Rocky Pond Winery Tasting Room Chelan, Washington Wine-Making Architecture
Rocky Pond Winery Tasting Room in Chelan
Contemporary Architecture in WA, USA – design by SkB Architects
Oct 3, 2017
Rocky Pond Winery Tasting Room
Design: SkB Architects
Location: Chelan, Washington, USA
Rocky Pond Winery Tasting Room in Chelan, Washington
Photos: Benjamin Benschneider
Located in downtown Chelan, Rocky Pond Winery is designed to bring a heightened sense of awareness to the winery?s story and their wines. The 2,000-square-foot tasting room serves as a sophisticated venue in which to relax and celebrate the experience of wine, while staying true to the humble, agricultural surroundings of the area.

Reworking a speculative retail space, the existing facade was transformed via a new, fully openable storefront system, merging a small, semi-enclosed exterior patio with the inside.
The owners? interest in focusing on the experience of wine finds its expression in the casual seating arrangements, and the subtle, natural materials and hues used to build out the space. Defining the space is the forty-foot-long, custom-fabricated, pewter-topped tasting bar, which is set atop a whitewashed pine base.

Opposite the bar, a forty-foot-long art piece designed by the architects merges cartographic imagery of Burgundy with photographic imagery of Rocky Pond vineyards. The piece serves as an homage to the owners? wine tasting bike trip through France that served as the inspiration for the win...