When I first arrived in the Napa Valley, the location where 25 Brix is now was a store that only sold Christmas supplies year round, which was a little disconcerting on a 100° day in July.  It then went through several incarnations of restaurants before becoming Brix and finally 25 Brix.  All this to say that our vineyard is behind the restaurant!  How does this affect the vineyard you might ask?  On the positive side there are the beautiful gardens behind the restaurant that are always full of flowers and vegetables at most times of the year.  It is also possible to have lunch after visiting the vineyard. Often times, patrons of the restaurant drink a little too much and go off into the seclusion of the vines for romantic trysts only to be discovered by a curious vigneron.  The old diesel locomotive of the wine train winds its way slowly through the vineyard thus creating an almost carnival-like atmosphere during the growing season.

Brix is located at an ideal bend in the Napa Valley that allows you to see north to Mount St. Helena and south until the Mayacamas range to the west falls onto the flats of Carneros and into the San Francisco Bay.  It is an ideal spot on a clear day.

This is an old-vine vineyard farmed organically by Pete Richmond of Silverado Farming.  The wines from this site are dense in structure, intensely colored and can be unforgivingly tannic.  Our wine is named in honor of the great Chilean poet, Pablo Neruda, who loved and was inspired by wines.  His descriptions of wine make them come alive and make us feel like we are there with him with a glass in our hand.