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Food. Joy. Disco. The 3 Ps of Pinot!

Food. Joy. Disco. The 3 Ps of Pinot!

Dear Friends, It has been another fabulous week at Brooks! Everything ran smoothly as we brought 90 tons in the door this week. That is approximately 5,800 cases worth of wine. Winemaker Chris has set the mood in the white fermentation room with a disco ball and Abba. He pressed the first Pinot Noir for…

June 2025 in the Brooks Garden

“The shape of time and space is different in wilderness. Time is something encountered through the sense not imposed upon the mind. We walk, we sit, we eat, we sleep, we look, we smell, we touch, we hear, we taste our own feral nature. What we know in a wild place is largely translated through…

Brooks Wine Named Green Company of the Year 2023!

In a remarkable triumph for sustainable practices and environmental responsibility, Brooks Wine has been honored with the prestigious title of Green Company of the Year 2023 by The Drinks Business.

A Century Farm

A Century Farm

Dear Friends, It was a fun but busy week. I had many meetings with the team. I ate my way through the February menu. Chef Norma and our Director of Marketing, Jillian, crafted a new Valentine’s drink for you. I met with our next two Beyond Brooks partners and spent special time with Dick Crannell,…

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A Life Lesson Turned Tradition

Dear Friends, I hope this finds you safe, healthy and hopeful! For the past 15 years, this Sunday, the Sunday of the International Pinot Noir Celebration, would find me and hundreds of others exhausted after the 3 day celebration. Exhausted, in a good way. It is a true celebration of the love of Pinot Noir,…

The Sum is Greater Than Its Parts

Dear Friends, I hope this finds you safe and healthy. Some of you may be in states where reopening has begun. I hope this is going well. Happy Mother’s Day I am very blessed to be a mother of two wonderful children, Emily, 22 and Ryan,18. And I am not being boastful by saying “blessed”.…

July 2025 in the Brooks Garden

“We live in such a time now, when our collective actions over the next several years will decide whether earthly life will continue its descent into ecological ruin and death or flourish in beauty and diversity.” -Lyanda Lynn Haupt, Crow Planet: Essential Wisdom from the Urban Wilderness It’s not often that I walk the garden…

Three men standing in front of green hills

The Day Jimi Passed Away

Confusion, emotion, disbelief, and panic set in.  I was in California.  I needed to get to Oregon. The next hours, days and weeks that went by were blurry to say the least.

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Friends, Wine and Laughter

Dear Friends, I sure hope this finds you healthy and well! I took a big leap this week and made the 10 hour drive to the Oregon. It is hot up here and has been a busy few days already. I wanted to share some photos with you. The ones above was my sunrise this…

Picking Under the Stars and the Noir Not Pinot

Picking Under the Stars and the Noir Not Pinot

Dear Friends, This was the biggest week to date for harvest in terms of how much fruit we received. All reports from the team are the fruit is pristine, flavors are concentrated, chemistry is in check and it is one of the smoothest harvests they can remember. This is all very exciting and there are…