House of Brown California Red Blend 2022 (750ml)

 

House of Brown is 100% Black/family-owned and operated, and women-led.

 

Anytime-anywhere wines.  Always in season.  Certified Sustainable, vegan-friendly.

 

Palate-driven wines made from fruit sustainably grown in California.

 

House of Brown California Red Blend 2022

 

Appellation:  Lodi CA (Cosumnes River)

 

Composition:

• 50% Cabernet Sauvignon
• 25% Pinot Noir
• 25% Tempranillo
• Small amounts of naturally occurring & added sulfites — nothing else.

 

Alcohol:  13.2

 

Eye:  Brilliant translucent ruby through and through.

 

Nose:  Hibiscus, tea rose, pomegranate, and Maraschino cherry with subtle cinnamon, clove, and English lavender.

 

Palate:  Light body and crisp acidity meet lush fruit and spices.  Intense flavors make for a sublime lingering finish.

 

Pairing Inspirations

 

Avocado & beet salad, tomato tart, hoisin pork buns, trout & watercress fritters, chicken Caesar salad, French onion soup.

 

Production

 

• Fermented in stainless steel lined with oak staves, 11 months.
• Vegan friendly
• Certified Sustainable per “Lodi Rules”

 

 

House of Brown

 

Palate-driven wines made from fruit sustainably grown in California.

 

House of Brown is a sister label to Brown Estate, Napa Valley’s first Black-owned estate winery.  As our brand has attracted a terrifically diverse consumer base over the last 25+ years, a vibrant community and dynamic culture have coalesced in our ecosystem.

 

House of Brown, created to expand access to the Brown wine experience, is an homage to our Feel Seen ethos.

 

Anytime-anywhere wines.  Always in season.  Certified Sustainable, vegan-friendly.

 

House of Brown is 100% Black/family-owned and operated, and women-led.

 

Brown Estate

 

Napa Valley

 

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 local winemakers. 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 August 2021… when we bottled our 25th 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, both 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 resurgent First Street corridor in the heart of downtown Napa, and in 2018 we established our House of Brown sister label.

 

The scarab beetle we have adopted as part of our visual branding is an ancient Egyptian agricultural totem, a symbol of good luck and long life that in various iterations has graced our wine labels through the years. 

 

We find it an apt metaphor for Brown Estate, its overall form a relatively streamlined picture of calm whose intricate timeworn carvings tell tales that require a deeper level of engagement to tease out.  The business of operating an estate winery, making our wines from grapes we grow on our own land, relies heavily upon forces beyond our control.  Mother Nature is a brilliant but fickle business partner, and our increasingly burdened planet a delicate resource from which we derive our livelihood.  As we move through Brown Estate's third decade, these immutable realities continue to demand and inspire our passion, humility, and gratitude.