Taste of Tassie in Milawa

Kayena Vineyard, Tasmania

This June long weekend Brown Brothers invites you to join them for a Feast Fit for a King to celebrate our new vineyards in Tasmania. With King Neptune in mind, you can indulge in a five-course degustation of Tasmanian seafood, matched to our stunning new wines. The feast will take place on Saturday 8th June [...]

A wine and chocolate adventure

Wine and Chocolate master class

By Emma Porter, Epicurean Club Manager At Brown Brothers we have long been advocates of enjoying a spot of chocolate and wine and since discovering Sisko Chocolates our boundaries have seen no end! Sisko’s Chocolatier Christina Tantsis founded Sisko Chocolates in late 2007. Specialising in creating custom-designed sculptures, centrepieces and flavours by combining both the [...]

Heathcote delivers the full Monte

Brown Brothers Heathcote vineyard

By Andrew Harris, Brown Brothers Wine Ambassador Experimentation has been the backbone of the Brown Brothers philosophy since day one and our small-scale Kindergarten winery allows us to try out a range of different varietals and offer Cellar Door visitors something really special. In 1989, the year Brown Brothers celebrated its centenary of winemaking, John [...]

New menu captures delight of Autumn

Lamb main

By Caroline Brown, PR Manager, Brown Brothers I’m now sitting, well kind of slumped, on a chair in Milawa, after just devouring half of the new menu at Patricia’s Table at the Epicurean Centre. Tough job. As always, I was absolutely blown away by Head Chef Doug Elder’s new Autumn menu but I must warn [...]

Vintage adventure is almost over

Ross Brown

I apologise for my long pause between posts, I’ve had a serious case of writer’s block. Well, it’s been over a month and I’ve had an incredible vintage adventure, and very proud to be part of the very successful 2013 harvest, but I’m also a tad upset. It’s going too quickly because the weather has [...]

Join us to celebrate 10 years of Patricia

Patriciadish

Brown Brothers and Gourmet Traveller Wine magazine invite you to an evening celebrating 10 years of Patricia wines. Enjoy a five-course dinner matched to the latest Patrica wines as well as some that have been cellared by the Brown Family. These will be benchmarked against fine wines from Australia and abroad. The dinners in Sydney, [...]

Family Cellar gets a makeover

Eliza, Emma and Caroline Brown in the Family Cellar

Katherine Brown: About a year ago I took a group of people to our family cellar and to my delight they were amazed by this cobwebbed hole in the ground. With this in mind I set to the task of give the cellar some love, a coat of paint and some new fixtures to make [...]

Meet Ernie and Cobi

Cobi and Ernie

With more than 50 years of service between them, we talk to two of Brown Brothers’ most cherished employees – Cobi Howden, Customer Services Experience Officer, and Cellar Door’s Ernie Menichelli. When did you start at Brown Brothers? Cobi: I began my journey with Brown Brothers at the tender age of 19. To tell you [...]

Chefs create tribute to Patricia

Patricia Brown's recipe book

By Douglas Elder, Head Chef, Epicurean Centre Last weekend we held the annual Patricia lunch at our Milawa site.  As both a celebration of family matriarch Patricia Brown, and as a platform for the launch of the latest releases of the company’s flagship wines named in her honour, the lunch is also a chance for [...]

Patricia Celebrates a Decade of Fine Wine

John Brown, James Halliday, Katherine Brown and Ross Brown.

The Brown Family is excited to launch the 10th release of their Patricia range of wines this March. The Patricia name is a dedication to their matriarch, Patricia Brown, for the love and commitment she gave to her family for more than 60 years. Her contribution has been fundamental in helping to make Brown Brothers [...]