Wine & Wineries

As guests arrive to Beaux Frères, it becomes immediately evident that this place is first and foremost a farm – a family of pigs run along the side of the driveway, a converted barn houses the thirty-year old winery, a firetruck used for water distribution sits amidst a swath of old Oregon oak trees, and a handful of winery dogs lay, rain or shine, on the crush pad to greet you. Much of the farm remains the same from when it was founded by Michael Etzel and his brother-in-law, Robert Parker, in 1988, with their first vintage released in 1992. Beaux Frères approach to farming the 26-acre vineyard and 9-acre Upper Terrace vineyard is guided by holistic, sustainable principles and they aim to make wines that are based on minimal intervention and a shared intuition with the land.