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# Ernest Vineyards Closing
- URL: https://bevnews.net/ernest-vineyards-closing/
- Published: 2026-02-04T05:36:16.000Z
- Updated: 2026-02-04T05:36:16.000Z
- Author: Joel Whitaker
- Tags: Wineries

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.