In 2001 Derek Whiteside and Joel Rea, two long time friends and home fermentation enthusiasts decided to ramp up their skills and make a barrel of wine. Foolish idea, but it was fun. So they did it again in 2002 & 2003.
Their pal Barry Glassman called their wine Two Fools knowing what fools they were for the good juice. In 2004 they took Barry into the group and ramped up production to 2 barrels, thus born - One Pal and his Two Fools (for the first year no-one really knew who the pal was and who the fools were).
In 2005 production took another leap to three barrels and it was starting to get expensive. So in 2006 the Three Fools cut back to one barrel. Thinking they had it under control, a little surprise showed up.
Barry secretly entered two of their wines into the well known Oregon Wine & Seafood Festival Amateur Competition. Out of 150 entries, The Three Fools 2004 Cabernet won Best of Show and the 2005 Pinot Noir won Gold.
That was the tipping point. Things just got out of control from there and in 2007 they did a very foolish thing. They started a winery, and Three Fools was officially born.
