We are excited to invite you to The Kitchen for a fun and informative demonstration cooking class featuring Oregon wines paired with seasonal food! Learn how we pair Hundred Suns Wine wines with the freshest ingredients available.
Grant Coulter & Renée Saint-Amour
When we met over 19 years ago, we agreed on a fundamental idea: we wanted to build a life together that felt like an adventure. We left California for Oregon’s Willamette Valley, where Grant first worked as assistant winemaker at Hamacher wines and then spent the bulk of 10 years as assistant winemaker and then winemaker at Beaux Freres. Those ten years were rich. Renée continued teaching high school while Grant gained intimate understanding and appreciation of the soils, climates, and personalities (both land and people) of the valley. We started a family. We made good friends, drank beautiful wines, and dreamed of a life that would bring us more together than apart.
In 2015, we sold our house in Portland, scraped together every penny we had, and moved to a fixer-upper in the the valley so that we could build Hundred Suns. Eventually, Grant moved on from being winemaker at Beaux Freres to overseeing the vineyards and making the wines for Flaneur Wines, and Renée swapped the classroom for the cellar and running of the day-to-day business. From winemaking, to label design, website building, and even wax dipping bottles by hand, every aspect of this process has our fingerprints on it because it is just the two of us.
In 2018 we bought a 4.5 acre property in the Eola-Amity hills where the 50 year-old vineyard was our children’s backyard. In 2020, disease forced us to remove those old vines, and now we look forward to replanting in spring of 2022. Farming this site will bring us even closer to the wines that we have the pleasure of making and managing together. So far it has been a beautiful adventure indeed, and we’re just getting started.
More About Hundred Suns Wine
HUNDRED SUNS: a reference to the approximately 100 days of the growing season between flowering & harvest.
Our MISSION
Source fruit from growers we like, trust, and respect. Choose growers who share with us a history in the valley, an ideology aimed at quality in the vineyard, and a desire to farm with an eye on the environment.
Push boundaries and take risks. Experiment with and understand each vineyard and how our practices in the cellar can accentuate the site and the vintage.
Trust the process and ourselves. Explore new techniques of fermentation and aging because we know our experience will guide us. Manipulate the wines as little as possible, and let the vineyards and vintages speak for themselves. As such, our wines are fermented with indigenous yeast, native malolactic bacteria, and without the use of unnatural additives.
Make wines we want to drink. Create delicious wines that can be enjoyed now or for years to come.
Dinner Details
Menu
We’ll be creating a seasonal menu paired with these beautiful wines.
Please check back for details!
Seating Options & Registration Information
Available Options
Three options are available:
Family-style seating at the Chef’s Table, limited to 20 people
Four bistro tables, accommodating two guests each
Wine barn, for up to 10 guests
Per Person Pricing
A per-person cost of $165, which includes dinner, pairings, and gratuity.
For Large Groups
If you have a party larger than 10, call The Kitchen at 503-746-3030 to allow us to assist you with your reservation.
Additional Considerations
Please let us know if you or any of your guests are vegan, vegetarian or have a gluten intolerance.
Single Seat at the Chef’s Table
This is a single seat ticket at our Chef’s Table and includes dinner, pairings, and service for one guest.
Price: $175
Table for Two
This is a ticket for two (2) guests at a bistro table, and includes dinner, pairings and service for each guest.
Price: $350
GROUP: Wine Barn Reservation
Reserve the Wine Barn for this event, and we will contact you to coordinate details. The Wine Barn accommodates 4-10 guests.
NOTE: The final invoice will be issued the night of the event based on the number of guests minus the deposit.
Price: $50 Deposit
