A nice drop

This store, "Wine Experience" at Rosalie, Brisbane is a client of Hartley Shopfitters. It's located in the Baroona Rd precinct. Although the store has been there for a number of years, towards the end of 2009, Hartleys did a major refurb. It looked fantastic after and had a really nice and dark moody feel. The store has a mezzanine section at the back and then a type of attic room, where they run wine appreciation courses.
http://www.wineexperience.com.au/

During January this year most people would have Wine Experience on tv, however you would have only seen the top of the store facade above the flood water. Pretty much the whole store was flooded except for this top attic room. Some wine was able to be moved upstairs into this room, other bottles were moved off site, but a lot of stock was still lost. As soon as the water receded the guys from Hartleys were over there helping to clean up and then running all the new joinery thru the factory. Fortunately the plans were easily at hand and it's always quicker to construct a 2nd time round!

After a long year for the owners of Wine Experience; father and son Denis and Michael Nolan, are just finishing off the last areas. Hartley's have just made this wall mural for their attic room.  It's made from timber wine crates with the manufacturers stamps on them. Some of the crates are very old and rare. I had the fun job of laying them out to see what type of pattern we could get. It was like making a patch work quilt out of timber.

We might even look at some more wine inspired art for this area. This is a little project I made a while ago for myself. No, I didn't drink all the bottles myself!

A parting note with a wine undertone- if you consider yourself a "land lubber" and can never remember your port from your starboard, here's the trick.

"There's always Port left at the end of the night."