Brown Barn Films creates cinematic brand films, commercials and digital content for wineries and beverage brands throughout Sonoma County, Napa Valley and Northern California.
From vineyards and harvest to winemakers, hospitality and the bottle itself, we create video campaigns that communicate what makes your brand, people and place distinctive.
TRUSTED BY WINE & BEVERAGE BRANDS
PAUL HOBBS
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BRASSFIELD ESTATE
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LAKE COUNTY WINEGRAPE COMMISSION
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DOMAINE CHANDON
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CLOUDY BAY
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JACKSON FAMILY OF WINES
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PAUL HOBBS 〰️ BRASSFIELD ESTATE 〰️ LAKE COUNTY WINEGRAPE COMMISSION 〰️ DOMAINE CHANDON 〰️ CLOUDY BAY 〰️ JACKSON FAMILY OF WINES 〰️
Video Production for Wineries & Beverage Brands
Great winery content should do more than show beautiful vineyards.
It should give people a reason to remember your wine.
We work with wineries, wine regions and beverage brands to create video and photography built around specific marketing goals, whether that means introducing a brand, launching a campaign, supporting trade sales, promoting wine tourism or creating an ongoing library of content.
BRAND FILMS
Cinematic storytelling that communicates the people, place and philosophy behind your wine.
COMMERCIALS & CAMPAIGNS
Advertising content developed for digital, social, web and paid media.
SOCIAL CONTENT
Short-form and vertical videos designed to extend the value of a larger production.
TRADE & EDUCATIONAL VIDEO
Content for distributors, buyers, sales teams and consumers who want to understand what makes the wine distinctive.
PHOTOGRAPHY
Professional still photography captured alongside video when it makes sense for the campaign.
CONTENT LIBRARIES
Planned productions designed to create a larger collection of footage and photography for ongoing marketing.
Winery Videos Built Around Story, Not Just Scenery
Northern California has no shortage of beautiful vineyard footage.
What makes a winery memorable is usually something more specific: a vineyard site, farming philosophy, winemaker, family history, appellation, hospitality experience or particular point of view about wine.
We begin by identifying what is genuinely distinctive about the brand and build the creative around it.
The goal is content that feels specific to your winery rather than interchangeable with every other wine film.
Wine & Beverage Work
Brassfield Estate Winery
High Valley AVA, Lake County, California
Brown Barn Films created video content for Brassfield Estate Winery focused on the relationship between the estate, the High Valley AVA and its approach to Cabernet Sauvignon.
Production took us through the estate vineyards, winery, caves and hospitality spaces, connecting the finished wines to the place where they are grown and produced.
The campaign combined cinematic vineyard imagery with storytelling around estate farming, elevation, climate and winemaking, creating content designed for both consumer and trade audiences.
Brassfield Estate’s brand video celebrating their unique region and terroir that results in an amazing wine.
Paul Hobbs Winery
Sonoma County, California
Brown Barn Films partnered with Paul Hobbs Winery to create cinematic video content centered on the people, vineyards and winemaking behind one of Sonoma County's best-known wine brands.
Our approach focused on authentic moments and a strong sense of place, combining polished cinematography with documentary-style storytelling to create content that felt elevated without losing the character of the winery.
Paul Hobbs provides his tasting notes for the seasonal release of his Pinot Noir wine at the winery in Sebastopol.
Lake County Winegrape Commission
Lake County, California
We created this film for the Lake County Winegrape Commission to showcase what makes Lake County wine and winegrowing distinctive.
Through cinematic visuals and authentic storytelling, the film highlights the landscape, growing conditions and people behind the region's wines, helping audiences better understand what separates Lake County from other California wine regions.
We created this video for the Lake County Winegrape Commission to showcase what makes Lake County wines and winegrowing region unique. Through cinematic visuals and authentic storytelling, the film highlights the landscape, growing conditions and people behind the region’s distinctive wines.
One Production. Multiple Marketing Assets.
A strong production day can create much more than one finished video.
When appropriate, we plan the shoot around a broader content strategy so the same production can support multiple channels and campaigns.
A winery production might include:
Primary brand film
30-second campaign videos
15-second advertisements
Vertical social videos
Website footage
Interview clips
Product footage
Professional photography
Additional footage for future campaigns
Planning these assets together helps maximize the value of each production and creates a more consistent visual identity across your marketing.
Why Work With a Video Production Company That Understands Wine?
Producing video for wineries presents challenges that are different from filming in a conventional office or studio.
Our team has experience working throughout Northern California wine country and understands how to build productions around active vineyards, wineries and hospitality environments.
Vineyard & Agricultural Filming
The best vineyard imagery depends on season, weather, light and what is happening in the vineyard. We plan productions around the conditions needed to capture the property at its best.
Harvest & Production Environments
Harvest moves quickly. We work efficiently around active winery environments to capture authentic production without unnecessarily disrupting the people doing the work.
Winemaker & Founder Interviews
We help shape interviews so they feel natural and conversational while still communicating the ideas and messaging the finished campaign needs.
Hospitality & Lifestyle Production
For tourism and DTC campaigns, we can coordinate talent, food, tasting experiences and hospitality scenes that show what it feels like to experience the winery.
Drone & Landscape Cinematography
When appropriate for the location and project, aerial cinematography helps establish the geography, scale and character of an estate or appellation.
Our Winery Video Production Process
Discovery
We learn about your winery, audience, goals and what makes the brand distinctive.
Creative Development
We develop the concept, story structure, messaging and visual approach.
Pre-Production
We coordinate scheduling, locations, crew, talent, equipment and shot planning.
Production
Our team handles directing, cinematography, lighting and audio.
Post-Production
We handle editing, color, sound, music and final delivery across the formats your campaign requires.
From initial concept through final delivery, Brown Barn Films can manage the complete production process.
Winery Video Production Throughout Northern California
Brown Barn Films is based in Sonoma County and regularly works throughout Northern California wine country.
Our primary service areas include:
Sonoma County • Napa Valley • Healdsburg • Santa Rosa • Sonoma • St. Helena • Calistoga • Lake County • Mendocino County
We also travel throughout California and beyond for larger productions and campaigns.
Frequently Asked Questions
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Most projects take several weeks from initial planning through final delivery.
Simple productions can move faster, while larger campaigns may require additional time for creative development, scheduling, casting and revisions.
If you're working toward a specific launch, harvest, event or seasonal deadline, reaching out early gives us more flexibility.
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Yes.
For many winery campaigns, capturing photography and video together is an efficient way to create a broader collection of assets while maintaining a consistent visual style across your website, advertising and social media.
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Yes.
We often structure productions to support multiple deliverables, including primary campaign videos, short advertisements, vertical social content, interview clips and additional footage for future use.
Planning those assets before the shoot generally produces stronger results than trying to create them from leftover footage afterward.
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Yes.
Brown Barn Films is a full-service production company. We can help develop the concept, messaging, script, interview questions, shot structure and overall creative direction before filming begins.
Some clients come to us with a developed concept. For others, we lead the creative process from the beginning.
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Yes.
While we're based in Sonoma County, we regularly travel throughout Napa, Lake County, Mendocino County and other California wine regions.
We also travel outside Northern California when the project requires it.
Create Video Content That Feels Like Your Winery
Beautiful vineyards are only part of the story.
Brown Barn Films combines documentary-style storytelling with polished commercial production to create video content that captures what makes your winery, people and place worth remembering.
Whether you're developing a brand film, launching a campaign or building a larger library of content, we'd be glad to hear what you're working on.