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Thick palette-knife strokes build the Napa hillside in late summer, where vine rows climb in long diagonal bands toward a wooded ridge. Amber, dusky green and warm clay are trowelled into sculpted ridges, catching light from the upper left. The pale sky is scraped on in short, loaded horizontals, deepening the cool shadows folded into the slope.