Corkscrew resources, organizations, and books for corkscrew collectors. Where to shop; how much to pay.
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Selecting The Right Corkscrew (c) by Craig Goldwyn Clair Bretecher, a French cartoonist, once drew this pathetic, wordless sequence: She is lying on her mattress on the floor, bawling her eyes out, while his scowling memory hovers in a thought balloon overhead. Finally she rises, pulls herself together, struggles and boots the scoundrel out of her mind. Resolved, she marches into the kitchen, ...
www.taproom.com/beer/cork.htm
Champagne collectables for those beguile... Working at keeping up in the global rac... Back To Home Page Champagne collectables for those beguiled by the grape A more elastic credit card might stretch to Bancroft's exquisite Georgian claret jug at R23 000 SERIOUS wine lovers - by which I mean those who mature their red and some of their white wines - are, by nature, collectors. They are only too ...
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Wine was invented around 7000 B.C., in Georgia. The conservation dilemna soon arose and for a long period of time, wine has been stored in buried terracotta amphoras sealed with oak. Vineyards were implanted in Gaul by the Romans (5th century A.C.). The Gallics, in exchange, used barels instead of amphoras. The use of glass first appeared in Venice (12th and 13th century) but only when wine was ...
www.sonoma-loeb.com/corkscrew.htm
A New Twist for Collectors by Stephen J. Thomson It is a little known fact that the first corkscrew was patented in England by the Reverend Samuel Henshall (see figure I) in 1795. Today the corkscrew is fast emerging as one of the most desirable antiques to collect throughout the world. This fact is especially true in the United States where the interest in wine and its consumption has fueled a ...
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