The Bardessono family has been producing fine cabernet sauvignon on its family land in Napa Valley’s middle ground of Yountville for eighty five years and it will likely continue for at least another eighty five.
The Bardessono family has been producing fine cabernet sauvignon on its family land in Napa Valley’s middle ground of Yountville for eighty five years and it will likely continue for at least another eighty five. But those vines will have a new neighbor on the property, in the form of Napa Valley’s newest luxury resort, the sixty-two room Bardessono hotel, restaurant and spa. The family has approached the facility and its development with the intention of leading the way for luxury hotels in ecological design. To help them do that, they have hired a pioneer in green property developments, Phil Sherburne, who has spent twenty years designing and developing properties which combine the interests of the client with the needs of the public and a minimal impact on nature.
The Napa Valley property will be designed around four interior courtyards, with intimate pathways between the buildings and community paths extend outward from the property, all incorporating sustainable local Napa Valleynative landscaping. Bardessono will apply for Platinum LEED certification which would make it one of the greenest hotels currently in existence. The hotel will derive half of its power from solar panels and employ numerous geothermal wells for additional power production to heat rooms and water. Throughout the propety there is prodigious use of recycled, and upcycled materials for structural elements as well as aesthetics.
But as much as the property is being built with a conscience and intends to blend in with the surroundings in order to be as unobtrusive as possible, it will not suffer in the luxuries department. The roof will take the unusual step for the area of housing the swimming pool, replete with a pizza oven and private cabanas while affording guests any available breezes and beautiful vistas of the Mayacamas Mountains and the Stag’s Leap Palisades. Guest rooms will be afforded generous natural lighting and each room will have a private courtyard, outdoor showers and heated tubs. Napa County’s newest, and greenest, hotel, restaurant and spa will open in February, 2009.
