Bree & Chad
Bree Stock, MW
Bree Stock has been a Master of Wine since 2016, holding one of the highest qualifications in the wine industry. She is Oregon’s first MW and the only female MW in the Pacific Northwest. Australian-born, her wine career began in the Canadian on-trade with Sommelier buying roles on both coasts. On return to Australia she developed broad industry experience in management and sales director roles in on-trade, distribution and importing specializing in wines of the Iberian Peninsula, US and Australia.
An avid explorer and learner, Bree is a certified WSET educator (2008) and became a Master of Wine in 2016. She continues to lecture across all levels of the WSET certification and is the WSET nominated educator at Linfield College Evenstad Center for Wine Education. An international consultant developing and presenting wine certification programs for trade organizations (Oregon Wine Board, Willamette Valley Wineries Association, NW Wine Coalition, Washington State Wine and Tempranillo Alliance) and consumers, she is a frequent presenter at trade conferences such as TEXSOM, SommCon and Cornucopia and an educator with the Online Wine Academy in Napa Valley.
She sits on the board of Assemblage Women in Wine, Masters of Wine North America and Demeter Biodynamic - organizations that align with her philosophies. She serves as a regular wine judge for international competitions for Decanter, TEXSOM, TIWA and IWC. Her extensive travels for harvest and brand consulting to the Iberian Peninsula, Central and Eastern Europe, the US, South Africa, and Australia inform her work and drive her consultation partnerships. She co-founded Constant Crush Advisors in 2017 to continue her commitments to knowledge and idea sharing and to expanding the conversation around sustainable and innovative vineyard and wine production.
Chad Stock
Chad Stock holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Enology from California State University Fresno graduating in 2006 with top honors and the University Academic Achievement Award for his graduating class. After completing an apprenticeship in 2006 for Rudd Winery in Oakville, CA, he moved north to Oregon joining the team at Antica Terra in the Eola-Amity Hills, to help redesign and launch the new company. In 2011 he launched his own wine brand “Minimus”. Chad explores viticulture and wine production theory across the state of Oregon and has become the top advisor and consultant in the State for minimal intervention winemaking, vineyard establishment for alternative grape cultivars, and technical education for innovative and rare wine styles. In 2017 Chad launched his newest venture co-founding Constant Crush Advisors, an international comprehensive consultancy company specializing in vineyard and winery development, wine production, product development, packaging, and global product placement.