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The architect describes this as a "a deceptively simple industrial structure". The warm and textural building sits on a 100 acre site of second-growth forest and vineyards. The owners wanted the wine and the winery to have a straightfoward, almost rustic kind of elegance. The walls are of heavy Douglas fir framing and vertical redwood siding. All the lumber was cut on site as land was cleared for vines, and sawn there in a temporary mill. The only embellishments to the building are a rectangular cupola skylight and, on the north side, a trellised porch that serves as a crushing bay during harvest, and is covered with climbing white roses. |
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