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This winery does not seek a sense of belonging through imitation of tradition. Its architecture grows from the nature of wine itself — from the relationship between earth, time, a controlled process and the moment when it is finally revealed. The building is shaped as terrain translated into architecture: its sloping planes follow the hillside, descend toward the landscape and make the large mass appear not placed upon the ground, but almost grown from it.

The distinction between programmes is clearly written into the form. A tall, more enclosed volume contains production, storage and working spaces, while lower volumes for reception, business meetings and tasting extend from it.

Toward these spaces, the monolithic shell gradually opens, revealing wine, light and human presence through deep, precisely cut openings.

Fair-faced concrete gives the building calmness, weight and a sense of permanence, while patinated metal introduces the warmth of a material that changes and matures together with the architecture. Dark timber and glass soften their rawness, especially in the tasting space, where the building approaches a human scale. In the damp autumn landscape, with warm light breaking through the heavy façade, the winery reads at once as a production building, a house in the woods and a quiet place devoted to the ritual of wine.