Gartelmann Hunter Estate Winery

The Cellar Door was built in 1997 and awarded a 1999 Lower Hunter Civic Design Award for excellence in the design of smaller scale non-residential development.

The primary objective was for a building that blended well into the local environment, at the same time fulfilling the commercial imperative of being distinctive, memorable and easily identifiable as a retail outlet.

These diverse needs were satisfied by the use of grey Colourbond corrugated sheeting to harmonize with the surrounding gum trees, on a distinctly stylish building with sharply pitched roof and natural timber windows and doors.