A cellar that’s as much a conversation piece as the wine it stores – 400 bottles of luxury cuvee wines are contained in a 3m x 6m cement block, extruded from the shop into the public space. The focus: the dramatic angular tunnel and its top-rate gems.

The simplicity and crispness of the surroundings give emphasis to the 10-seater tasting room, which will play host to a series of cosy wine tasting sessions conducted among discerning groups.

Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners have completed the Bodegas Protos winery in Peñafiel, Spain. The winery looks like some big old train stables, it’s fantastic how they have been able to put the entire winery machine park under those wooden roofs.

The 19,450 square metre winery features facilities to ferment, age and bottle 3 million bottles of wine a year. The Bodegas Protos winery is set to be fully operational in October, ready for the 2008 harvest. The winery will be able to handle over 1 Million kilos of grapes a year, and the new buildings are linked via an underground tunnel (cellar) that holds an temperature of 14 -16 °celcius just for the storage of barrels.