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A few weeks ago, when Jon was visiting from the East Coast, we drove up to Sonoma for the weekend and visited one of my favorite wineries: Scribe. This is a really small (~6500 cases/year) wine-maker, that has quite a fun history. In the mid-19th century, some German brothers came over to California, smuggling vine cuttings with them. They started a winery on what is now Scribe, and enjoyed success until the Prohibition law of 1920 came into effect and wiped out their business. In the succeeding years, the land was used as a turkey farm until the 2000s, when another set of brothers (Americans, this time) decided to buy the land and found an artisanal winery.
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On this visit, however, I was less focused on the vineyard than another building on the property--one that has always held an air of enchantment around it: the Hacienda. According to the historical records found by Scribe, this Mission Revival-style edifice was built in 1915, after the German brothers' home burned down in a fire. There is a marvelous Grand Passage entry road, lined with palm trees, that takes you up to a beautiful wraparound porch, also flanked by palms.
With the permission of the staff, Jon and I left the tasting area and prowled around the Hacienda before lunch. It's still vacant and some could say decrepit, but we were enchanted by the labyrinth-like layout of rooms, and the way that the light, color, and space made everything beautiful and inviting. Sunlight bathes this house, flooding through openings, doorjambs, and window panes. Instead of feeling ghostly, though, the atmosphere was soft and mysterious.
Below are some of my glimpses into this lovely building.
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