BROWN ESTATE (Winery)

Brown Estate is a family owned and operated private estate winery. In 1980, mama and daddy Brown purchased and rehabilitated the Brown Estate land. In 1996, the Brown family (mama and daddy Brown and the 3 Brown siblings) began making wine under the Brown Estate label.

In 1980 our parents purchased an abandoned ranch in the eastern hills of the Napa Valley. They rehabilitated the crumbling homestead and planted viniferous grapes — which for a decade we farmed and sold to to local winemakers. In 1995 we kids decided to make our own wine…

In 1995 In 1995 we kids decided to make our own wine…

We established the Brown Estate label officially in 1996 when we harvested what would become our first bottling of Brown Zin. In January 2000 we debuted our first three vintages at the annual ZAP (Zinfandel Advocates & Producers) Grand Tasting in San Francisco. Fast forward to September 2016… when we bottled our 20th vintage.

In the meantime our business has grown slowly but surely as our brand has gained increasingly broad exposure to an extraordinarily diverse audience thanks to word of mouth IRL and on social media. To make our wines and hospitality experience more accessible, in April 2017 we opened our Brown Downtown tasting room on the re-emerging First Street corridor in the heart of downtown Napa (currently shuttered due to pandemic).

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