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of Texas, Hill Country Wine Cave is, as a
work of architecture, illustrative of Clayton
Korte as an architecture firm, one whose
raft of hospitality projects include a number
of wine-related designs. "To some extent,
the wine cave is the perfect example of
our design ethos in action," says Brian
Korte, FAIA and principal of Clayton Korte,
who headed the project with design team
members Camden Greenlee, AIA and
Associates Josh Nieves, Brandon Tharp,
INE, FROM ITS earliest days, required
the storage of its age, with
solutions both inelegant and
sophisticated. The Egyptians
had mud-bricked and limestone
cellars, the Romans fumitories and cata-
combs, the Italians damigiana. While the
French were one of the first cultures to inten-
tionally dig wine caves for the purpose of
storage, recognizing the crucial precedents
of protecting wine from fluctuating tempera-
ture changes, unwanted vibration, and
harmful ultraviolet light exposure, they were
hardly the last. Architectural firm Clayton
Korte is one of the latest contributors to the
category with its intelligent, highly contextual
Hill Country Wine Cave.
Embedded into a hillside, deep in the heart
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