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Our private Rutherford winery, high atop the eastern hills of Rutherford is accessible only with advance reservations. You and your guests will indulge in a guided tour of the winery and adjacent Sacrashe Vineyard, explore 14,000 square feet of caves and HALL's extensive art collection, and taste HALL's most prestigious wines in the Hospitality Room. Completed in March of 2005, this high-tech facility has been carefully designed for the production of small-lot red wine. Custom made three-to-six-ton fermenters afford our winemakers great flexibility and precision handling of vineyard blocks and the ability to micro-manage every aspect of the winemaking process. Unlike the Halls' St. Helena property, which is able to handle more significant quantities of grapes during harvest, this compact gravity-flow winery is dedicated solely to the production of rare and single vineyard red wines. The winery's 14,000 square feet of caves were designed and built by hand by Friedrich Gruber of Gutenstein Austria. The caves are finished with handmade Austrian brick recovered from sites in and around Vienna and showcases select works from the Halls' art collection. Deep inside the caves resides a dazzling reception area for private tastings and entertaining. The room's spectacular chandelier, designed by Donald Lipski and Jonquil LeMaster, is dressed in hundreds of Swarovski crystals.
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