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in fact I am thinking about doing one. I should ask the restaraunts I go to and have wine for the corks when I go out with my friends. it could be a souvenier (sp) of my travels with them

Jase. please do one! You are so creative. I think it would be so awesome.

" I should ask the restaraunts I go to and have wine for the corks when I go out with my friends"

The server should be presenting the cork to you whether or not you want it.

This developed to prevent any chicanery on the part of the seller, such as refilling a bottle of Chateau X over and over again with the house wine.

I was watching some tv program the other day and this lady had been collecting corks for 30 yrs. She totally covered her car with them and had all kinds of neat stuff she made with them. A local bar saved corks for her. I can't remember now what show it was on...I hate that...this will drive me crazy!

To answer FrankJBN - yes, I am going to just collect wine bottles.....and wine corks...

Lisa, your stuff is cool, of course! Now, I'm wanting a cork trivet myself. I'm not very crafty but I can probably do the hose clamp one.

Over the years I have collected (or I guess it is really just saved) a few bottles. The 1970 Ch.Beycheville is my most recent addition - and currently stands as the only one I have (and the only 35 year old Bordeaux I have ever drunk).

I think back fondly to the first Medoc I ever drank - had that bottle for years and years. It being the 70s at the time, I made a candle holder of it.
Ch. Mouton Baronne Phillippe - for just a few years this historic wine was named and dedicated to the Baroness Phillippine (sp?) and the label was thus different from the former and latter runs.

I have collected/saved labels for years and have not lost them over the years. I somehow think I will never make more than the first (and only) collage I put together some years ago, but hope springs eternal, eh?

Hi, I hi, I really like all the ides here for collections of corks and bottles. I too have way too many corks. I like the trivet ideas.
liz ras