Ernest Vineyards Closing
For 14 years, Ernest Vineyards focused on single vineyard wines from the West Sonoma Coast. Now it's closing. “Like many small producers, it’s a very challenging time with costs escalating and sales declining,” owner Erin Brooks told the San Francisco Chronicle. “It’s really quite that simple.
For 14 years, Ernest Vineyards focused on single vineyard wines from the West Sonoma Coast. Now it's closing.
“Like many small producers, it’s a very challenging time with costs escalating and sales declining,” owner Erin Brooks told the San Francisco Chronicle. “It’s really quite that simple.”
Brooks has been gradually winding down, selling its ownership in a Windsor winery, two estate vineyards, and she just closed its Healdsburg tasting room.
Brooks is a victim of the decline of the wine business. In 2022, she purchased two vineyards, and in 2023 and 2024 more than doubled production to 9,000 cases. Then the entire $55 billion California wine industry began a historic decline.