Briar Rose Winery Estate Wines is a Taste of Home

Briar Rose Winery must meet specific criteria to call our award winning wine “estate”. The Temecula Valley’s premiere boutique winery painstakingly creates estate wine 100% on  property from start to finish to personally maintain the highest quality at each step of the process.

We proudly serve our estate wines at our Briar Rose Winery in the Temecula Wine Country.  Did you know that in order to call our award winning wines “estate” our wine has to meet several conditions set by the US federal government’s Alcohol, Tobacco, Tax and Trade Bureau?

The wine must be made completely from grapes either grown on land, owned by the winery, or controlled by the winery in the same viticultural area. The Temecula Valley is considered one of the fastest growing viticultural areas in the country.  If we have bad weather and have to purchase grapes from another vineyard and the wine cannot be considered “estate”.

The wine may not leave the premises at any time during its production.  It’s for this reason that we crush and ferment the grapes, bottle and age the wine right here at Briar Rose Winery, Temecula Valley’s premiere boutique winery under the watchful eye of our winemaker/owner Les Linkogle. We personally ensure the quality of the wine at each step in the process to create the best wines for our customers.  We are proud to put the word “estate” on many of our award-winning wines and consider it a taste of home.
We have an Estate Riesling with hints of orange blossom, peaches and apricots and an Estate Viognier  that boasts of exotic fruits, white peach and a luscious florals.  

To appeal to variety of estate wines among our standard wine options as well as featured estate wines in our ultra-premium selections , make a reservation to try some of our delicious wines today and purchase a bottle or two of our delicious estate wines to take a taste of home where ever you may go!

Briar Rose’s Talking Frog is a Prince!

Talking Frog

Our winery owners, Les and Dorian Linkogle remind us that "Sometimes you really do have to kiss a lot of frogs 'til you find your prince".  This may be true in many areas of life but when it comes to delicious wines you will find a prince every time you visit our premier Temecula boutique winery which opened its enchanting doors in 2007.

This saying became the inspiration for our "Talking Frog" label.  This label offers a budget-friendly introduction to our table wines to appeal to a price conscious consumer. Talking Frog is our unique bubbly wine lager that is light, sweet and fruity.  As this label is less expensive than Briar Rose’s other wines, taste is not spared in any way. We are proud of our awards for Talking Frog Wine Lager that includes; a bronze in the Valley Wine Society 2010 and the Inland Empire Award in 2010.

This recently released wine has the distinction of using 100% Viognier grapes and a lager Hefeweizen.   Pronounced Vee-own-yay, the Viognier grapes were once only found in the northern Rhone region of France but were brought to California in the 1990’s where they adapted well to the climate.  The Viognier grapes can now be found in many places around the world. This wine lager is unique and offers a true appreciation of the Viognier grape.