Stock & Associates was selected by the Hambrecht Wine Group to design a state-of-the-art gravity flow winery for a mature vineyard on top of Bradford Mountain in the Dry Creek Appellation. The site was a five acre block at the top of the vineyard sloping to the south near the main residence. Hambrecht requested that the facility be broken up in a California barn form with lower support buildings reflecting the agricultural character of the area. The office, tasting room and fermentation building are clustered around the crush deck at the top of the site. A series of barrel rooms are aligned along a covered ramp that stepped down the site. At the bottom of the ramp around an open work terrace is the lower portion of the Fermentation Barn with large tanks for blending, with bottling and vineyard support buildings. The fermentation building was designed with raised islands at the crush deck level with small batch open-top fermentors on the lower work terrace level. The winery was designed to utilize passive cooling, earth berm barrel storage and green materials as much as possible.
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