Albi Home 葡萄酒分酒机 by Emanuele Pangrazi is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2023 A' Design Award 银奖 in 家用电器设计 Competition Category.

银家用电器· 2023

Albi Home 葡萄酒分酒机

by Emanuele Pangrazi

Client: Albicchiere

A' Design Award 银奖 Winner in 家用电器 Category

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The Design

About Albi Home 葡萄酒分酒机

Albi Home是一款专为家庭厨房设计的智能葡萄酒分酒机。该电器无需使用气体即可将已开瓶的葡萄酒保鲜长达六个月。智能酒袋(Smart Bag)用于盛装葡萄酒,分酒机通过NFC技术对其进行识别。显示屏可呈现葡萄酒的相关数据,酒液会自动调节至理想的侍酒温度。机身外壳采用ABS材料注塑成型,并进行喷漆表面处理。Albi Home高450毫米,宽200毫米,深250毫米。其紧凑的造型使得倒出单杯葡萄酒成为可能,而不会浪费瓶中剩余的酒液。

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award 银奖

Albi Home 葡萄酒分酒机是 A' Design Award 银奖得主，这是授予顶级、华美而令人印象深刻的设计的极为崇高的认可。银奖得主是极其卓越、极具创造力的作品，展现出其设计师杰出的专业技能、才华与敏锐。预计Albi Home 葡萄酒分酒机将成为一件出色的典范之作，兼具非凡的专业性与深刻的创新性。这件赢得 A' Design Award 银奖的设计是一项备受瞩目、令人钦佩的发明，造福并拓展艺术、科学、设计和技术的边界。Albi Home 葡萄酒分酒机是一件令人羡慕的创作，它唤起渴望，带来积极的情感，并激发惊叹与赞叹。

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