Beaulieu Vineyard
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Location
Napa, California
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Owner
Treasury Wine Estates
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Architect
Signum Architecture
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Landscape Architect
Blasen Landscape Architecture
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Builder
Wright Contracting
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Photographer
Adam Potts
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Lighting Consultant
Vita Pehar Design, Inc.
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Art Consultant
Jasmin Bode
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Structural Engineers
Degen Klob Engineers
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Team Members
Janet Mercier
Building Upon a Legacy, a Living Estate
The original stone buildings provide the project with both its authority and its character. Their substantial masonry, irregular surfaces, and traces of use were preserved as a record of the estate, while new architectural openings, custom millwork, integrated lighting, and contemporary furnishings introduce a distinct present-day vocabulary.
Materials reinforce that continuity. Redwood reclaimed from the winery’s former fermentation vats appears overhead in the Rutherford Atrium, while salvaged timber, oak, leathered stone, cork, warm metals, and bronzed mirror give the interiors depth and tactility. The contrast is intentional: the new work does not imitate the historic architecture, but gives it greater presence.
The renewed estate accommodates a broad range of hospitality, from the central tasting bar and public galleries to the Georges de Latour Wine Library, Members Bar, Rarity Room, private event spaces, and outdoor terraces. Each has its own atmosphere, yet all remain unmistakably part of Beaulieu Vineyard.
Anticipation became one of the project’s central design strategies.
The interiors are composed as a sequence of framed views, with each room offering a glimpse of what lies beyond. A courtyard appears past the tasting bar; archive bottles glow within the stone wine library; artifacts are embedded into the architecture; and shifts in light, scale, and material quietly draw guests forward.
Display is integral to this sequence. Wine, historic documents, recovered objects, and collected memorabilia are treated as architectural elements rather than decoration. In the Reception Gallery, an illuminated timeline introduces the people and events that shaped BV. Elsewhere, wine-box detailing informs the Rarity Room millwork, magnums are incorporated into custom cabinetry, and the Georges de Latour Wine Library places the estate’s archive at the center of the room.
These moments reveal BV gradually, rewarding curiosity rather than presenting its history all at once. The winery’s legacy emerges through the movement between spaces, the objects encountered along the way, and the enduring marks left within the buildings themselves.
