04/09/2026
When 800 cubic metres of solid granite is blasted out of a Ballandean hillside for w**e to sit in a temperature controlled environment... the result is impressive.
Twenty-five metres deep. Room for 250 barrels. Cool all year round without a single air conditioner, because that is what a granite hillside does.
C Consulting Group did the structural engineering for Meteora Vineyard's w**e cave, the cellar door sitting above it, the retaining walls and the curved stairs - and the trade-waste hydraulic design.
The cellar door is the part people photograph. Feature steelwork, tilt-up concrete panels, timber detailing and the foundation and slab design behind those polished floors, all resolved into one building. That coordination is invisible when you are standing there with a glass in your hand, which is exactly how it should be.
None of it happens without good trades. Builder Brubuild Pty Ltd, steel fabrication by Topfab Design & Fabrication, concrete by Webb Concreting, and every other contractor who worked on it.
Congratulations to the whole Meteora Vineyard team. It is a serious piece of work and a serious addition to the Granite Belt.
Been out to Ballandean yet? Tell us what you thought - or tag whoever you are dragging along.
Brubuild Pty Ltd
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Webb Concreting
