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Cork Count 2008 Competition

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It's on again.
It took me a while to fill this: Image

but now it's chockers: Image

The jar is 330 mm high to the top of the cork cap (which counts as 1 cork), circumference around the widest part (irregular shape, measured with a string) is 1000 mm.

The competition is open for 2 weeks from today and will be won by the person who nominates a number that is the closest to the actual number of corks in the jar. Only one guess per person.

The prize is a bottle of John's Blend Cabernet 1996 or a Fox Creek Reserve Cabernet 1998, delivered anywhere in Australia, pretty sure single bottle freight to NZ or elsewhere is prohibitive.
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Not interested in the wine but I can see a Lake's Folly cork which is very encouraging :)
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PS. What is the 2008 vintage in McLaren going to be like?
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i see a rosemount cork which disturbs me!
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Craig(NZ) wrote:i see a rosemount cork which disturbs me!


Probably a Balmoral 98 (last good one) or a Tradtional 2001 JWT winner, it's drinking nicely now, that's about all the Rosemount in my cellar.
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Gary W wrote:Not interested in the wine but I can see a Lake's Folly cork which is very encouraging :)
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PS. What is the 2008 vintage in McLaren going to be like?


Ok, you can have a 98 Lakes Folly cabernets if you win.

Dunno about 2008 in McLarenVale, haven't emailed the Pie King Vineyards in a while.
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Using all sorts of mathematical theories and other twaddle, I have worked it out to be 387. 8)

Which is probably as close as Dr Nick ever is with diagnoses :D

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My guess would be 287.

Overt what sort of time period did you manage to fill this jar, though? That info would improve the accuracy of my guess significantly!

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A round 300
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lets try for 354

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243 for me

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drlev wrote:My guess would be 287.

Overt what sort of time period did you manage to fill this jar, though? That info would improve the accuracy of my guess significantly!

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I'm not sure it really helps, I mostly only put corks with branding on them into the jar, the rest are recycled. The prior competition was in October 2005, so a bit over 2 years.
http://forum.auswine.com.au/viewtopic.p ... sc&start=0

I haven't actually counted them yet, but I will soon.
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Red Bigot wrote:Fox Creek Reserve Cabernet 2008 .


and 261

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Gary W wrote:
Red Bigot wrote:Fox Creek Reserve Cabernet 2008 .


GW

Oops. :oops: Fixed now, it's the 1998.
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390
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297
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Brian,
What was the jar used for before used corks? Or was it a job-specific purchase? I suspect that it contained anchovies. What do others think?
Could this be an ancillary question in the event of a tie?
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WineRick wrote:Brian,
What was the jar used for before used corks? Or was it a job-specific purchase? I suspect that it contained anchovies. What do others think?
Could this be an ancillary question in the event of a tie?


Ha, flushed out a newbie, welcome aboard.

I don't think it held anchovies, Andrea procured it many years ago as a "decorator" item and at one stage it was filled with rose petals from a bumper crop one year.

If anyone is careless enough to pick the same number as another person, the first posted correct entry wins, there won't be a tie.
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230
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210

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221.

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232 for me,

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263!
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164 please
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382 please
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333 for me :)

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269 is my guess.
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403

( 879 anchovies, i.e. 1758 fillets. Less if Baltic anchovies. )
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302 please
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