The Understory is a subscription-based community that supports our endeavors at Hiyu. It provides you with monthly wine releases, discounts, and priority admission to Wine Tavern experiences – as well as access to our cellar and other ephemeral, artistic expressions of life on the farm.
As a subscriber to the Understory, you receive a monthly allotment of our wildly different vintages, made from fields of diverse and exotic varieties, grown in the Columbia Gorge’s infinite geographies. You also support our experiments, from forest gardens to animal-tended vines to soil and aquifer restoration. You’re enabling all of the progress and energy these efforts manifest to exist and extend into the world.
July Releases
Hiyu 2019 Aura, Columbia Gorge White Wine
Hiyu 2018 Arco Iris, Columbia Gorge Red Wine
Hiyu 2019 Aura, Columbia Gorge White Wine
Hiyu 2019 Aura, Columbia Gorge White Wine
Hiyu 2018 Arco Iris, Columbia Gorge Red Wine
Hiyu 2018 Arco Iris, Columbia Gorge Red Wine
Hiyu 2019 Aura, Columbia Gorge White Wine
Between the Vines
In the late summer at Hiyu, thunderheads billow and ripening begins. The feeling is at once hopeful and ominous; everything is still possible at this point. As we prepare for our annual harvest, we revisit our complex farm system, which includes American guinea hogs, chickens, cows, various plants, and hundreds of grape varieties that ripen together in symbiotic ways. The colors and flavors of these diverse grapes ultimately reveal themselves in the wines, offering unique interpretations of the site comprising climate and culture, soil, bacteria, minerals, weather patterns, and more.
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Frequently Asked Questions
When you join the Understory, you commit to a minimum one-year subscription. This allows you to experience a holistic selection of our wines and your subscription benefits. If you cancel your subscription prior to one year, you will be responsible for reimbursing Hiyu for any Understory discounts received.
We offer Understory subscription pick-up for locals in and around the Columbia Gorge. Additionally, we are compliant and can ship to the following states: CA, IL, OR, MN, WA, CO, TX, FL, NY, DC, CT, NC, SC, MA, and NH. We do not currently offer international Understory subscriptions.
Subscriptions and bottle purchases may be picked up at the Wine Tavern during regular tavern hours: Thursday to Sunday 12:00 – 5:00 p.m. Please note that you must arrange all pick-ups a minimum of 24 hours in advance by emailing orders@hiyuwinefarm.com.
Our wines are sensitive to heat and cold, so we only ship when the temperature is under 70 degrees and over 40 degrees at the shipping origin and destination. For this reason, we plan two annual Understory shipments: one in March/April, prior to the hot summer months, and one in October/November, before freezing temperatures prevail. If you have ordered additional bottles, they will be consolidated into these shipments. Please email us at orders@hiyuwinefarm.com if you have any questions about the precise date your subscription will ship.
You can choose whether you would like your Understory subscription to process monthly or annually. This payment plan supports all of our endeavors at Hiyu, where animals, fields, and vine sites must be tended to from dusk to dawn, every day.
Tales & Meditations
Stories about life at Hiyu, ideas that inspire us, and deliberations that result from our experiments and observations.
