Vineyard

Portuguese architectural firm Carlos Castanheira has recently completed this striking eco-tourism destination, with accommodation suites that float above vast grape vines below.

Although we've been hearing about various agricultural robots that are still in development, there's at least one which is already commercially available. It's called the Slopehelper, and it's made mainly for use in vineyards.

Portuguese architectural studios Andreia Garcia Architectural Affairs and Diogo Aguiar Studio have created a clever space-saving guest house. Dubbed Pavilion House, the timber-clad home is built above a pre-existing wine cellar, located amid a stunning vineyard in Guimarães, Portugal.

Wine grape growers need to regularly walk up and down all the rows of vines, continuously stopping to check on the plants themselves and their grapes. It's the sort of thing that it would be nice if a robot could do. A robot like the VineRobot.

L3P Architekten recently managed to successfully shoehorn a rather unusual glass and concrete home home into an awkward little plot in Switzerland. It offers a compelling argument for the use of so-called "undesirable" building plots.

As part of the Grapesort project, Germany’s Fraunhofer Institute for Optronics, System Technologies and Image Exploitation has helped create an automated system that not only gives bum wine grapes the boot, but also divides up the good ones according to quality.

Mauro Turin's bold concept would see a cliff-top wine museum overhang the stepped vineyards on the shores of Lake Geneva.

Located in Mendoza, Argentina amid 6,000 meter Andes, Entre Cielos is home to a tree-hotel prototype.

Italian sculptor Arnaldo Pomodoro has constructed his first-ever architectural sculpture in Umbria.

Horribly non-traditional but scientifically very sound, N2Wine's "wine globes" keep fine wines at the perfect temperature for serving by the glass - and keeps the wine "eternally mature" by eliminating the negative effects of oxygen exposure.

November 24, 2008 Two years ago we wrote quite bullishly about the impending launch from a Silicon Valley start-up producing US$4500 domestic devices for artisan winemaking and we’re pleased to report that WinePod has since won countless