Sequitur Winery | Newberg, Oregon, | 2022

Architects: Observation Studio
Design Team: Brent Linden, Christopher Brown, Dillon Phillips, Jared Abraham, and Hutch Landfair
Landscape Architects: Reed Hilderbrand LLC. (Masterplan) and Wesley Younie, Garden Design
General Contractor: AD Construction
Client: Sequitur Wine
Photographers: Jeremy Bittermann

In the Chehalem Valley outside of Newberg, Oregon, Observation Studio converted a disused dairy farm into a vibrant, working vineyard, restoring the farm’s heavy timber barn into a cathedral for winemaking. The property, called Etzel Farm, sits at a seam between loamy wetland meadows and forested hillsides on one of the most fertile ribbons of soil for pinot noir in the United States. Resulting from an ethic of resourcefulness and honor for the land, Sequitur Winery—which comprises a restored barn, new tasting room, and surrounding additions—accommodates wine production, animal husbandry, crop production and harvesting, living quarters, as well as spaces to entertain, taste wine, and experience a vibrant working farmstead.

At the heart of the transition from dairy farm to winery is the transformation of the historic barn into the vineyard’s primary winemaking space. Constructed in 1937 from Douglas Fir and Cedar trees from the farm, the barn was restored as well as used for inspiration: new buildings replicate its timber structure with wood from trees felled and milled on site.

Adjacent to the historic barn sits the tasting room building, which connects visitors to the landscape and surrounding working spaces. The warm interiors, finished with reclaimed wood from deconstructed farm buildings, create an intimate setting for guests; their calm and quiet contrasts the natural hum of the land and wine production. Seats nestled into window niches, where guests taste wine, link the tasting experience to views of the land that produced it.