Byline: DAVID WHETSTONE
"We've got books here with cartoons from the 18th Century which are just as rude."Aurelio Montes is a pioneer in the production of Chilean premium wine. "Before the earthquake, I never dreamed we would have such an event. Fortunately much of the wine lost was second stock in tank that we sell in bulk. But we lost 17% of our wine stock in Colchagua," said the chairman and winemaker of Montes Wine.CAPTION(S):As for the rest of the room, our favorite piece is our sofa table. It's not behind the sofa, though. We use it as an anchor piece against one of our walls. There are lamps on both ends and it's filled with photos of both our families. It's always a great conversation starter.There is also a programme of events including cartoon workshops and talks.Fortunately, the quake arrived as the first white grapes of harvest trickled into wineries. The weather cooperated with no heat spikes, while irrigation remained problematic. Some winemakers such as Grant Phelps at Casas del Bosque were simply lucky. The week before, Phelps had moved wine from barrel to tank to begin bottling blends. He lost the equivalent of 15 barrels of wine, but only one tank.Wineries such as Amayna in the San Antonio Valley benefited from owners with real estate backgrounds, who built with strong structural safeguards and experienced minimal damage.Our living room has two focal points, the fireplace and our TV armoire. Unfortunately, the armoire ended up next to the fireplace, simply because of the cable jack. It does work there quite well, but ideally we would have liked to move it around to some different places to get a feel for where it worked best. Just goes to show you that sometimes you have play the hand you're dealt.The tank crushAfter the color was set, we had to think about what to put on these walls...PaintWall DecorWe had the color scheme...our favorite latte, a little red, a bit of of gold...we knew the size...then we saw it in the framed art and wall decor section at Kirkland's. The frame was the perfect thickness...the colors were just right and the size looked like it would fit pefectly above the mantle. Sometimes you just have to go for it.Where was our primary light source? For us it was recessed lighting over the mantle. In other words, not alot!Several Veramonte stainless steel tanks were damaged. Owner of the company and Agustin's son, Agustin Francisco Huneeus succinctly summed up the damage: "The bolts at the base failed, and the legs of the tank buckled over."When it came to add lamps to our decor, we had to figure out the answers to some pretty important questions."We didn't have water for six days. Fortunately we had irrigated the week before, due to hot weather. It will be expensive for us to pump from the Maipo River, but we are buying a generator anyway," Gomez said.
LAUNCH: Chris Donald at the Lit & Phil in Newcastle for the Viz exhibition CHEEKY HUMOUR: Some of the Viz cartoons on display in the Lit & Phil's gallery. The show originally opened in London last year
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