In May of 1991, Joel delivered 4,608 own-rooted, ungrafted vines to Brick House: 720 of clone #282 and 3,888 of clone #284. Price: $0.85 each.

She was at home everywhere on the farm, but there was one spot she seemed to like the most: right in front of the Brick House beside a block of young Gamay Noir vines.

Veraison awakens winegrowers with a gentle tug and Mother Nature’s reminder of the inevitable: “Harvest is coming!”

Here on the farm we’re enjoying our current release wines paired with some of our favorite foods! Check out the Brick House Staff’s current selections for delicious pairings.

When tiny white blossoms appear on a green grape cluster in formation, the vines are beginning to pollinate…

Just as we humans may be at our best after a good eight hours of sleep, so too the vines will begin a healthy, productive season once they have experienced  just right amount of cold weather.

Just as we humans may be at our best after a good eight hours of sleep, so too the vines will begin a healthy, productive season once they have experienced  just right amount of cold weather.

“…not only did this vintage yield enough wine to fill our barrel room but it also gave us some of the most promising young wines in our thirty-three-year history.”—Doug Tunnell

If you favor the bigger, bolder expressions of Pinot Noir then 2023 will be a vintage for you!

I don’t think it’s an accident of nature that Chardonnay blooms just about the time the salmon are running up the rivers of the Pacific Northwest.

In this spring of 2023, we’re late…but it’s a good thing.  Come fall, we might just pull White Rabbit out of the proverbial hat.

For a time it looked like we’d lost half our Chardonnay and some lesser amount of Pinot Noir to frost.  Called the crop insurance company…photographed the empty canes…prepared for the worst.