EXCLUSIVE ITALIAN GRAPE HARVEST
Harvesting grapes to make wine is the first step towards the finished bottle, but it is also the busiest time of the year for a winery. Festivals and events focusing around the excitement of the annual grape harvest keep the tradition and anticipation in full bloom.
And a very special
vineyard makes the grape harvest a very special event.
TRENDY BINOMINAL: ARCHITECTUREAND WINE
Antinori Winery /
Archea Associati (source: archdaily) The site is surrounded by the unique hills
of Chianti, covered with vineyards, half-way between Florence
and Siena. A
cultured and illuminated customer has made it possible to pursue, through
architecture, the enhancement of the landscape and the surroundings as expression
of the cultural and social valence of the place where wine is produced.
The purpose of the
project has been to merge the building and the rural landscape; the industrial
complex appears to be a part of the latter thanks to the roof, which has been
turned into a plot of farmland cultivated with vines, interrupted, along the
contour lines, by two horizontal cuts which let light into the interior and
provide those inside the building with a view of the landscape through the
imaginary construction of a diorama.
The materials and
technologies evoke the local tradition with simplicity, coherently expressing
the theme of studied naturalness, both in the use of terracotta and in the
advisability of using the energy produced naturally by the earth to cool and insulate
the winery, creating the ideal climatic conditions for the production of wine.
TUSCANY - Casa vinicola Marchesi
Antinori San Casciano Val di Pesa (Fi) http://www.antinori.it
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Wine and Art, perception by the senses and beauty. Today’s culture
rooted deep in tradition and in the land. Beginning in 2000, the Castello di
Ama per l’Arte Contemporanea project has grown, in collaboration with Galleria
Continua, and now is recognised as high points in contemporary art.
TUSCANY - Castello di Ama - Località Ama - 53013 Gaiole in Chianti (Siena)
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Standing out among the more recent high-quality wineries in Maremma (Tuscany) there is Petra and that is chiefly thanks to its architecture, by Mario Botta.
The marriage if unusual firms comprises a large, pink stone cylinder, divided by an oblique plan that lies parallel to the hill behind and two built-in stairways.
The aim was to create a modern version of a Tuscany country house
TUSCANY - Petra azienda agricola - San Lorenzo Alto 131- Suvereto (LI) -
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VINTAGE WINES IN A “CAVEAU”
This winery produces a limited number of only 50.000 bottles of four
iconic Capannelle wines per year. From every harvest, about 3000 bottles are
kept aside for numerous clients who collect vintage series.
This method is growing and improving with the opening of “The
Caveau" where 8.000 bottles of Capannelle wine's can be stored in
personalized spaces. Many 5 star and boutique hotels, celebrities and
superstars from all over the world store their Capannelle vintage series in
this exclusive wine cellar.
TUSCANY - Soc. Agr. Capannelle
a.r.l. - Località Capannelle, 13 - 53013 Gaiole in Chianti (Siena)
www.capannelle.it
www.capannelle.it
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THE WAVE OF CHANGE
The vineyard, with its extension of more than 100 hectares of entirely organic farming, combining ancient skills and love for the land with the most modern technologies.
The Amastuola Vineyard is a unique example of harmony between production
and aesthetics. The project of the vineyard is based on the design thought by
the known landscape architect Fernando Caruncho, who
designed for the first time the entire agricultural landscape as if it was a
garden and ordered the rows drawing sublime parallel waves extending approximately
3 km, described by himself as “waves of time that traverse this landscape since
antiquity”.
PUGLIA - Via Appia Km 632,200 - 74016 Massafra (TA)
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| WHEN THE LANDSCAPE IS A MASTERPIECE Terraced vineyards above Cinque Terre (the five villages and the National Park, UNESCO World Heritage Site), one of the more memorable viticultural zones of Italy, overlooking the sea. LIGURIA, eastern coast - www.turismoinliguria.it/turismo/en  |
