California - 2008 Official State Visitor's Guide and Travel Planner - (Page 34) enjoy » my california » pat kuleto california style Winemaker, restaurateur, and designer, Pat Kuleto defines California living at Kuleto’s office at his winery overlooking the winery. “It’s like a small village,” Kuleto says as we take in the L Napa Valley] is built around an old Napa Valley [ view from the patio of his home, called Villa Cucina. Casual oak tree whose trunk shoots up through the roof. As he and welcoming, his home, with its rustic, Mediterraneanleads me through the magnificent Italianate winery and resiinfluenced design, is perfect for the wine country climate and, dence he has created on this ridge, I realize that having a massive faced with local stone, seems part of the landscape. “The ranch tree growing through a room suggests something about his sense is simply a microcosm of California, where everything beautiful of scale, and everything about Pat Kuleto is big: his reputation happens in abundance,” he says. “I love to create environments as a restaurateur and winemaker, his appetite for life, his vision and spaces that people will enjoy. Everything about this place is of the California lifestyle. a people magnet. Besides all the natural beauty, WINERY TOURS Kuleto Estate is a 761-acre ranch on a wild I’ve managed to integrate lovely architecture. Kuleto Estate hillside east of Napa Valley. When Kuleto bought People want to be here.” Tastings and tours of the property in 1992, it was basically inaccessible, Indeed, every deck, terrace, and patio seems to the estate are held twice a day by appointment. left mainly to foraging cattle and oak trees. Today cry out for a party. Arbors of grapevines hang 707/963-9750. the land is dotted with 46 small vineyards growing heavy with fruit, rose gardens bloom, long rustic Wine country events See L wine country [ different grape varietals according to the unique wood tables sit ready for the immense spread they events] for a sample of microclimates and soil conditions of each plot. clearly were made for. “Everything we eat is grown attractions. But the estate is more than just a vineyard and on the property,” Kuleto says, plucking a fig off a 34 P Enter L keyword in Search box at visitcalifornia.com Stephanie Rausser http://www.visitcalifornia.com
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