For the past two years, the Michelin-starred restaurant and hotel has also been dry-farming Merlot on the front slope of the Victorian-era mansion. [...] the vintage attractions here are the elegantly restored and repurposed mansion, built by an affluent San Franciscan in the early 1880s, and the acclaimed cuisine of chef Jesse Mallgren. The veranda on the main house — home to the restaurant and eight of the 19 accommodations — faces east, with a spectacular vista over vineyards toward Fitch Mountain and Mount St.