Winery Focus

Brick House
All of the Brick House wines are produced and bottled by hand on their 40 acre farm. They count on indigenous yeast fermentations. Rarely do they fine and never do they filter Brick House wines. When the vintage... or a part of it... merit special designation, they bottle the Cuvee du Tonnelier (or the Barrelmaker's Batch) as the finest expression of their estate's unique climate and terrain.

At Brick House, "organically grown" is more than just a phrase on the labels of their wines. They are committed to the old ways. From their first planting in May of 1990 until today, they have relied on basics. All of their fruit is estate grown. All of it is certified organic. Elemental sprays like sulfur combat disease. Fundamental farming controls weeds and shapes the hillsides beneath their vines.

The winery at Brick House is open to the public over the Thanksgiving Day weekend, and by appointment the rest of the year.

What's Available

	Brick House Pinot Noir Evelyn's Cuvee 2010 Price $65.00  $65 / bottle This is the vineyard that made organically grown grapes respectable, by using them to make phenomenal pinot noir. Now the winery is one of the premier producers in Oregon, and Doug Tunell is another one of the winemakers who I can trust to hit the ball out of the park with every vintage. This wine is a beautiful tranluscent ruby color, with an intoxicating aroma and juicy, bright and complex flavors interwoven with distinct minerality. Good stuff, and very limited. Read More...	Available 48 bottles Qty
	Brick House Pinot Noir Les Dijonnais 2010 Price $53.00  $53 / bottleAnother beauty from Doug Tunnel at Brick House! This bottling is a blend of Dijon clone material farmed organically at Doug's site on Ribbon Ridge high on the Chehalem Mountain. The vineyard was planted in 1995 and the first bottling of this wine was from the '98 vintage -- wherein it immediately become the most highly considered and sought-after of the Brick House wines. It sports sappy, intense red and dark red fruits with bright acidity and some very fine-grained tannin. There is a rambunctous quality to this wine that makes it fun to drink, but as always it comes down to the layers of fruit, and the lingering finish. All the desirable qualities of Oregon pinot noir appear in this bottling, which is remarkably forward now. However, there is some sneaky and serious concentration here that will emerge over time. Drinkable, but with a long future. When Tunnel planted his organic vineyard starting back in 1990, it was a curious thing. The very few wines made with organic grapes back then put too much emphasis on "organic" at the expense of quality, and the wines were bad. The release of the early Brick House wines proved that awesome wine could be made from organic grapes, and it was revelatory in that era. Then, in the mid 2000s, green and organic and safe-for-fish and biodynamic became all the rage. Every winery in America was racing for some green credibility. For a couple of years, that kind of marketing talk drowned out almost everything else. Now, the buzz has died down -- perhaps because EVERYONE does it that way now? In any case, the number of clients who have specifically asked for wine made with organic grapes over the past ten years can be counted on the fingers of one hand -- except for Brick House, which branded the idea better and earlier than most. Read More...	Available 48 bottles Qty
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