page_title: Jan Shrem
section_title: Clos Pegase Winery
hierarchical_section_title: Jan Shrem / Clos Pegase Winery
caption_attribution_description: Clos Pegase Winery, Dunaweal Lane, Calistoga, Napa Valley, California
context_page_description: Jan Isaac Shrem is an American book distributor and publisher, winery owner, art collector and philanthropist.
context_section_description: After retiring from the publishing business, Shrem relocated to the Napa Valley,  where he established Clos Pegase Winery in 1983. In cooperation with the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, he conducted an architectural design competition for a winery building. Out of 96 entries, the winner was Michael Graves, who would design the postmodern Clos Pegase Winery building,  which opened in 1987.
  In the Washington Post in 1988, James Conaway said that "Clos Pegase is our first monument to wine as art." It was later described by architecture critic Susan Dinkelspiel Cerny as "an interpretation of Classicism in ochre and burnt sienna, with a spare desert feeling."
  Shrem is well known for delivering a humorous lecture on the 4000 year history of wine as seen through art. He calls his presentation "Bacchus the Rascal: A Bacchanalian History of Wine Seen Through 4000 Years of Art".
  Shrem married Maria Manetti Farrow in 2012. He sold Clos Pegase to Leslie Rudd's Vintage Wine Estates in 2013, when he was 83 years old.
caption: Clos Pegase Winery
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