Founders Dan Kosta and Michael Browne started out with humble beginnings while working together in a local restaurant in 1997. Full of passion, Michael developed relationships with key growers in Northern California, while Dan along with the help of a third partner, Chris Costello, worked to market and sell the wines.

In 2011, Kosta Browne were named Wine Spectator’s #1 Wine of the Year for their 2009 Sonoma Coast Pinot Noir. It was an honour that fuelled the winery’s commitment to embrace innovation, and to push boundaries. Kosta Browne use unconventional approaches in the cellar to make irresistible, powerful and balanced Pinot Noir and Chardonnay wines of elegant intensity with aromatic notes.

These varieties reflect their growing conditions and winemaking approaches like no other and obsessed with capturing the individual expression of the state’s finest growing regions—the rugged and diverse Sonoma Coast, the foggy Russian River Valley, the chilly Santa Lucia Highlands, the coastal proximity of the Sta. Rita Hills and the wild, untamed Anderson Valley.

From vineyard to cellar, Kosta Browne are dedicated to crafting and sharing wines with a sense of place.