![]() ![]() From the hospitality lounge, the visitor’s journey continues onto the landscaped terrace, with shaded lounge seating available for open air tastings. On the far side of the grand stair tucked into the northeast hillside, a terraced event/theater space offers a generous setting for brand presentations, lectures, performances or industry events. Steadfast Pinot Noir vines endure, unwavering, in inhospitable conditions, battered by wind and fog, struggling to utilize every precious hour of warmth and sunlight. ![]() Perched upon the bridge, this two-story glass-enclosed lounge offers visitors a seamless indoor/outdoor wine country experience and sweeping views. Determined hillside Cabernet vines struggle to find purchase on steep, rocky slopes, where well-draining soils inspire roots to burrow deep in search of life-sustaining moisture. Visitors emerge on axis with the formal gardens and are greeted in a reception space with filtered views of vineyards to the North and South, and glimpses through to the central hospitality lounge beyond. This core lifts guests up past the bottling/production level, into the hub of the hospitality center. ![]() The visitor is then led through an elegant vaulted passageway before entering into the sun-drenched grand stair and elevator core. Here, an elliptical foyer cave is conceived as a venue for a concierge greeting which might begin the hospitality experience. The guest experience begins as visitors enter across a landscaped path through the vineyard and into a central cave network. The bridge affords the visitor an exquisite, lush and expansive promenade perched dramatically overlooking surrounding valleys. Completing the masterplan is the dramatic “bridge“ between production and hospitality uses. The concept builds the architectural parti and program on this juxtaposition, with a production winery that burrows into and under the hillside, and a hospitality center that is perched on and rises above the land. My husband and I had an enjoyable conversation with the person pouring our wine taste tests. The winery masterplan employs two distinct but complementary strategies to respect its stunning site – architecture that both embeds deeply within the land and rests lightly upon it. 84 reviews of Hillside Winery 'A very enjoyable place for wine tasting. BCV’s conceptual approach to a new winery sheltered in the hills of Napa Valley is envisioned as an architectural expression of the life cycle of wine, from the earth to the glass. ![]()
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