Kate Payne Brown
Person
Winemaker who left Stoller Family Estate in 2023 to become a partner and winemaker at Vinovate; she also makes the wines for Ambar.
Ownership
- Call Me Dolores (founded)
Work
- Vinovate Custom Wine Services (partner and winemaker, from 2023)
- Stoller Family Estate (worked at, until 2023)
- Ambar (winemaker at)
- Argyle Winery (head winemaker, 2025–present)
- Call Me Dolores (winemaker at)
Affiliation
- Method Oregon (founding group)
Sources
- Weinnotes newsletter, 24 June 2023
- Weinnotes newsletter, 7 October 2023
- Weinnotes newsletter, 2 March 2024
- Weinnotes podcast: Kate Payne Brown (YouTube)
- Weinnotes newsletter, 8 March 2025
- Weinnotes newsletter, 5 April 2025
- Kate Payne Brown Named Head Winemaker for Oregon's Argyle Winery (Wine Business)
- Oral history interview with Kate Payne Brown, 2020 (Oregon Wine History Archive)