Planted into 8.5 acres of Sonoma hillside at Healdsburg's edge, where working vineyards climb directly behind the pool deck and valley oaks shade the garden paths between buildings, the campus that John Hill designed for Appellation Healdsburg opened in 2025 as one of California wine country's most deliberately land-rooted new properties. Hart Howerton served as architect of record through construction. The result is twelve low-rise buildings organized into two village neighborhoods, their massing clad in warm timber screens and anchored by coursed stone bases that echo the dry-stack walls common to Sonoma's older agricultural properties. Clerestory windows push light deep into the upper levels, while the gable-ended roofline of the rooftop bar frames a full wall of glazing directed at the vine rows beyond. EDG Interior Architecture & Design carried the agrarian logic indoors through white oak millwork, hand-glazed tile, and sliding barn doors, set against a palette of earthy gold and muted green that reads as a direct translation of the surrounding landscape into upholstery and paint. Guest rooms show the thinking clearly: leather-trimmed platform beds, cross-legged walnut side tables, and built-in banquettes with saffron-yellow bases sit beneath vaulted ceilings fitted with clerestory glazing. The rooftop bar goes further, lining its ceiling in reclaimed wood planks and filling the space with deep navy channel-tufted sofas and clusters of alabaster globe pendants, the vineyard hills filling the gable window like a painting that changes with the season.

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