About Brooks Wines
Brooks Wines carries one of the most poignant stories in Oregon wine. Jimi Brooks founded the estate in 1998 with a particular passion for Riesling, a grape rarely taken seriously in American wine culture but which Jimi believed could produce wines of extraordinary complexity in Oregon's cool, marine-influenced Eola-Amity Hills. He died unexpectedly in 2004 at age 38, leaving behind his eight-year-old son Pascal.
In a remarkable act of community, the Brooks Wines team, led by winemaker Chris Williams, continued operating the winery as a co-op to provide for Pascal's future. Pascal Dion Brooks took over as proprietor on his 21st birthday in 2016, inheriting both the estate and its compelling human story. The wines have continued to evolve under his ownership and Williams's ongoing winemaking.
The Rieslings are the estate's signature achievement, dry, off-dry, and late-harvest versions that show an extraordinary range of character from the same volcanic and marine-sediment soils of the Eola-Amity Hills. The winery farms biodynamically and welcomes visitors daily with a relaxed, unpretentious atmosphere that feels genuinely local.
