Come out to meet Emily & Jody, co-winemakers of J. Brix in San Diego, at our Costa Mesa Tasting Room! They will be pouring their newest wines and chatting about wine making from 5-7pm on Friday, June 16th. Mark your calendars, because you won’t want to miss this event! There is no entry fee, all wines will be served by the glass. There will also be bottles to go at a discounted price for the event.
About J. Brix
From the site to the soil to the growing season, our wines, if we're doing our work correctly, will speak in their own voices. We adore the variety California has to offer, which means we find ourselves compelled to make tiny quantities of as many different wines as we can... and, we try to add a new grape or style each harvest. Our fruit comes from a number of vastly different, soul-stirring vineyards all over the state. We use neutral vessels, native-yeast fermentation, and absolutely nothing else, with the exception of sulfur dioxide as necessary. In keeping with this minimalist approach, we choose not to fine, filter or cold-stabilize our wines. Our motto, in winemaking and life: ONLY LOVE.
Jody Brix Towe
Co-Winemaker/Barrel-Lifter
After tasting a bottle of Pinot Noir grown and made in the Santa Maria Valley, San Diegans Jody and wife Emily got their winemaking start as volunteer harvest interns there, and found they simply couldn't get enough of the dirty work. One dream led to another; J. Brix Wines is the unexpectedly felicitous result.
Jody's college and career background in horticulture translates to time and study in the vineyards; there's nowhere he'd rather be. A keen understanding of plant physiology provides insight into the way each individual growing season affects the vines, the fruit, and the wine. A keen intuition built on many years working with plants helps guide winemaking decisions, which vary from harvest to harvest based on the sum of the season.
He drives a lot.
Emily Towe
Co-Winemaker/Content + Design
Emily is fascinated by stories. Along the way, she's found herself caught up in one of her own. Every winemaking year provides a new and unscripted tale to tell, and as a writer and designer, she finds great joy in the translation: written, graphic and vinous.
She and Jody have come to view their lives in two phases: the one before they spoke those three little words ("Let's make wine"), and the one that has followed. Subsequent adventures have been more thrilling, and fulfilling, than anything she ever could have imagined.
Electric mayhem? Absolutely. Heartbreak? Occasionally.
In the fleeting moments, though, it's all nothing short of magical.