Albi Home Vindispenser by Emanuele Pangrazi

Albi Home Vindispenser by Emanuele Pangrazi is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2023 A' Design Award i Sølv in Husholdningsapparater Design Competition Category.

SølvHusholdningsapparat· 2023

Albi Home Vindispenser

by Emanuele Pangrazi

Client: Albicchiere

A' Design Award i Sølv Winner in Husholdningsapparat Category

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The Design

About Albi Home Vindispenser

Albi Home er en smart vindispenser designet til private køkkener. Apparatet bevarer åbnet vin i op til seks måneder uden brug af gas. En Smart Bag indeholder vinen og genkendes af dispenseren via NFC-teknologi. Displayet viser vindata, og vinen bringes automatisk til den ideelle serveringstemperatur. Det ydre kabinet er fremstillet af ABS ved sprøjtestøbning og har en malet overfladefinish. Albi Home måler 450 mm i højden, 200 mm i bredden og 250 mm i dybden. Den kompakte form gør det muligt at servere et enkelt glas uden at spilde resten af flasken.

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award i Sølv

Albi Home Vindispenser er vinder af A' Design Award i Sølv, en usædvanligt prestigefyldt anerkendelse, der tildeles designs i topklasse, som er pragtfulde og imponerende. Sølvvinderne er enormt geniale og overordentlig kreative værker, der illustrerer deres designeres fremragende ekspertise, talent og skarpsindighed. Albi Home Vindispenser forventes at være et vidunderligt udstillingsværk, der er bemærkelsesværdigt professionelt og dybt innovativt. Dette design, der har vundet A' Design Award i Sølv, er en højst bemærkelsesværdig, beundret opfindelse, som gavner og flytter grænserne for kunst, videnskab, design og teknologi. Albi Home Vindispenser er en skabelse, som mange misunder, og som vækker begær, bringer positive følelser og antænder forundring og undren.

Behind the Design

Press Kit

Credits, team members and technical details provided by the designer.

Unique Properties: This product represents the all-in-one solution that allows you to drink your wine at the right temperature every time as if it were just opened. Once you uncork the bottle, your wine starts losing its flavor and aroma. This is due to oxidation. As a result, you throw away the bottle with the leftover wine, which is already past its best. Albi uses a proprietary technology to preserve the wine for up to 6 months after uncorking the bottle. This is 8x longer than any other existing technologies.
Dimensions & Packaging: Height: 450 mm; Width: 200 mm; Depth: 250 mm.
Tags: Wine Dispenser, Smart Home Appliances, IoT, Wine Preservation, Wine Tasting
Production Technology: The exterior body of the dispenser will be made of ABS by injection molding. A surface finish will be applied to the plastic material shells through a painting process, according to a color scale able to enhance the product aesthetic.
Design Challenge: When the first prototype was ready, it immediately clears what the risk was, that is, making another bulky box. At this point, allowing the ergonomic and the user's experience to speak for themselves, a shape was modelled to find the right balance between technology, usability, and elegant appearance.
Research: Research with real interviews with stakeholders was conducted. We collected ideas, impressions, desires, and we found the latent need that we needed, how to preserve wine over time after opening the bottle. We wanted to be focused on the development of one unprecedented technical and aesthetic solution. We developed styling templates together with the engineers who were developing the interior components and managed to build a single, sleek body.
Inspiration: Albi was born thanks to a Design Thinking approach. Creative research is at the basis of the idea and has been the engine of all subsequent phases. We designed a system, not just a physical product, capable of providing key solutions for the business model as well. The solution was conceived starting from an accurate analysis of the latent needs of wine consumers. It has happened to each of us to desist from tasting a glass of good wine, for fear to waste the rest. Albi is the solution...
Project Duration: The beginning of the development work of the idea dates back to 2018, between Foligno and Terni, in Umbria Region. In the following years mechanical prototypes and some tests relating to design have been developed. The first 3000 definitive items will be released in June 2023.
Operation Flow: Albi Home is a smart kitchen appliance that makes it possible to taste every wine at the ideal temperature and preserve them for up to 6 months from the first opening, without using any gas.
By inserting a Smart Bag containing the wine, the dispenser will recognize which wine it is using NFC technology. It will show on its display the wine data and automatically bring it to the perfect serving temperature.
Patents: Patent Granted: FLUID DISPENSER IT 102018000002421; US 11,535,505; CN 111670157 B
Design Registration EUIPO N. 004681831-0001 del 30/01/2018