Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2011/06/05
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Considering how many bottles of good wine I've lost to bad corks, I'm very pleased with the new trend for even better wines to have plastic corks or screw caps. I like the ceremony and history of corks for wine bottles, and have a brass version of one of these in my kitchen: http://tinyurl.com/3jy4qcd but for wines that are not to be laid down to age for a while, screw tops or plastic corks make a lot of sense to me. At 6:42 PM -0700 6/5/11, Herbert Kanner wrote: >Impressive! > >So what do you do with that abomination: screw caps? > >Herb > > > > >>Nathan writes: >> >>For the past 13-14 years, we have been saving all the corks from wine >>bottles consumed at our home. Soon we will need to buy a new container: >> >> >>http://www.greatpix.eu/All/Picture-A-Day/4253606_netUM#1321351777_4wd62mK-O-LB >> >> >>Cheers :-) >> >> >>Nathan >>- - - - - >>I estimate that there are no more than 1200 corks in the container. Over a >>14 year period that's less than two bottles of wine a week. By my standards >>you are practically a teetotaler. >>Larry Z >> >>_______________________________________________ >>Leica Users Group. >>See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > >-- >Herbert Kanner >kanner at acm.org >650-326-8204 > >Do not meddle in the affairs of cats, >for they are subtle and will pee >on your computer! > >_______________________________________________ >Leica Users Group. >See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information -- Henning J. Wulff Wulff Photography & Design mailto:henningw at archiphoto.com http://www.archiphoto.com