Bodega Vina Real, architect Philippe Mazieres

We continue our virtual architecture and wine journey.
We’re still in the Rioja, the famous wine-making province of Spain, explore a little snout of the planet, a remarkable concentration of non-standard new, avant-garde from an architectural point of view of wineries. Here, in the town LaGuardia, we’ve already seen a masterpiece of modern architecture – Bodega Isios architect Santiago Calatrava. But this is not the only attraction LaGuardia. The second mandatory for inspection destination – straddling a tall hill very unusual Bodega Vina Real, designed by French architect Philippe Mazieres.


Vina Real winery

The complex is located on the slope of the natural elevation of the area, the main structure of the shape of a fermentation vat, it is the same – there is fermentation, with modern equipment:

Bottom – Cellar, part of which is visible through the glass floor in the center of the room. Greet space purely productive interior looks like an art installation, designed to impress the wine tourist in the heart:

To the main barrel construction of two adjacent parallelepiped – there are rooms for mature wines, they are built on over two long tunnels drilled in the rock relief elevations, in which is inscribed, and the full range of wineries.

In 2004, construction was awarded Best of Wine Tourism – for architecture. The jury appreciated the lapidary style of simple geometric forms winery. Professionals can easily see them refer to the graphic work of Russian Constructivists and Suprematists early 20 century. Circles and rectangles in the style of the late Kandinsky or Leonidova – this song brilliantly inscribed Mazières the local hills and vineyards. You will fly by – appreciate, it is best called the observer with a bird’s flight.

Wine tourists

Bodega Viña Real is located in Laguardia, Rioja, Spain. Auto route “Bilbao-Rioja, including LaGuardia – see here . All information about Bodega, its history, ownership, production, architecture, etc. can be found on the site management . About the wine tours in the economy can be found on page “visit” . They will also be pre-acquainted with wine bodegas , and when you visit them you can taste and buy.

Bonus: Architect-winemaker Philippe Mazieres

The project is carried out in 1991 by a Frenchman, the architect Philippe Mazieres (Philippe Mazieres), who had by that time had a great experience prizvodstvennyh reconstructions wineries in their homeland. Before that he worked with the French Chateau Margaux and Chateau d’Yquem .

Philippe Mazieres – unusual architect, the winery – his specialty, which grew out of his hobby. He often acknowledges in an interview that good wine has always been his passion. Given that he hails from Bordeaux , it would be strange otherwise. He was impressed by the new enthusiasm for the Spaniards – to clothe their new reconstructed winery in the avant-garde architectural forms. And he regrets that France reconstruction mainly concerns the only process. Wine France is not so daring in the sense of architectural innovations, such as Spain.

Such a situation would never suit so constructively minded wine lovers, and the architect decided to move the Spanish passion for architectural innovation in the native soil – and his wife recently decided to purchase your own chateau in Saint Emilion.

t the Chateau Philippe Mazieres accept a limited number of the first wine tourists. However, the Reception will significantly expand that undoubtedly will require striking architectural decisions – Chateau now being reconstructed in the style demonstrated by Mazieres at Bodega Vina Real.

In addition to the vineyards and architecture for the authorship of the owner of this estate wine tourists can taste the wine and the first harvests Philippe Mazieres:

Philippe Mazières in Russia

We Philippe Mazières too well known – he is the author of the reconstruction Chateau Le Grand Vostock , which ended in 2003. Our winemakers now also have new facilities and new architecture. Mazières applied the same technique – accentuated as the main facilities of the complex fermentation cylindrical shape. The bright red color of other buildings of the complex – bodryasche avant-garde and revolutionary in the architectural sense, of course, even though our backgrounds is difficult to get rid of historical associations, and the French architect probably had in mind, the more so over the whole complex of higher its observation tower in the form of the Kremlin Turret: