Marlborough
Vintners Winery

Marlborough Vintners Winery

Marlborough
Vintners Winery

Marlborough Vintners Winery provides contract winemaking services which combine cutting-edge technology with an emphasis on sustainable practices.

The new 376m2 (GFA) winery provides space for a cellar-door experience for eight to 10 vineyards, as well as a restaurant, brewery, tap room, laboratories, and offices along with private dining and conference facilities.

The design needed to reflect the industrial and mechanical processes associated with the commercial wine-making, and link these back to the earth that is its source.

Use of natural materials and sustainable design principles were emphasised throughout, with low carbon mass timber used extensively.

Marlborough Vintners Winery

A palette of industrial and natural materials is used throughout the interior. The large, open restaurant features Himalayan cedar panelling from timber felled on the owner’s property.

Marlborough Vintners Winery

Sheet boarding is finished with paint incorporating iron filings to produce a rusted earth effect. Tables are made from live-edge flitches of gum.

Marlborough Vintners Winery

Utilising LVL portals, and prefabricated mass-timber roof, wall and floor panels, the building was largely made off-site as pre-assembled modules and craned into place.

Marlborough Vintners Winery

Externally, landscaping draws from the surrounding land, with curves formed in Corten steel referencing the braided rivers that have run through the area in the past.

Marlborough Vintners Winery

Temperature is regulated through thermal gain and underfloor heating of the concrete slab, with cross ventilation and overhangs for shading in hotter months.

Marlborough Vintners Winery

Client: Marlborough Vintners

Location: Blenheim

Status: Completed 2022

Sam van Zoelen, JTB Architects

Sam van Zoelen

Architect

Christchurch

Diana Shchukin

Associate Interior Designer

Nelson