A visit to the wine art gallery at Jessup Cellars is a dynamic sensory experience you won’t forget. The gallery is a part of our Tasting Room and is decorated with hand-crafted wines and curated artwork by regional artists in a relaxed, intimate setting. In the Wine Gallery, resident artists are rotated every few months, which makes our Tasting Room a hub of new perspectives and diverse mediums throughout the year.
Our visitors are encouraged to engage with the art at their own pace, just as they would a flight of wine. Some may spend a while simply smelling the differences in their wine flight, while others might leave a little left in each glass to return to later, only to find new aromas that weren’t apparent before. In this way, you’re encouraged to weave through the wine art gallery and return to the things that catch your eye.
Penelope Moore: Our current resident artist
Our current resident artist, Penelope Moore, is an abstract expressionist with ties to Napa Valley and Savannah, Georgia. With roots in the food and wine industry, Moore’s current exhibit incorporates her synesthesia—a unique ability to visualize taste as colors and patterns—with bold colors and composition. The viewer is invited into her world of vibrant emotion and connection, adding another dimension to the sensory experience of taste and smell.
Moore was inspired to bridge the gap between the visual world and wine when bartending as a student at the Academy of Art University in San Francisco. Occasionally, she would attend classes that took her to Napa Valley to paint the vineyards and always made time to taste the wines.
Her expressive oil paintings invite guests to consider the connection between art, gastronomy, and wine.
What it’s like to walk through the wine art gallery
You might choose to do a guided tasting of wine and small bites before walking through the gallery, or you might select a glass of hand-crafted wine to hold, allowing it to open as you move from painting to painting.
Our Tasting Room is designed to celebrate the intersection of wine and art. Both wine and art evoke emotion, memory, and feeling, and allow us to engage in conversations about the human experience and the natural world. Most importantly, both are a part of what makes life enjoyable.
Originally Posted 8/8/2024 | Updated 11/27/24