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Brooks Wine Cellars
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Home made from California Grapes, these is an amateur home winemaking set of wines. It is a complete homemade process from grapes to my own bottling. Most of my recent vintages come from Brutocao Vineyards, which makes wine with its own label. These grapes are excellent.
These are made in my basement here by Larry Brooks outside Baltimore in Phoenix, Maryland, USA.
A quote from a skeptical acquaintance I was with after a group golf tournament: "I wouldn't have thought you could make wine this good at home".
The wines have also been tasted blind with my wine tasting group, and before they figured out that it was home made, I got high reviews. And this wine tasting group tastes great wines.
The Syrah was tasted on Grange night and everyone thought it was not out of place.
I am friends with a whole group of home winemakers, and have been successful thanks to the shared education that has helped us all.
The grapes have been mostly purchased from Harford Vineyard, who is a distributor of grapes and winemaking equipment, and also provides a winemaking facility. Other grapes have purchased from S&S in Baltimore, MD.
These are made in my basement here by Larry Brooks outside Baltimore in Phoenix, Maryland, USA.
A quote from a skeptical acquaintance I was with after a group golf tournament: "I wouldn't have thought you could make wine this good at home".
The wines have also been tasted blind with my wine tasting group, and before they figured out that it was home made, I got high reviews. And this wine tasting group tastes great wines.
The Syrah was tasted on Grange night and everyone thought it was not out of place.
I am friends with a whole group of home winemakers, and have been successful thanks to the shared education that has helped us all.
The grapes have been mostly purchased from Harford Vineyard, who is a distributor of grapes and winemaking equipment, and also provides a winemaking facility. Other grapes have purchased from S&S in Baltimore, MD.