How It Was Built & April Musings
The Brooks tasting room turns eight, and we’ve got the perfect wines for Easter.
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The Importance of Perspective
Dear Friends, I hope this finds you all healthy and safe. We were able to reopen outdoors this week. Oregon has come up with a formula-driven classification system applied to each county that determines how businesses can operate. At this time, most counties, including ours, is in the “extreme” risk category. The primary measure to…
Party Crashers!
Dear Friends: Time seems to be going faster and faster as we are all starting to reopen. Please error on the side of caution. The safer we are, the more successful we will all be. Brooks will be opening up by reservation only on June 1. A separate email will go out to share the…
Harvest Update – 2020
Dear Friends, Fall is in the air for sure! I hope this finds everyone safe and healthy. As we are wrapping up harvest 2020, I wanted to share with you decisions we have made this year as well as October’s Perfect Pairing and some great news about a few of the Rieslings at Brooks. All…
July in the Brooks Estate Garden
“But to be fearful of the disease and yet unwilling to pay for the cure, is not just to be hypocritical, it is to be doomed. If you talk a good line without being hanged by what you say, then you are not just hypocritical and doomed, you have become an agent of the disease.”…
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From the Kitchen
From the Kitchen Fromage Board | Three cheeses & accompaniments $18Charcuterie Board | Three meats & accompaniments $18Paco Board | Cheeses, charcuterie & accompaniments $22Gluten-free crackers available on request The Perfect Pairing (G.F., D.F.) $32Seared tuna – Butter lettuce – Boiled farm egg – Green beans Cherry tomato – Radish – Stinging nettle vinaigretteComes with…
Monthly Wine Tasting and Food Pairings
Let us share with you the best tasting room experience Willamette Valley has to offer. With new featured flights and pairings each month, we make is easy for you to come back, settle in, and enjoy a day among the vines.
Brooks Recipes
Recipes from the Brooks Kitchen Each month, let the Brooks Kitchen take you step-by-step through our most popular dishes and our favorite pairings. This Month’s Featured Recipe Flank steak tacos with avocado crema & chimichurri Watch us prepare the Perfect Pairing for March: flank steak tacos paired with 2018 Brooks Crannell Pinot Noir (recipe below).…
About Us
Brooks is the living legacy of Jimi Brooks, a visionary Portland native who came to wine through his passion for history and philosophy.
The Vineyards
Our Vineyards In addition to our Estate Vineyard, we source fruit (industry-talk for “grapes”) from many different vineyard sites throughout the Willamette Valley and Oregon. This allows us to craft distinctive wines from many different micro-climates and show the true expression of terroir, particularly when it comes to Pinot Noir and Riesling. Pinot Noir Vineyards BOIS…
What it means to be a Biodynamic Vineyard
What does it mean to be a Biodynamic® vineyard? Simply put, it means we focus on the land’s natural resources and eliminate the use of chemicals, herbicides, pesticides, synthetic fertilizers, or fungicides. A behind the scenes look… At Brooks, we constantly work to create a self-sustaining vineyard with a self-sustaining habitat that can protect the…
Jimi’s Legacy Series
For our 20th anniversary, we celebrate those winemakers with a number of special events and monthly programming. Welcome to The Legacy Series.