'Very personal to us': Petaluma's Barber Cellars changes name to Brutal Hill Winery

Brutal Hill Winery is the new name for the local winemaker for formerly known as Barber Cellars. (Brutal Hill Winery) By David Templeton | [email protected] | [email protected]: November 9, 2026 at 5:50 PM PST Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...Mike and Lorraine Barber at Taste Petaluma in Petaluma Tuesday, Aug. 11, 2026. (Beth Schlanker / The Press Democrat) Mike and Lorraine Barber have made a lot of changes to their downtown Petaluma businesses lately, from consolidating their Barber Cellars and Barber Lee Spirits tasting rooms into one, to rebranding those combined storefronts as Taste Petaluma. They also brought in Mad Chocolate Co. along with their own Petaluma Cheese Shop, which shared space with Barber Cellars in a shop fronting Hotel Petaluma, which they have since moved out of, consolidating nearby at 120 Washington St. The latest change is to the name of their winemaking business. As of last month, Barber Cellars is no more.

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