CUBE ROUTE

D’arenberg Cube, South Australia

The d’arenberg Cube, a five-storey visitor centre, cellar door and restaurant, rises like an outsized Rubik’s Cube from a vineyard in South Australia’s Mclaren Vale, and has been a long-held dream for chief winemaker Chester Osborn. ‘I built the model for this 14 years ago,’ he says. ‘It looks exactly the same, except the model was half a metre tall, in a tiny vineyard with little soldiers…i wanted to use an iconic puzzle, because wine is such a puzzle to work out.’ Don’t expect a standard cellar door experience from the Cube, created with Nic Salvati of ADS Architects. ‘There will be a lot of interactive wine experiences, including full surround video, augmented reality and aroma containers to play around with,’ says Osborn. Carrie Hutchinson D’arenberg , Osborn Road, Mclaren Vale, tel: 61.8 8329 4822, darenberg.com.au