Oenotecture is a new wine language built on human sensory perception
A new wine language built on human sensory perception
Wine
Wine is a wondrous agro-cultural product of unfathomable variety and complexity. Learning about it is not about perceiving it the “right” way. Your direct experience of wine is your only true access to its entirety. Learning about wine is more about building a navigation system for steering your perception through its universe and communicating the content of your experience. Oenotecture is a new compass for doing exactly that.
The Other Way Around
Now, this is not an ordinary compass – that is to say , not one that calibrates your perception according to a “magnetic north” or a physical constant of wine. Oenotecture calibrates human perception so that it may become the point of reference itself. Something like a Jack Sparrow compass for wine at a fictional sequel of the ‘Pirates of the Caribbean’ series under a title like…say…‘The Curse of the Glass Swirl’…
Synthesis
We humans have an embedded sensory hardware for Taste and Smell, but most importantly, a mind-bogglingly complex software for comparative data assessment and Synthesis called Aesthetics.
What Aesthetics really is under the ‘mmm..that seems nice’ cloak of the human misconception of it, is a ‘one scale to rule them all’ axis around which all of our perceptional worlds can be comparatively measured and synthesised into what we call consciousness.
Now if you’re wondering about what does wine have to do with all that, don’t worry, its perfectly normal.
Aesthetics is an intercultural language that we all understand and communicate with intuitively which equally permeates all types of sensory input systems are no exception. Tweaking this built-in global language a little bit into becoming a tool for understanding and communicating wine rather than having to learn the outsourced scientific model from scratch is the starting point of our project. Simplicity, intuitiveness, an even broader perspective of what wine is and mostly fun is what lies at the other end.
Now, creating a structured Aesthetic language for wine that is both intuitive and functional needs, well…structure! Thus came Architecture.
Architecture
Architecture is the perfect module for systematising aesthetic values as it is the craft that has more than any other sensory craft been subjected to and sculpted by natural law. It is the point where art and mechanics intersect and as we found out, it can be used as an interface for a whole new perceptional engineering system. Choosing Ancient Greek Temple Architecture to be the structural component of our Oenotecture Mechanism was not only due to the fact of it constituting a cornerstone of Global Architecture but mostly because it is in itself a system of human-centric cosmic perception.
Oenotecture
Contrary to the elaboration of this whole idea, its implementation into a system is fairly simple. Breaking down Archetypal Architecture to its structural elements, placing them next to those of Wine and matching common concepts is what does the trick. Don’t take my word for it though. What do you think?
Wine
Wine is a wondrous agro-cultural product of unfathomable variety and complexity. Learning about it is not about perceiving it the “right” way. Your direct experience of wine is your only true access to its entirety. Learning about wine is more about building a navigation system for steering your perception through its universe and communicating the content of your experience. Oenotecture is a new compass for doing exactly that.
The Other Way Around
Now, this is not an ordinary compass – that is to say , not one that calibrates your perception according to a “magnetic north” or a physical constant of wine. Oenotecture calibrates human perception so that it may become the point of reference itself. Something like a Jack Sparrow compass for wine at a fictional sequel of the ‘Pirates of the Caribbean’ series under a title like…say…‘The Curse of the Glass Swirl’…
Synthesis
We humans have an embedded sensory hardware for Taste and Smell, but most importantly, a mind-bogglingly complex software for comparative data assessment and Synthesis called Aesthetics.
What Aesthetics really is under the ‘mmm..that seems nice’ cloak of the human misconception of it, is a ‘one scale to rule them all’ axis around which all of our perceptional worlds can be comparatively measured and synthesised into what we call consciousness.
Now if you’re wondering about what does wine have to do with all that, don’t worry, its perfectly normal.
Aesthetics is an intercultural language that we all understand and communicate with intuitively which equally permeates all types of sensory input systems. Taste and smell are no exception. Tweaking this built-in global language a little bit into becoming a tool for understanding and communicating wine rather than having to learn the outsourced scientific model from scratch is the starting point of our project. Simplicity, intuitiveness, an even broader perspective of what wine is and mostly fun is what lies at the other end.
Now, creating a structured Aesthetic language for wine that is both intuitive and functional needs, well…structure! Thus came Architecture.
Architecture
Architecture is the perfect module for systematising aesthetic values as it is the craft that has more than any other sensory craft been subjected to and sculpted by natural law. It is the point where art and mechanics intersect and as we found out, it can be used as an interface for a whole new perceptional engineering system. Choosing Ancient Greek Temple Architecture to be the structural component of our Oenotecture Mechanism was not only due to the fact of it constituting a cornerstone of Global Architecture but mostly because it is in itself a system of human-centric cosmic perception.
Oenotecture
Contrary to the elaboration of this whole idea, its implementation into a system is fairly simple. Breaking down Archetypal Architecture to its structural elements, placing them next to those of Wine and matching common concepts is what does the trick. Don’t take my word for it though. What do you think?
WINE
DEFINITION
ARCHITECTURE
CO2 upwardly escapes sparkling wine glasses in beautiful cordons of bubbles, being the ultimate contemporary symbol of luxury and wealth.
SPARK
The Anthemion upwardly escapes the structure, reminiscent of and inspired by the Acanthus flower cordons and the Palm leaf, an ancient symbol of wealth.
Alcohol, the volatile nature of which allows it to evaporate into the atmosphere, is the Spirit of Wine.
SPIRIT
The Pediment rises to the top of the structure, “evaporating” the spiritual function of the deities it depicts, outwards.
The Aromatic Profile of a wine is the “Frieze” of smell, portraying a grape variety’s identity through an olfactory narrative of actual aromatics of the natural world.
IDENTITY
The Frieze is an ornamental component of the structure. It depicts elements of culture and of the natural world, portraying the identity of those who have built it.
Tannin reshapes wine by adding an extra structural layer to it. Synaesthetically it can be described as a grid.
GRID
The Coffered Ceiling is an overhead grid that organizes all the elements of the structure, managing to reshape its skeleton.
The Body trait of a wine is the concept of ‘mass contained’.
MASS
The Cella is actually the main body of the structure.
Acidity sharpens the sum of a wine’s traits, taking “weight” off of it and making it appear more structured and elegant. This attribute also renders acidity a balancing factor in food and wine matching context.
TENSION
The column creates optical tension. Its striped stroke body functions as a camouflage for bulk mass, presenting a thinner, lighter and more elegant form, not only of itself, but of the whole structure as well.
Wine Sugars are the raw materials from which, through the alcoholic fermentation transformer, the construct of wine stems from. Different levels of unfermented sugar (Sweetness), will make our 3-step scale system to non-dry wines.
LEVEL
An ancient Greek temple’s Crepidoma is a three step, from nature to structure, transformer. All order produced by human intellect in the form of such an architectural creation, stems from its linking component with the landscape’s raw terrain.
SPARK
CO2 upwardly escapes sparkling wine glasses in beautiful cordons of bubbles, being the ultimate contemporary symbol of luxury and wealth.
The Anthemion upwardly escapes the structure, reminiscent of and inspired by the Acanthus flower cordons and the Palm leaf, an ancient symbol of wealth.
SPIRIT
Alcohol, the volatile nature of which allows it to evaporate into the atmosphere, is the Spirit of Wine.
The Pediment rises to the top of the structure, “evaporating” the spiritual function of the deities it depicts, outwards.
IDENTITY
The Aromatic Profile of a wine is the “Frieze” of smell, portraying a grape variety’s identity through an olfactory narrative of actual aromatics of the natural world.
The Frieze is an ornamental component of the structure. It depicts elements of culture and of the natural world, portraying the identity of those who have built it.
GRID
Tannin reshapes wine by adding an extra structural layer to it. Synaesthetically it can be described as a grid.
The Coffered Ceiling is an overhead grid that organizes all the elements of the structure, managing to reshape its skeleton.
MASS
The Body trait of a wine is the concept of ‘mass contained’.
The Cella is actually the main body of the structure.
TENSION
Acidity sharpens the sum of a wine’s traits, taking “weight” off of it and making it appear more structured and elegant. This attribute also renders acidity a balancing factor in food and wine matching context.
The column creates optical tension. Its striped stroke body functions as a camouflage for bulk mass, presenting a thinner, lighter and more elegant form, not only of itself, but of the whole structure as well.
LEVEL
Wine Sugars are the raw materials from which, through the alcoholic fermentation transformer, the construct of wine stems from. Different levels of unfermented sugar (Sweetness), will make our 3-step scale system to non-dry wines.
An ancient Greek temple’s Crepidoma is a three step, from nature to structure, transformer. All order produced by human intellect in the form of such an architectural creation, stems from its linking component with the landscape’s raw terrain.
The Oenotecture Mechanism
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The Oenotecture Mechanism
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The New Old Wine World of Greece
An 80-page publication offering the most stunning view of the Greek Wine Cosmos through Cultural Lensing !
Epicurus G. sets the controls of Oenology, Architecture, Culture and Philosophy for a journey through Greek Wine’s Space and Time, invents the Oenotecture and TPS mechanisms and narrates through image, text and detailed infographic structures of a highly compact and accessible form.
An 80-page publication offering the most stunning view of the Greek Wine Cosmos through Cultural Lensing !
