Bordeaux – the best place to create such a museum, like Cité du Vin : winemaking is engaged in since the days of ancient Rome, and the number of bottles produced annually by local farms, hundreds of millions. Cité du Vin or «Wine City» , advance nicknamed “Wine Guggenheim” by analogy with the famous New York Museum of Modern Art, situated in a futuristic building on the banks of the Garonne River. This is not the underground storage of dusty bottles on racks. Cité du Vin – this is a large-scale multi-media center with a tasting area, classrooms for workshops and thematic evenings, as well as an impressive space for temporary exhibitions. On the creation of the museum it took seven years, and its cost according to the agency Bloomberg was $ 81 million. For the design of the building, which the media had time to compare and cow horn, and with a burgundy jet flowing along the walls of glass, meet the Parisian architectural firm XTU
to acquaint visitors with the history and culture of the noble drink and make Cité du Vin in the largest wine center of the world -. are the two main objectives its creators. Journey into the universe wine museum offers help implement 20 multimedia installations. It begins with a virtual tour of the wineries in different parts of the world, filmed on video from a helicopter. Types Australia Plains or the United States replaced the hilly terrain of France, so that visitors can get a complete picture of the conditions in which growing grapes on five continents.
Installing the «Table terroirs» , such as to help visitors understand what is terroir. A video interview recording with the representatives of 10 renowned wine regions, such as Mosel, Barossa Valley and La Rioja – how environmental conditions affect wine properties
Another interesting installation E-Vine is dedicated to grapes. She stylized vine to which are attached the plates. With their help, visitors can learn from what varieties are produced or that wine, and what challenges manufacturers face, growing certain varieties of grapes
«Wine portraits» -. This section devoted to different families of wines: white, red, pink, fortified, sparkling, and methods for their production and bottling. Installation «Wine on the water» is about the ancient method of carrying the noble drink – on the rivers and seas. «Gallery of civilizations» tells the story of the role of wine in the life of different cultures and eras, from the Egyptians and Romans to the Americans since “dry law»
Installing the «Buffet five. feelings » – excursion into the notes of the world are present in the wine. Aromas of berries, flowers or a tree served in special vessels. Another stage of immersion in the world of wine visitors did with its famous fans: in a feature film about the ancient beverage reason historical figures, among them Voltaire, Napoleon and Winston Churchill
The Cité du Vin there is even «chair of despair», dedicated hangover. On condition familiar to every fan of excessive libations, tell sinned misuse of artists and poets – hear them offered in solitude, sitting in a huge chair
Meet with wine, in practice, can be in the zone of «Belvedere» on the eighth floor of the museum. In addition to the panoramic viewing platform here is the tasting area, which presents 20 wines from countries and regions cooperating with the Cité du Vin . The cost of the tasting is included in the ticket price in the «Wine City» – € 20. For those who want to try the French cuisine to the accompaniment of various grades of noble drink, the restaurant is open Le 7 on the seventh floor of the museum. However, to intercept a glass of white or red as possible and on the run – in the wine bar Latitude20 on the first floor
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in the main exhibition all interesting in Cité du Vin not the end: in particular, until January of the following year it opened a temporary exhibition « Carte Blanche» Isabelle Rozenbaum, whose images give a complete picture of who and how to build a «wine City» . In June, the auditors will carry out the broadcast Euro 2016 matches, and football viewing can be combined with the drinking of a noble beverage. Museum program includes even workshops for children, which will tell the story of the wine with the help of amusing figures from wine corks. In short, in the Cité du Vin there is something for everyone – and this place is worth it to plan a summer visit to Bordeaux.
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