all those cards section by section. Unbelievable.

Just beyond Peter's work is "Exploded View (Expanding)," a video art piece by Jim Campbell made out of 1,728 LED lights in which birds seemingly fly through at random. Every 20 minutes or so, a large blackbird flits across the lights. It took a long time for Jim to find the appropriate spot for this piece, as there are so few winery spaces dark enough to show the lights. We love where it is now. It's the first thing you see when you reach the top of the stairs, and it remains the piece that most people cluster around.

In the tasting room just beyond, Spencer Finch's glass panels suspended on almost invisible wires reflect the light outside as well as the colorsa big part of going the extra mile when it comes to making great wines. Last year, for example, Steve began to wonder if some of the terroir qualities reflected in Pinot Noirs are actually imparted from the soil itself. So he threw some of the dirt from Rita's Crown vineyard, located in the Santa Barbara County's Santa Rita region, into grapes from a vineyard in Northern California's Russian River Valley. He wanted to see if that Southern California dirt could impact the overall flavor and aroma profile of the Russian River Valley Pinot Noir.

Some people would have thought that was crazy, but we love the result. In blind tastings, the presence of that earthy, dusty, mineral character that distinctly comes from the windswept Santa Barbara vineyard with