inheritance" story you would like to share with us? we would love to hear it, send nothing.mail or go tour web good night. . >> an 8-year-old gets a very strange inheritance. >> when my dad died everyone was heart broken. >> what does a guy do with a winery? >> the funny thing is i would tell my friend's parents and they would totally freak out. >> talk about getting your feet wet in a new business. >> that is really good. >> but how does the family keep it from dying on the vine? >> i didn't know anything about wine except they like to drink it. >> so what's the heir going to do when he grows up? >> trying to prove i'm not the owner's kid who just gets handed these things.

. jamie: i'm jamie colby, and today i'm traveling through the willamette valley of oregon. wine country. in fact, this area is home to around 400 wineries. you can probably guess what the episode of "strange inheritance" is all about, but it's one that was passed down far too soon, and to a most improbable heir. >> my name is pascal brooks. when i was 8 years old i inherited something that is pretty special and blows my mind. jamie: thank you so much for having me, pascal. it is an hyou. how unusual is it for somebody your age to be in charge of all this? >> i'm not the one that does the work, i simply own it. jamie: the 18-year-old may own this winery but he can't legally drink its product. however, he does pitch in every so often to get a good feel for

his strange inheritance. >> family winery, very nice. jamie: the story how pascal became the world's youngest owner of a winery begins with his father, jimi brooks. jannie heuck is pascal's aunt. >> as we got older and out of high school week took very, very different paths. jamie: she dips through a degree in accounting while jimi goes on the five year plan, finally gets his b.a. and finds himself by traveling through europe. >> he moved over there, took a few jobs. we'd spend his money traveling and find another job. jamie: for one job, jimi harvests grapes in the beaujolais region of france and another in krakow poland after setting eyes on 20-year-old waitress.

romance leads to marriage in september 1995. soon baby pascal arrives and jimi moves his young family back to portland. >> i remember the first time when we drove from the airport into portland, i've never seen anything like that. this beautiful river. >> reporter: . jamie: jimi gets a gig as a vineyard manager and gets a wine. he was not a winemaker but motorcycle mechanic. >> jimi's goal was to make wines people enjoyed. jamie: while jimi is focused on his career, his marriage turns bitter. in 2000 they divorced. they agree pascal will spend every other weekend with his dad. on many a saturday, jimi takes

pascal to work. your dad tried to pull interview this as a kid, right? he wanted you around. >> whenever i was with him it was more for the fact i was with him and he was happy i was there. jamie: what do you remember about your dad? >> i'd wake up and it would be cold and we'd be in a dilapidated truck and get coffee and a cinnamon roll in the morning. >> by 2001 he's head winemaker and allowed to make thousands of cases of brooks wine on the side. jimi buys grapes from other farmers and lead ace 20 acre plot with one vine and hopes to buy it one day. jimi is a pioneer in oregon of a farming method he learned in france called biodynamics, it uses no chemicals or additives and focuses on soil fertility and the phases of the moon. chris gives me a backstage tour and shows me how they make

their pinot noir. >> beautiful grapes. may i taste one? >> of course. nice and ripe, sweet, but not too sweet. jamie: amazing. >> the idea behind pino is to have berries and fermentation allowed inside the berry. jamie: how many bottles of wine am i looking at? >> about 120 gallon, roughly 50 cases. jamie: by december 2003, jimi's wines are noticed around oregon and beyond. he hopes that one day his winery will be his son's inheritance. >> he stated clearly he wanted his winery to be a legacy for pascal. jamie: then one saturday morning in september 2004, jimi is arguing with his ex-wife about whose turn it is to be with pascal. after that call, jimi makes

another one to his girlfriend. >> he was on the phone with his girlfriend when he mentioned that his chest was hurting and could she come over. jamie: before jimi's girlfriend can arrive, jimi days of aortic aneurysm. he's 38 years old. pascal is 8. >> i think when my dad died everyone was heart broken. kids soak up the atmosphere. wasn't that i readily want to do that, you don't know how to rationalize it. jamie: jimi's sister is at home with husband and two young children when she gets the call. she immediately begins the long trek up to oregon. she arrives to find a crowd of people she barely knows in her brother's house. what happens next will not only turn janni's life upside down but to determine whether her nephew's "strange inheritance" is enough wither on the vine.

>> one of the few things you can do for someone who died is help their family take care of their unfinished business. jamie: that's next. and later -- >> how deep is it? >> about a penny. jamie: gymnastics. ahhh! wooo! >> but first our "strange inheritance" quiz question -- the answer in a moment.

. >> so what's the reason some winemakers crush their grapes their feet? it's c, flavor. the human foot is ideally suited to crushing grapes without breaking open the grape seeds that give wine a bitter taste. jamie: it's september 2004, the middle of harvest season for oregon winemakers. this year, however, shock permeates the landscape after jimi brooks dies unexpectedly. the 38-year-old leaves behind a wine label that's won critical acclaim and his only heir an 8-year-old son pascal. there are also loose ends. jimi has no will and zero savings.

he's left pascal's mom bozena with few options. >> pascal inherited the winery it was like a label, not much behind it. i said the only thing i can try is to raise pascal. jamie: another pressing issue, jimi left several tons of grapes still on the vine. sister janie arrives in oregon to settle his affairs. >> what did the other growers tell you about the importance of jimi's work continueing? >> he was blazing new trails and they didn't want to see the brand go away, and they all stepped up and offered to take his fruit and make the wine for free, if i would help them bond. jamie: tad is one of the other growers and a longtime friend of jimi's. >> one of the few things you can do for someone who's died is help their family take care of their unfinished business. jimi told me, at least a

handful of times, he didn't feel he had much of a legacy for pascal beside his winery. jamie: so tad and the other growers harvest jimi's crop, make it into wine and keep brooks winery alive, and janie begins the legal paperwork of transferring ownership of brooks winery to nephew pascal. she agrees to be manager of the winery without pay, there's one big problem. >> i didn't know anything about wine at all, except they like to drink it. jamie: janie bones up on vita culture, the study of grapes for wine making and asks chris to be head winemaker. >> was it important for him to take the role? >> he worked for jimi and learned everything he knew about making wine. jamie: this sounds like a recipe for disaster. 8-year-old kid and accountant

aunt get together with former motorcycle mechanic to make wine? let me sit down and taste that pinot before passing judgment. so aerate why? >> brings out the aeromatics. >> smell because? >> it gives you the sense of what you actually get. jamie: wow, i'm speechless, normally i come up with tobacco and wood tree and mold in a good way, it's none of those things. okay, delicious wine, not a bad start. but selling wine is a hypercompetitive business and i've learned getting the first bottles sold while making next vintage can require big bucks. all of this doesn't come cheap. >> trying to keep the demand side equivalent to our supply was a big learning curve for me. jamie: while janie goes on the road to entice distributors, pascal trolleys off to grade school, able to brag about being the youngest winery owner in the world.

>> i think the funniest thing with that is when i would tell my friends' parents and they would totally freak out. jamie: soon several stores in the high-end supermarket chain whole foods agree to stock brooks wine as well as nine other states and japan. on a roll in 2005, janie renegotiates the lease for the same vineyard where jimi had been growing his grapes and develops a 2500-square-foot sales and tasting room in amity, oregon. >> it got to the point where i had to get to the point of how to add more markets so we could sell more wine. jamie: faced with losing momentum and losing her brother's only legacy to her son, janie searches for her next move. that is until affairs of state intervened. >> lo and behold, i got a phone

call from the white house. jamie: that, and the future of brooks wine's young heir next on "strange inheritance." >> here's another quiz question for you -- the answer, when we return. "%ñ

>> so which of these states produces the most wine? the answer is c, pennsylvania is america's fifth biggest wine producing state behind california, new york, washington and oregon. jamie: it's 2009, and

13-year-old pascal brooks remains the world's youngest winery owner, following the untimely death of his father jimi brooks. his aunt janie heuck volunteered to oversee brooks wines until its young heir comes of age, she's struggling to keep her brother's legacy afloat. that is, until she gets a phone call from a wine steward in chicago. >> he called me and told me he was catering a dinner and wanted to serve our riesling, and lo and behold i got a call and e-mail from the white house. jamie: brooks 2006 riesling is selected for president barack obama's first state dinner, honoring the prime minister of india. when the white house calls and places an order for a state dinner does, that wine sell out? >> in this case because there was so much hype around it dinner, it mate it more sought after. jamie: even though brooks wines

is riding high, things aren't going as well for pascal. >> i think there's the age when their dad should be there, they will never get that. it was a difficult time for pascal. jamie: add to that pascal and his mom have relocated across the country from portland to pittsburgh so she could take a new job. >> when i left oregon i was heart broken. i think for me, i was still in shock. jamie: pascal spent summers in oregon, but the trips remind him of what's missing in his life. his father. what is it like to not be able to turn to your dad and say hey, dad. >> the older you get there's a shadow of something that should be there. you are constantly clinging for something like that. jamie: during his summer visits, pascal gets hands-on experience in the winery he owns. >> does it bring you comfort to have this be a part of your

life? >> for the fact of making people's lives easier and trying to prove the fact i'm not just the owner's kid who gets handed these kids. jamie: finally time for me to get hands-on experience of my own, well, not hands-on but feet-on. the time honored practice of stomping grapes. >> jamie, come on in, join me. jamie: all right, where's my stunt double when i need her? how deep is it? >> up to our knees. jamie: gymnastics. ahhhh! w oooo! grapes feel good, i hear they're anti-aging. what are we doing exactly? >> little separation before we make it into rose. separating the berry from juice. jamie: what an awesome feeling, they still make wine this way? >> some places they do.

whoa, that is really good. jamie: introoks too big to make its wine this way, you might say it's on more solid footing. they're making pinot noirs and rieslings in jimi's style, 12,000 case a year and selling in 14 states, japan and the u.k. >> we have a great distribution network, so plenty of demand for our product throughout the country and i feel we're solid and stable. jamie: solid enough for janie to realize it's time for a big step. a plot of land very special to her brother comes up for sale. a 20 acre vineyard he always wanted to buy. >> it's time to acquire the vineyard. jamie: what about the 18-year-old owner of brooks winery? what does this mean for him and his strange inheritance? >> what if you go college and decide i want to be an architect? that's next. how do i get hotel deals nobody else gets?... i know a guy.

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>> now back to "strange inheritance." jamie: 2014 marks the 10th anniversary of jimi brooks death, a winemaker whose passion and innovative techniques live on through the dedication of his sister janie, his best friend chris, and his only child pascal. now 18 years old, and the heir to this strange inheritance. since jimi died in 2004, janie has been running the business and growing it by leaps and bounds. >> we grew from jimi making 2500 cases to now we make between 12,000 and 14,000 which really is the sweet spot in terms of keeping our wines affordable. jamie: janie knew when her brother started the winery, he wanted it to have a permanent vineyard on a special plot of land, the one he was leasing

when he grew his last crop of grapes in 2004. when it comes up for sale, brooks wines is not able to swing the deal by itself. aunt janie decides now is the time. sdru to put any of your own money in? >> yeah, my husband and i personally own the vineyard and pascal leases it from us. >> in april 2014, the brooks winery you see today broke ground. the business is still 100% owned by pascal. it's no longer the fledgling label his father left behind but a big enterprise with long-term commitment. so how does all that fit with a young man headed off to college? will he follow in his dad's footsteps? what if you go college and decide i want to be an architect? >> that's what i will do. i'll still own it but i'll be an architect. jamie: before pascal heads off, janie throws a party to celebrate the new winery, and

their loving memory of jimi brooks. >> so that was your dad's europe backpack, and this is a draft book, a collection of stories and pictures from your dad's friends. i didn't have time to finish it, but -- [ applause ] >> one of my favorite thing he's left me is his library. i've gone through and found his notes in the margins or tones, it's like having a conversation with him. >> i think this is a good point in his life, when he is looking forward to honor his dad's memory, and he is making his own path and that is exactly like his dad. >> he's my rainbow. the day we broke ground here, there was a double rainbow over the vineyard. i'm not a super spiritual person that way, but i do feel

when things need to be brighter, something good will happen, and i attribute that to him. >> the brooks wines label comes from a tattoo that jimi had on his left arm. the mythical serpent swallowing its own tail. in cultures around the world, it represents the never-ending cycle of life, death and renewal. when he chose it, jimi could not have known just how appropriate a symbol it would become for the winery that he founded, that his sister rescued and built into a success and that his son pascal has inherited. and now pascal tells me he's going to get that same tattoo. so here's to all that. i'm jamie colby for "strange inheritance." thanks so much for watching, and remember, you can't take it with you. do you have a

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