PL-T Architecture   China   In the small Tibetan village of Quzkika, in Markam County, this enological complex with a gross built area of 8,334 square meters is embedded into terraces. At the foot of Dameiyong Snow Mountain, near Lancang River, the winery blends into the natura

Olson Kundig   Canada   Located in Jagged Rock Vineyard in Oliver, British Columbia, the heart of Canada’s winemaking region, the Red Barn Winery stands out amid rows of vines and rock formations because of its distinctive red tone, which serves as a beacon. The object was

Foster + Partners   Spain   Norman Foster was commissioned to renovate and enlarge the Bodegas Faustino winery in Oyón, in the comarca of Rioja Alavesa. Years after his collaboration with Bodega Portia in Gumiel de Izán (Burgos), which opened in 2010, this project for the Martí

Rojkind Arquitectos Amasa Estudio   Mexico   The Guadalupe Valley is a winemaking region located in Ensenada, in the Mexican state of Baja California. Here, within the Banyan Tree Veya hotel complex, the Pictograma winery presents twelve radial walls and 22 vaults arranged around a central cour

K-Studio   Greece   Liknon is a new space dedicated to Metaxa, a Greek liquor made since 1888 in the distillery founded by Spyros Metaxas. The center is located in a 100-year-old vineyard on the island of Samos. The Muscat grapevines spread beneath the town of Vourliote

Herzog & de Meuron   France   Combining spaces for production and promotional activities, the viticulture facilities of a historic estate seek to formally and conceptually blend into a World Heritage Site. Much like the product embodies the vineyards’ mineral and climatic charact

IDOM   Spain   The rioja alta has the ideal climatic, geological, and topographic conditions for winemaking. Though its production dates back to ancient times, the arrival of the railroad in the 19th century and the interest of French winemakers in the excellent lo

RCR Arquitectes   Spain   As a result of the close collaboration between the architects and the owners – the Suqué-Mateu family –, the project to build the new winery, by fields of vineyards and a country estate, started to take shape a decade ago. The relationship with the l

Carme Pinós   Spain   Construction work on the extension of the Bodegas La Horra facilities, in the Ribera del Duero comarca of Burgos province, has begun. Integrated between hills crowned by pines, marjorams, lavender, and rockroses, the half-buried new winery boasts a

Foster + Partners   Spain   A scheme drawn up by Norman Foster for the company Familia Martínez Zabala – which runs six wineries: Faustino, Campillo, Portia, Marqués de Vitoria, Valcarlos, Condesa de Leganza – has been unveiled. He previously carried out a design for Bodegas Po

Sergio Martín Blas Gabriel Carrascal Aguirre   Spain   The project for the Amador Vineyards transforms the ruins of one of few winery-houses still standing in the center of the village of Cacabelos, a municipality in León province along which the French Way of St. James passes. The new program comprises

Lina Ghotmeh   France   The design of the winery emerges as an expression of an attachment to the dark Anjou stone of the site’s ground; to the fragility of the Bel Argus butterfly, a species native to the area; and to the immersive emotional experience of visiting the site

Neri & Hu Design and Research Office   China   A leading producer of spirits has opened its first distillery on Chinese soil, set in a beautiful landscape with views of Mount Emei, one of the four sacred spots of Buddhism.

Barozzi Veiga   Italy   The project is the outcome of a private commission of Guerrieri Rizzardi – a family-owned estate producer of wine and olive oil. The client asked for an extension of their current winery, along with a museum, a small auditorium, a point of sale, and

Foster + Partners   France   The design unveiled by the British architect Norman Foster shows a desire for it to respectfully blend in with the gently rolling hills around. The tarracotta-tiled vaulted roof presents a timber structure with a 40-meter...

Harquitectes   Spain   In the historic center of Gratallops, a municipality of Tarragona province, amid narrow streets and houses between party walls, a winery with a built area of 1,289 square meters adapts to its L-shaped plot. With walls as thick as 1.75 meters at most,

Carl Fredrik Svenstedt Architect   France   The main undulating wall, of 7x 80m, is built with blocks of local sandstone carved by a robot, post-tensioned to the foundations and bonded horizontally using stainless steel cables. The blocks are mounted traditionally by a team of stonemasons...

Canals Moneo Arquitectos Rafael Moneo   Spain   With over three centuries of history, Bodegues Ribas is the oldest winery on the island of Mallorca. Since its foundation in 1711, its wines have been produced in Ca’n Ribas – an 18th-century manor house kept intact to date – and the lands around it,

Foster + Partners   France   Known for the eponymous wine it produces, the territory of the Jurisdiction of Saint-Émilion – composed of eight villages and their vineyards – was listed as a World Heritage Site by UNESCO, as a cultural landscape. The design unveiled by the British

Carl Fredrik Svenstedt   France   The Paris firm headed by Carl Fredrik Svenstedt (Stockholm, 1967) designed this winery of petrous facades, made of blocks weighing a ton each, for the Château de Selle estate in Taradeau, in France’s Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur region. Extracted from

José María Sánchez García   Switzerland   The project intervenes in the landscape by restructuring the estate with vineyards and green terraces; restoring Villa Cristina through the recovery of the old vaults after eliminating the false ceilings and creating partitions with furniture; and ex

Rafael Moneo Valerio Canals Clara Moneo   Spain   The Descendientes de J. Palacios Winery was located in the town of Villafranca del Bierzo. Its facilities were spread in different structures and warehouses, so it became necessary to reconfigure and gather them all in one building. The desire to ble

Jorge Vidal Víctor Rahola   Spain   The construction of a winery and the winemaking process are closely attached to an experience with the land. Wine is the aroma, color, taste, body, and essence of the grape. This combination of senses and perceptions needs to be accompanied by a plac

Ever since people began to live in cities, conserving surplus food – whether as grain or as wine – has been one of the fundamental tasks of society, and this is likely to turn wineries – overriding the snobberies that nowadays want to make them sophi

Paul Goldberger   One associates Norman Foster with elegance and finesse, which in one sense would seem to make the decision by the proprietors of Château Margaux, one of the most revered wines in the world, to retain Foster + Partners seem altogether natural, a match

Located in a small town in Palencia, the El Castillo Winery is an unfinished project. It is so, at least, because time has been essential in this case, not only because of the way in which the project intervenes in a centennial winery, but also becau

Encaramada a un cerro sobre el río Duero, no lejos de Burgos, Roa alberga desde 1991 la sede del Consejo Regulador de la Denominación de Origen de la Ribera del Duero, que acaba de ampliarse con un edificio diseñado por el estudio barcelonés Barozzi

El universo del vino acoge a una nueva estrella. Concebida para aprovechar las ventajas de la topografía, la bodega que Norman Foster ha diseñado para el Grupo Faustino se estructura en tres alas programáticas semienterradas cuyas cubiertas transitab

El estudio de Rogers Stirk Harbour ha concluido la ampliación de las bodegas Protos en Peñafiel. Realizado junto al equipo Alonso y Balaguer, el volumen de cinco bóvedas parabólicas se proponía satisfacer las demandas del cliente de construir un edif

Luis Fernández-Galiano   The Swiss Jacques Herzog & Pierre de Meuron have built a Californian winery for the prestigious Bordeaux viticulturist Christian Moueix.