Wine Cellar Architectural Designs & Advance Technology
Wine Cellars are now taking the advancement in technology which enables modern architecture to take place in the scene in 2016. The new designs today mimic the power of mother nature in the field of wine making.
The potential area to store wines is in places where moisture and cool temperature takes control. However, wine cellars are equipped with the modern day age advance technology where its architectural design firmly outskirt traditional storage and takes a new design that further utilizes areas impossible to store wines in the past.
Wine Spectator Editor James Molesworth said on CNN Style, "Today, putting a wine cellar in your 33rd-floor apartment is just as easy as in an underground cellar. For me, the key is combining both visual eye candy with actual practicality and efficiency," referring to Château Cheval Blanc, Bordeaux.
Château Cheval Blanc, found on a hilltop of the French Countryside shows White Façade roof designed by Christian de Portzamparc. The avant-garde wine cellar stretches 19,685 square-feet which rivulets natural light transversely crafted inlined rows of solid white vats. Molesworth says, "All the vats are cement and pear-shaped, corresponding to parcel sizes on the vineyard.
The precision design of the Crown Wine Cellars in Hong Kong located in Shouson Hill is another unconventional architectural design buried 60-feet below the ground. This concrete entry cellar was formerly a military bunker covers 1,000-square-foot chambers with 3-foot thick walls.
This wine cellar's technology is a state-of-the-art climate-control and great interior but definitely looks rugged from the outside. It contains little to no light with 50-55 degrees Fahrenheit and specifically consists of 70% humidity.
"Ideally, wine should be stored in a dark space as ultraviolet light destroys wine, hence colored glass bottles. And wine should be kept lying still at a perfectly horizontal angle," says Sotheby Wine Specialist Adam Bilbey. He explains all wine cellars should have the exact elements in producing first-grade wines.