There is no tasting room, no visitor center, and none of the typical physical embodiments of the Napa wine tourist trade. Instead the idea was to expose the manufacture of the wine in a modernist idiom. "I'm about modern Napa Valley," Smith said. "I always thought that Tuscan architecture or chateau style was a borrowed paradigm, a borrowed aesthetic. I think this building is more authentically Napa." Photo 2 of 12 in Blueline at Hourglass Winery by Aaron Britt

Blueline at Hourglass Winery

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There is no tasting room, no visitor center, and none of the typical physical embodiments of the Napa wine tourist trade. Instead the idea was to expose the manufacture of the wine in a modernist idiom. "I'm about modern Napa Valley," Smith said. "I always thought that Tuscan architecture or chateau style was a borrowed paradigm, a borrowed aesthetic. I think this building is more authentically Napa."