Audio Pro Lights La Cité du Vin with Chauvet Professional

	"We are very pleased with the integration process, the reorganization of the control room and the entire project," says Chassereau.

Much has been written about the intricate beauty and complexity of wine, the "most civilized of drinks." Galileo Galilei, the great scientist, who unlocked so many mysteries of the universe, described this quality well when he proclaimed, "Wine is sunlight, held together by water!"

In no place does this sunlight shine quite as brightly as it does in the Bordeaux Wine Regions. There, climate, soil, and inspired traditions have combined to create many of the most sought after and celebrated wines in the world. It is no wonder then, that Bordeaux is the site of the world's largest wine museum, La Cité du Vin.

Covering over 65,000 sq. m. and featuring four zones of virtual-interactive exhibition space, the museum is a dazzling celebration of wine, not just varieties of the Bordeaux region, but wines from all over the world, and every era of history. For example, in one exhibit, visitors can take an aerial journey over vineyards across the globe.

Enhancing the experience of visitors to La Cité du Vin is a recently upgraded lighting system of the Auditorium designed and installed by Audio Pro from Mérignac (a city in the Bordeaux suburbs) that features a collection of Chauvet Professional Ovation and Rogue projectors.

"Our creative brief for this project was to replace the existing halogen projectors with more energy-efficient and environmentally friendly LED products," says Philippe Chassereau, sales and purchasing manager of Audio Pro. "We wanted to reinforce the existing lighting with LED pars and LED projectors."

After evaluating a variety of different options for a period of six weeks, the specialists at Audio Pro along with the technical team from La Cité du Vin, led by the museum's general manager Sylvain Lafforgue, selected six Ovation E-910FC color-mixing ellipsoidals with 15/30° lenses, as well as four high-output 300W Rogue R3 Spot moving projectors.

Speaking of the Ovation and Rogue projectors, Chassereau notes, "The Ovation series corresponds perfectly to the replacement needs of the traditional halogen sources at the museum, hence its choice for this installation. As for the Rogue projectors, the need for animation equipment directed us to them. They have very good power and they perfectly met the demands of this project."

Arranged in different positions throughout the museum's auditorium, the new LED projectors have blended seamlessly with the lighting system already in place at La Cité du Vin. "We are very pleased with the integration process, the reorganization of the control room and the entire project," says Chassereau. "Everything has come together very well."

Having things "come together" is at the heart of fine wine making...and, as the Audio Pro team has demonstrated at La Cité du Vin, it's essential to creating a fine museum lighting system as well.