Blue birds would sit in the trees outside the Westnut Hazelnut Factory in Dundee, Oregon and steal the nuts from the delivery trucks, drop them on the ground, and break the shells. The birds would then swoop down and grab the nuts for food, leaving the shell behind. These swashbuckling birds were named Blue Pirates. Westnut produced packaged hazelnuts and named the product “Blue Pirate Filberts”. Our Pinot Noir is produced at this renovated historical building, now called “12th and Maple Wine Company” and is also dedicated to the Blue Bird that once pirated the hazelnuts – the Blue Pirate

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