Article source: Sunil Patil & Associates

Wine making has been around for thousands of years. Nature provides everything that is needed to make wine, it is up to humans to embellish and improve it. Thus our Client who is from Italy and his counterpart in India wanted to have wine making unit at Akluj, Solapur so that they could produce one of the finest wines.

Five basic steps are involved in making wine: harvesting, crushing, fermentation, clarification, and aging and bottling. The unit has all; the client already had a huge vineyard spread in the premises. The brief was to have a plant with tank hall with a capacity of 9 lakh liters, processing units, bottling plant, cellar for storing the wines and admin block with wine testing lab.

Crushing, fermentation and filtration units have been created in the plant and adjacent to it, is the admin block. Buffer space has been given between the two buildings.

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• Architects: Sunil Patil & Associates
• Project: Fratelli Wines Industrial Project
• Location: Akluj, Solapur, Maharastra, India
• Client: Fratelli Wines Pvt Ltd
• Design Team: Ar.Sunil Patil
• Contractors: Modern Pre Fab
• Built-up Area: 2468.42 sq mt
• Construction Time: 1 year 11 months.
• Year of Completion: Dec 2009

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