The Eighth Master: Art, Architecture, and an Untimely Death

As waves of moist air from the Pacific ocean press inland over California’s coastal range, the climate becomes ideally suited for growing wine grapes. It is hot in the summer, temperate in the winter, and beautiful year-round. The valleys and their flanks are covered with an ever changing veil of grape leaves that slowly turn from green to golden yellow with the coming of the harvest. Pine trees and oaks blanket the upper reaches of the low mountains that cradle world renowned merlots, char...