The Fermentation Barn

The only newly constructed building at the site, the 5,800 square-foot fermentation barn is built with reclaimed, century-old fir beams and features traditional American barn-building methods. The wood-frame barn has been assembled using age-old techniques of hand-joinery for post and beam construction that were common in antiquity. Yet, the barn houses a modern winery equipped to hand craft the wine from each individual vineyard. Features include:

• a structure comprised of 450 century-old fir beams reclaimed from sites throughout North America, fashioned in post-and-beam, mortise-and-tenon construction
• the structure is held together by 400 wooden pegs known as "trunnels," which were driven by hand using wooden mallets known as "beetles"
• creative engineering enabled this barn to meet seismic building codes, while preserving its 19th century style
• night-flow air regulates the barn’s temperature; louvers automatically open or close throughout the day and night, to maintain the proper temperature
• Western Red cedar board and batten siding
• exterior stone wainscot, fashioned from hand cut and chiseled limestone and volcanic tuff
• traditional galvanized tin corrugated roof
• the 19th century-style building houses 21st century equipment uniquely suited to custom making small-lot, single-vineyard wines, including 26 computer and temperature-controlled stainless steel tanks in three sizes; floating aluminum catwalks; utilities; night flow air ventilation; state-of-the-art work and aesthetic lighting