Edge Hill Winery

Established in 1867, Edge Hill was the first significant three-level, gravity-fed winery in Napa Valley, and by 1880, it was one of the four wineries responsible for over half of the Valley’s wine production. The all-stone, three story building housed all of the winemaking processes from the loading of harvested grapes via wagon on the top level, to the crushing fruit and barreling of the juice on the second level, to the fermenting, aging and storing of the wine on the bottom level. It was the use of gravity at it's finest.  

Edge Hill we decommissioned by Prohibition in the 1920's and the facility and property wallowed in disrepair thereafter. Prohibition in the United States -also know as the "Noble Experiment" - was the period from 1920 to 1933, during which the sale, manufacture, and transportation of alcohol for consumption were banned nationally as mandated in the 18th Amendment to the US Constitution. While Prohibition was successful in reducing the amount of liquor consumed, it tended to destroy society by other means, as it stimulated the proliferation of rampant underground, organized and widespread criminal activity. On December 5, 1933, the ratification of the 21st Amendment repealed the Eighteenth Amendment.  

Edge Hill was used for various ventures through the decades thereafter including a distillery. In 1999, the great legacy of the property and it's prime Napa location inspired Edge Hill’s new stewards, to begin the historic restoration of the winery and estate, and return Edge Hill to the prominence it had enjoyed in the 19th century. They commissioned KAA to help conceive of a modern-day winery and production facility and luxury residence while respecting the historic quality of the original site layout and 115 year-old stone building shell.