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Preface From the berries on the grapevine to that moment of enjoyment in the glass, wine is a living entity. And in its adventure captivating wine lovers from around the world, the last stop, the final place of rest before wine is consumed with passion and enthusiasm, is the wine cellar.

Focus Wine Cellars (FWC) is an international expert company providing leading-edge wine cellar design, production and installation. Wine cellars designed and manufactured by FWC are recognised by national and international authorities as outstanding examples of perfection. They are aesthetic spaces providing the ideal preservation conditions that precious wines deserve. In this book, for the sake of a better understanding of the delicacies of wine preservation, we are delighted to have the opportunity to present the details of some of these works of art to a larger public. This book features...

Wine Preservation Wine is delicate; maximizing its potential and accentuating its subtle aromas requires special care and attention... Through its scents, colors and aromas, clues to the life story of a wine can be found. The age of a wine, the variety of grapes and the conditions of growth can be identified by tasting a glass of wine; it is also possible to tell whether the wine was preserved properly or not. Special care in preservation is essential for perfect maturation and the unfolding of rich bouquets. Over the centuries, wine culture and production methods have undergone numerous changes....

Criteria, Process, Project The adventure of owning a wine cellar starts by meeting the design team. During this meeting, all essential criteria for the cellar’s design are determined in the light of a variety of factors including the designated location for the cellar, the wine purchase habits and the consumption frequency it is to service. After evaluation of these specific requirements, the process of computer-aided design and planning is followed by the production phase including critically significant insulation. The entire process of application is completed with the installation of equipment,...

ivan Istanbul Hotel’s cellar has some unique features, one of which is especially noteworthy. This massive 2,000-bottle wine cellar was originally planned as a long term storage space, on top of the bar, with access through the hotel’s central staircase. For daily use, two vertical extensions were added down towards the bar to allow access to the bottles from the ground floor. With the help of an innovative air circulation system, the conditioned air inside the wine cellar circulates between the ground floor and the first floor. Design: Criteria, Process, Project Design: Criteria, Process, Project...

The bar is ‘hooded’ by the wine cellar and this idea is reflected in the design as a U-shaped, 7-metre-high glass cellar façade clad with wine bottles. A true edifice for wine culture. Design: Criteria, Process, Project

his level of detailing and materialisation is the result of meticulous research efforts, and their cohesion is achieved by using advanced (2D and 3D) design tools. To attain rooms designed not only for preserving wines correctly, but as rooms which are also prestigious spaces, designers at FWC put many hours of work into determining the right place for every single bottle and every ornament on the floor, walls and ceiling. The drawings on these two pages are of an expansive wine cellar and its degustation area, belonging to a Head of State, which was still in design and development stage during...

WC’s wine cellar built on a rocky cliff facing the gorgeous views of the Bosphorus seaway in Istanbul, Turkey was an inspiration to the interior designers of Cave Bar of Dubai Conrad Hotel. They conceived the bar as an authentic wine cave with crude walls, dramatic lighting and all walls covered with wine bottles. Focus Wine Cellars designed the wine cellar area as a tasting room large enough to accommodate bigger groups, which is embraced by fully transparent wine storage. The horizontally aligned wavy strips of light and alternating hoards of wine on rugged timber logs give the impression of...

fter considerable success at the Sheraton Hotel Ataköy Istanbul, FWC was approached to realise another wine cellar for the Sheraton Hotel Maslak Istanbul. In this instance, the space reserved for the wine cellar was large enough to be divided into two compartments each with a different temperature setting. Though the preservation conditions for all wines are the same, and they are usually kept together in one cellar, creating separate compartments with different climate conditions can sometimes have its own operational advantages. With a standard one-compartment cellar, white wines need to be...

n accepted opinion on wine cellars is that they occupy too much space, and this is often the argument for smaller restaurants to choose wine cabinets, or to ignore the idea of specialised storage altogether. In reality, a wine cabinet is hardly an equivalent replacement for a proper walk-in wine cellar; the fact is that the thermal mass inside a wine cellar is always incomparably higher than that of a wine cabinet, and this in turn effects crucial temperature stability. Temperature stability is not obtainable in wine cabinets as successfully as in walk-in wine cellars. The ambition at FWC is...

his wine cellar in Akhisar is an example of traditional wine cellar architecture with wooden wine storage units and rustic finishes. However, the traditional open wooden racking system differentiates itself from others by its exquisite wood workmanship and thoughtful detailing. Furthermore, in line with the owners’ aesthetic preferences, the space is decorated with unique works of art and materials. Cotto tablets with hand painted grape illustrations and artistic glass etchings of grape leaves are just two of the highlights. One of the most important features that make this a unique wine cellar...