’ll be staying open a little longer on summer Fridays, til 6:00 PM. This is the season of perfect evenings in Mosier, especially in the w**ery garden, sheltered between oak trees and pear orchard.

The tasting room is the most civilized corner of the farm, but it’s still on a farm. Our produce fridge will be stocked ...
06/18/2026

The tasting room is the most civilized corner of the farm, but it’s still on a farm. Our produce fridge will be stocked all summer with the organic fruit and vegetables grown here on site by Idiot’s Grace and Stepping Stone Farm. Open whenever the tasting room is, restocked the farmers have a moment, but count on a fresh wave every Thursday morning.

Access to farms is essential for a region’s culture. It was with this thought in mind that we first put up a sign for u-...
06/09/2026

Access to farms is essential for a region’s culture. It was with this thought in mind that we first put up a sign for u-pick cherries fifteen years ago, on the edge of our orchard of hundred year old cherry trees and Old Highway 30. In those days we still conducted a large-scale commercial harvest, with all the fanfare and zaniness, the pre-dawn mornings, the white-knuckled drives of the old cherry truck to catch the packing house before closing. U-pick was a response to our exhaustion watching the fruit disappear every year into an anonymous supply chain (where it was sold as conventional, not organic!). It was a way to share organic fruit with the people who live here. Many of you have come to pick nearly every year since our first.

So it is with regret that we say that we will not be offering pick-your-own cherries this year, or for the foreseeable future. The reason is prosaic: we have not been able to find an insurer willing to cover this farm if we continue our u-pick operations on these grand trees, where the fruit is so high up, and ladders a necessity. And we are not of a mind to pull the behemoths before their time in order to honor insurance companies.

But it is still the aim of this farm to make high quality, fresh, organic fruit accessible to our community. The recent rain has caused extensive splitting, and further complicated our plans for the season, but we intend to have a bin of fresh-picked, unsorted, certified organic Idiot’s Grace cherries outside of the tasting room on Saturday, June 13th, starting at 11:00 AM. Field-run fruit, $4/lb— & the pounds at I.G. are generous. Bring a picnic if you like. Sorted fruit will be available in the tasting room produce fridge until the harvest is over.

If you’re in Portland, catch us at the wonderful operating in a very similar way one day later, on Sunday, June 14th.

Bizarre light, glowing fruit in the minutes before last week’s storm hit; Brian checking the cherries in the canopy the ...
06/01/2026

Bizarre light, glowing fruit in the minutes before last week’s storm hit; Brian checking the cherries in the canopy the following morning. Sometimes a storm sends the world upside down— dogs start climbing trees.
More on this strange, early cherry season shortly!

Gather ye rosepetals while ye may, in May
05/28/2026

Gather ye rosepetals while ye may, in May

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05/18/2026

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8450 Highway 30
Mosier, OR
97040

Opening Hours

Monday 11am - 4pm
Thursday 11am - 4pm
Friday 11am - 4pm
Saturday 11am - 5pm
Sunday 11am - 5pm

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