In the fall of 1999, Bruce and Barbara purchased a 30-acre parcel in the Sage Canyon area of Napa Valley, a few miles east of Rutherford on Highway 128, near Lake Hennessey. Ehren Jordan oversaw the design and renovation of the existing winery building into a fully equipped, 'state of the art' wine production facility, with a central processing and fermentation cellar separating the two barrel storage cellars used for red and white barrel aging respectively. Winemaking operations began at the new facility in October of 2000 with the red grape crush, and the entire 2001 vintage was produced here. The individual wings were built using natural construction materials, and the group of buildings sits comfortably into a recess cut into the rocky north slope of Pritchard Hill, alongside Sage Creek.