Hall Winery project ups the ante for Napa architecture

[Jenise]

They've hired no less than Frank Gehry. Pretty interesting building.

http://www.hallwines.com/site/gehry-project

Flora Springs is doing a "budget Gehry" tasting room almost next door. (I actually love the old Flora Springs winery up on the hillside. Cool wine caves.)

Perhaps, following the ways of the Rioja wineries.

Ramon

I think some of his concepts are more successful than others, but I like this one.

And I like his philosophy of creativity: "I don't know where I'm going. If I knew where I was going, I wouldn't go there."

I dunno. I'm sure I'll like the building once it's up and open but I also have this strong feeling that things in Napa have gotten totally out of control.

Anybody ever tasted a Hall winery wine? I've never even seen one.

First I ever heard of it was when my son showed me a Hall winery promotion brochure, which I suspect the Craig Halls sent to everybody in Texas with their surname. I didn't get one as I live in Seattle, just a few miles from Frank Gehry's unforgetable Experience Music Project, an unforgetable love-it-or-hate it building housing Paul Allen's rock museum.

Clint Hall