We always assume wineries want to have visitors; the more people coming through the property the better, "it is good PR" someone said to me once.
I thought that was true until we visited Dominus in Napa Valley. The owner, Christian Moueix a French native, feels different. After he purchased the land, came the need to build the winery. To him that means a place where the production of wine takes place and offices are housed and he wanted to keep it that way, so he hired a duo of brilliant architects and the guidelines were: I want to be invisible, sustainable and non-obstructing.
They couldn't dig because it will disturb the alluvial soils that the vines were sitting on and therefore disturb the growth of their roots.
