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In 2008/2009 we had 517 bottles, so 581 is an impressive 12.4% increase in consumption. I put it down to no election to interfere!
The average guess was 538, and I went for 533. The highest guest was Richard on 551.
Of minor interest is both corks and stelvins increased. Corks went up by 35 and stelvins by 29.
Tags: corks, wineNZPA report:
An Australian wine writer’s latest book recommends several New Zealand wines, some of which had not even been bottled when it was released.
While reviewing Matt Skinner’s The Juice 2010 in August, The Listener’s wine writer Michael Cooper noticed the review copy had been released earlier than some of the wines it described.
“So, how could they have been tasted by Skinner, who lives in Australia, chosen as his best buys and gone through the whole writing, editing, printing, promotional process before someone like me in New Zealand has tasted them?” Cooper asked.
Cooper contacted the book’s British publisher and was told previous editions had been criticised for being out of date, so this time they decided to confirm the vintage and price ahead of time.
“Just one problem, Matt: you haven’t tasted the wine,” Cooper wrote.
I think authorities should treat this as a case of fraud. Skinner is selling a book purporting to be based on someone having sampled the wine.
Tags: fraud, Matt Skinner, Michael Cooper, wineIf you are a wine fan, they Wine Searcher.
It is a specialist search engine, run by a Kiwi company, of 9,849 wine stores with over 3 million wines on offer.
I also use Black Market a lot for really good specials.
Tags: wineI blogged back in February the annual cork counting competition. 2005/06 was 456 and 2006/07 was 496.
Guesses from those who helped drink the wine ranged from 495 to 648, averaging 553.
Guesses on the blog were from 483 to 599.
The result was less than most predicted, but still an increase over the previous year – 512. That includes 240 stelvins. Chicken Little was closest on the blog with 510 and Arnold K in real life guessed 512 exactly.
Those stelvins do made it hard to guess.
Tags: corks, DPF, wine