Hess Collection Winery

Wine, Etc.: Gift recommendations for the red wine lover
Capital (Annapolis); 12/2/2009; 987 words; ...its blockbuster cab. Most of the grapes come from the winery's Bancroft Ranch vineyard on Howell Mountain where...elegant fruit. Drink now or hold for 5-plus years. Hess Collection Mount Veeder Cabernet Sauvignon 2006 ($50). From...

Napa art ripening next to the vine ; Painting and sculpture are springing up all over the vineyard-rich valley
International Herald Tribune; 10/3/2009; 1498 words; ...private, museum-worthy collections secreted in the rolling...of the Robert Mondavi Winery (841 Latour Court...region's most dynamic collection requires no wrangling...contemporary art, the Hess Art Museum at the Hess Collection Winery...The owner, Donald Hess, a Swiss ...

James Turrell Museum: light and space aplenty.(FRONT PAGE)
Art in America; 9/1/2009; 1198 words; ...Swiss winemaker Donald Hess explained that he bought a 19th-century winery at Colome, in northwest...created a museum for his collection of Turrells, which until...certificates in gray boxes. Hess conjectured that Turrell...critics wonder, will Hess's commercial enterprise...

On show in the wonderful winelands.(Life)
Cape Times (South Africa); 7/29/2009; 976 words; ...by the pleasures wineries offer. But these...couple of jacked-up wineries show smart art as...Spier, the Lynedoch winery that set the tone...comes from the Spier collection and it is worth...collector. Owned by the Hess Group, the winery's attractive...hub surrounded by ...

Mountain wines, and the mountain winemakers, are a different breed
Oakland Tribune; 7/27/2009; 1257 words; ...surround the high elevations of the Hess Collection Winery's Veeder Summit Vineyard, and...which makes up the majority of Hess Collection's 19 Block Cuvee...to coolness," says Johnson, Hess Collection consulting winemaker...