Ashes & Diamonds Winery

Ashes & Diamonds' design-philosophy flagship — Napa Valley Cabernet Sauvignon produced in the restrained, food-first, 1970s-and-80s California style that Kashy Khaledi's mid-century design vision demands of every wine, showing what minimal-extraction, lower-alcohol Napa Valley Cabernet tastes like when architectural conviction and aesthetic coherence guide every winemaking decision.

The most architecturally fitting Ashes & Diamonds red expression — Cabernet Franc in the herbal, mineral, food-first Loire-Bordeaux tradition that matches the mid-century design ethos of elegant restraint over ostentatious power, one of the most seriously produced and design-philosophy-consistent Napa Valley Cabernet Franc programs.

The most unusual and architecturally resonant Ashes & Diamonds white — Napa Valley Semillon in the waxy, honeyed, food-compatible Bordeaux blanc tradition that mid-century California wine culture embraced but the subsequent Chardonnay obsession largely erased, one of the most seriously and consistently produced Napa Valley Semillon programs available.

Ashes & Diamonds' most seasonally appropriate and design-complete expression — Napa Valley Rosé in the dry, mineral, gastronomic Provençal tradition, its pale salmon color and food-first restraint as architecturally appropriate to the mid-century Case Study House pavilion as the Eames chairs in the tasting room.