Some of the world's best architects are reshaping the winery as a bold expression of innovation and tradition, agriculture and technology, production and hospitality. This survey of significant recent work shows how winery buildings serve prodcuers and consumers and give enlightened wine makers an edge in a fiercely competitive market. Featured architects include Santiago Calatrava, Norman Foster, Frank Gehry, Zaha Hadid, Herzog & de Meuron, Steven Holl, Rafael Moneo, Glenn Murcutt, Renzo Piano, and Richard Rogers. Projects are in California and Canada; Spain, Italy and Austria; Chile and Argentina; Australia and New Zealand. Adventurous Wine Architecture will enlighten and inspire the most dedicated oenophile and the casual wine lover, and will transport you to some of the most idyllic places on earth.

Customer Review: Winw itsef is an adventure

The worldwide selection of good wines to-day is so varied and good-tasting that choosing among wines you never met before is like an adventure. Unfortunately many a wineyard owner is courageus enough to make wine which is of a different elk but everything else connected to these new wines is still wearing yesterday's suits and skirts. Why is that? Whatever the answer to that question is, the plain fact is that only a few chais or bodegas taste like the wine made inside. Books like this are good in making people understand what relation there is between the wine and the way its home looks.

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