Viñedo De Coté

Project Description

Viñedo De Cote, located in Ezequiel Montes, Queretaro, Mexico, presented a challenge to Serrano Monjaraz Arquitectos to find a solution and meet the requirements of the project within a fantastic site of 8 acres, ensuring that visitors could walk through the vineyards, the bottling room and cellar.
The concept was based on optimising the process of making wine, in which gravity is very important, and on taking advantage of the form of the terrain and different levels of the site.
A 19-foot-deep basement was excavated to avoid the use of refrigeration and humidity control systems, taking advantage of the geothermal situation of the excavation and reducing energy consumption. The earth excavated for the basement was used to produce thousands of earth blocks to build a grid of columns measuring 16 x 16 feet, arranged according to the lines of grape vines.