Chais / Cellars: 40 Renowned Bordeaux Estates (French/English Edition) By Alexis Cottin & Éric Beaumard

The wine cellar are fascinating places, filled with mystery, where a silent transformation and continue. Genuine cathedrals of maturation, they embody an alchemy between raw material and Architectural creation, between technical requirements and aesthetic quest.

In Chais / Cellars: 40 renowned Bordeaux estate wine cellars, , Alexis Cottin, talented photographer, and Éric Beaumard, an exceptional sommelier, invites us to a visual and sensory exploration of 40 iconic Bordeaux wineries. Each cellar reveals a unique identity: some are carved in stone, others designed as genuine Contemporary artworks, all have in common to protect and enhance the wine.

Far from being mere storage places, these exceptional cellars testify to a ancestral know-how and of a artistic vision asserted. Stable temperature, , controlled humidity, , mastered darkness : as many essential conditions for the maturation of wine, brought together in these spaces that are both technical and spiritual.

This large-format book, published by Kehrer, brings together captivating photographs and enlightening texts, in an edition bilingual French-English, accessible to both wine professionals, to the Architects, than to beauty and wine heritage enthusiasts.

A magnificent tribute to thesensory and aesthetic universe of Bordeaux wine, where theOenology rubs shoulders with the Architectural creation, and where each page invites contemplation.

🟨 Item features:

• Type of object : Illustrated book

• Title : Chais / Cellars: 40 renowned Bordeaux estate wine cellars

• Authors : Alexis Cottin & Éric Beaumard

• Editor : Kehrer

• Language : French / English

• Publication date : July 4, 2019

• EAN13 : 9783868289541

• Number of pages : 96

• Dimensions : 24 x 30 cm

• Weight : 901 g

• Format : Connected