Kevin Farrell needed to find the right tool to open his wine without damaging the cork. It led him to owning a collection of 1,500 corkscrews.
The thrill of finding a unique corkscrew in an op-shop is like striking gold for Kevin Farrell.The retired history teacher from Griffith, in south-west New South Wales, has about 1,500 corkscrews in his collection.
"One of the bottlings was done at a winery where they inadvertently used a cork that wasn't up to scratch," he says.And so his search began to find something to pull out the cork without winding up with debris in his wine."I'd never seen one like that before," he says."I found other kinds of corkscrews. There's this kind and that kind. And oh, there's a different one and it just grew from there," he says.
"Another reason I like collecting the corkscrews is I know, historically, they're not going to be used one day," Kevin says.The Australian Wine industry experimented with screw-caps in the 1970s but it wasn't until 1999 when a group of winemakers in South Australia, paired with the Australia Wine Research Institute , put them to the test with the age-old cork.
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