The winery itself is secluded from the road--the Napa thoroughfare Silverado Trail--but once you wind up the small hillside vineyard it reveals itself in all it's agro-industrial modernist splendor. After a two-year search for another property for Hourglass, Smith found what would become the Blueline property. He told me that he "tripped along this property by accident. I was actually coming back from the dump." He bought it in 2006 and got underway with construction in 2007. Photo 3 of 7 in A Dwell Guide to the California Wine Country by Megan Hamaker from Blueline at Hourglass Winery

A Dwell Guide to the California Wine Country

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The winery itself is secluded from the road--the Napa thoroughfare Silverado Trail--but once you wind up the small hillside vineyard it reveals itself in all it's agro-industrial modernist splendor. After a two-year search for another property for Hourglass, Smith found what would become the Blueline property. He told me that he "tripped along this property by accident. I was actually coming back from the dump." He bought it in 2006 and got underway with construction in 2007.