State-of-the-art custom winemaking company sources estate fruit to offer Washington State’s most sophisticated/largest grower sparkling wine production
PROSSER, Wash. (Feb. 6, 2023) – Four Feathers Wine Services, one of the West Coast’s leading bulk wine producers, today announced that it is expanding its suite of products and services to include custom sparkling wines made using the traditional méthode champenoise.
The company is sourcing fruit for its sparkling program exclusively from dedicated blocks in its estate vineyards located in Washington State’s Columbia Valley. This makes Four Feathers one of the few producers of grower sparkling wine in the Pacific Northwest.
“We’ve embraced a vision for grower sparkling wines from Washington State,” said Rebecca De Kleine, general manager and director of winemaking at Four Feathers Wine Services. “We believe that Washington offers ideal growing conditions to produce base wines for traditional method sparkling wines of distinction.”
De Kleine said the demand for sparkling wines from Four Feathers’ customers parallels the growth of sparkling products in the U.S. wine markets. Sparkling wine is one of the hottest industry categories, growing more than 13 percent in 2021. It’s expected to grow an additional 15 percent by 2026.
To support this new initiative, Four Feathers invested in one of the most sophisticated sparkling production lines in the United States, De Kleine said. The line includes state-of-the-art equipment from Bertolaso, Oeno Concept, Champagel, Perrier and Robino & Galandrino, among others.
The new line includes a top-of-the-line Bertolaso Aurora Biduler/ Crowner that ensures fast, consistent tirage for sparkling products and a custom-designed disgorging line. It also incorporates Oeno Concept Hextra riddling systems with Oeno Concept riddling bins for precise, uniform production that reduces the risk of inconsistency in the process.
“We’re incredibly proud of the new sparkling line,” De Kleine said. “It provides clients with unparalleled flexibility to customize their blends, disgorging dates and dosage programs, depending on the size of their projects.”
Four Feathers also offers sparkling wine in shiners as well as private label brand concepts, De Kleine said.
“This flexibility offers clients exciting opportunities to quickly launch sparkling wines under their own brands,” she said.
About Four Feathers Wine Services
Four Feathers Wine Services provides best-in-class custom winemaking, alcoholic beverage production and packaging services to support our clients in creating and building brands.
Four Feathers Wine Services is a vertically integrated, family-owned winemaking company that farms 3,500 acres of wine grapes and makes and packages custom premium wines for nearly 300 clients nationwide at its state-of-the-art facilities in Prosser, Washington.
The company manages the process of custom winemaking from vine to bottle depending on the needs of each client. In addition to turn-key winemaking, Four Feathers offers a full range of services including procurement, logistics, sales and compliance, all within its own state-of-the-art facilities.
Four Feathers is one of the first Washington State companies committed to sustainable winery and vineyard practices guided by Sustainable WA, Washington State’s first certified, industry-wide sustainability program.
To learn more about Four Feathers Wine Services, please visit www.fourfeathers.com.
