Budge Brown, successful self-made businessman and farmer, enjoyed 48 years of marriage with his wife Arlene.  When she lost her battle with breast cancer in 2005, he was devastated.  Devastation turned to anger.  Anger has lead to action.  Budge Brown is mad as hell at breast cancer, and he’s determined to do whatever he can to help find a cure for it.  He doesn’t want what happened in his life to happen to anyone else.  “My wife died for no damn good reason.   It’s time to do something about this,” stresses Brown.

Already a co-owner of Budge Brown Family Winery, Brown is turning to vino to wage his attack on breast cancer.  He’s putting his money, business acumen, and energy where his passion lies.  Read the entire story...

Budge Brown inspects Cleavage Creek grapes at the base of the Pope Valley hillside vineyard.