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Quixote Winery set against the chasm in the palisades famously named for a stag’s leap to freedom.

Quixote Winery barrel cellar set beneath a ceiling designed by vintner Carl Doumani and artist Freidensreich Hundertwasser. Light fixtures salvaged from an estate in the English countryside and shipped by Doumani to his Napa Valley winery.

Intimate nooks for work, tasting and entertaining are found at each turn in the Hundertwasser designed Quixote Winery.

Quixote Winery bottles; Quixote bottle, Panza Bottle. Photos: Jim Cross

Hundertwasser’s philosophy of melding structures into the surrounding landscape worked well with the natural landscape of the Stags’ Leap district. The dam that holds the vineyard reservoir forms the reach wall of the Hundertwasser-designed structure and flow into a sod roof in which trees, indigenous shrubs and grasses grow.

Tiles for the Hundertwasser design were custom crafted in Austria to meet his design standards for intensely saturated color.

Gold leaf for the Quixote Winery dome was applied by hand then burnished.

A new petite syrah vineyard, planted in the Spring of 2006, can be seen on the hill just above Quixote Winery.

Wild grasses surround the Hundertwasser-designed Quixote Winery blending comfortably into the indigenous landscape of the Stags Leap region.

A playful walkway trailing through the wild grasses to the entry of Quixote Winery gives visitors an immediate sense artist Freidensreich Hundertwasser’s philosophy:

• buildings should elevate man’s sense of himself
• they should settle into the landscape and always have a sod roof planted with trees and shrubs.

The great, expansive branches of old oaks welcome all who arrive at Quixote.