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Our clients, a longtime Northern California winemaking family, saw an expansion to the Suisun Valley as an opportunity to create a new tasting experience representative of the world-class, yet approachable wines they produce onsite. For client and design team, the location was a chance to establish a forward-looking wine culture accessible to all while celebrating the valley’s landscape and agricultural heritage. Our clients were also inspired by international examples of wineries that announced their presence in the landscape, while creating multisensory connections to their surroundings. The design evolved as a response to these goals and to the context of the site, located on the valley floor and close to mountains that separate the Suisun Valley from Napa to the west.
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Moving between welcome and retail building, courtyard, tasting pavilion, and vineyard paths, visitors are immersed within an extraordinary setting. The tasting pavilion is set above the valley floor to provide sweeping views of surrounding vineyards and nearby hills. Expansive sliding glass doors in the central tasting lounge invite the hallmark Suisun Valley breeze to flow through, giving guests a firsthand experience of the principal climate condition responsible for the region’s distinctive varietal profiles. Overhead, a pyramidal oculus emphasizes dramatic changing light throughout the day. Integral to the sense of presence within this emerging wine region, the tasting pavilion’s deep roof overhangs and dramatic west cantilever provide shade during warm afternoons.
Design strategies for daylighting and natural ventilation created a comfortable, airy hospitality environment. A sleek roofline seems to hover weightlessly over tasting rooms while containing mechanical equipment that efficiently manages indoor air temperatures when the tasting pavilion’s large operable doors and transom windows are closed. Hydronic tubing in the concrete slab-on-grade provides efficient radiant heating in winter and chilled floor cooling in summer, closer to building occupants. Minimizing unnecessary finishes, the design integrates a restrained palette of wood, concrete, an aluminum and glass window system, and mass timber. The team worked with local artists and artisans to create custom interior fixtures and furnishings made with local and regional materials.
Since completion, our clients have enjoyed welcoming many new visitors to the property - reservations have been largely full since the project opened to the public in early summer 2022. The project has also hosted events and gatherings, as well as architecture and design tours, encouraging visitors from around the country and world to learn more about the design and project process.
Bohlin Cywinski Jackson is an architecture practice of six studios across the country focused on designing places that inspire connection and wonder. We work with you to understand the nature of your unique circumstance—the people, place, and materials that inform each design—to help translate your community’s collective aspirations into built environments that are greater than the sum of their parts. The resulting architecture feels simultaneously grounded and transcendent, carefully crafted to embody resilience and adapt to an ever-changing world.
