Many labels are described as soiled or wrinkled, with some corks depressed and capsules corroded.
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But as he slunk off to lick his wounds, there were few champagne corks popping.
Staff at the Breitling mission control centre in Geneva popped champagne corks and cheered.
Ainley says they can leap nine or ten feet, popping out of the water like corks.
In homage, the corks of his wine called Rio Sol, river and sun, bear the figure eight.
In the stylish Airbus executive dining room, champagne corks are still popping over its recent sales successes.
There were many hours of testimony about everything from corks and labels, to bottle shapes and carbon dating.
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Croatia is gearing up to celebrate its entry into the EU, but don't pop the corks just yet.
There's their fizz, of course, to punctuate your holiday with exclamation marks of popping corks (or hissing caps).
Just add the guests, pop the corks and let the good times roll!
Before anyone pops champagne corks, we'd warn that there's heavy amounts of publicity and symbolism involved in the acquisition attempt.
The American wrapped up gold with a stunning first run, which included back to back double corks with double grabs.
In the natural-gas world, champagne corks do not usually fly unless a well gives up over 10m cubic feet of gas a day.
Master of Wine Jasper Morris, author of "Inside Burgundy" (2010), says that in his opinion the two most plausible explanations are faulty corks and global warming.
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When movie maker Warner Bros. said it would throw its weight behind Sony's format for storing high definition movies, Blu-Ray, Sony executives likely popped a few corks.
The invitations to the first new members from Eastern Europe will be issued, to a volley of champagne corks, at a special summit at Madrid in July.
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Champagne corks are popping as the gallery celebrates its anniversary.
Further, Greenberg tried to remove bogus bottles himself before the sale and he exposed the corks on bottles so buyers could examine them prior to the sale, Shartsis said.
But they do have their letters, and that mailbox, and some pretty convoluted plot twists to keep them company as they bob like corks on a stormy sea of time... or something.
Ten years ago, as wineries began to seal bottles with screw caps instead of corks, there was an initial backlash before a long, slow period of acceptance that, some would argue, remains ongoing.
Most passengers languish on deck as the Tucker T cuts through the sheltered sea of the Bay, keeping their eyes peeled for the dolphins and penguins that occasionally surface alongside like bobbing corks.
Indeed, that's a truly remarkable accomplishment, given the fact that most fund managers would be slapping high-fives and popping champagne corks if they could string together just three straight years of beating their benchmarks.
Table tennis, a sport now commonly associated with East Asia, is supposed to have started when British officials shaved the corks of their champagne bottles into balls and played the game on the dinner table.
The good news is that through the adoption of a number of measures by winemakers, such as adding higher levels of sulfur and using more reliable corks, we are undoubtedly over the worst of it.
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"We're not ready to pop the champagne corks and have a party, " said Doug Honnold, the managing attorney for Earthjustice, a non-profit environmental law firm based in Oakland, California, that has threatened to sue the government.
Their game, Crop Master: Protector of the Green Earth, is a series of eco-inspired mini games which include dropping massive corks into polluting chimneys and having to click the mouse fast enough to spin a wind turbine.
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But the atmosphere is also very informal: the crowd drinks a lot, champagne corks pop incessantly, and many seize the excuse for flamboyance with feather boas, velvet zoot suits and leopard-print fedoras, while one prominent Melbourne socialite was resplendent in a canary yellow leather suit with matching cowboy boots.
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Debunking the notion that good wines come only in glass bottles sealed with corks, French winemaker Boisset Family Estates is introducing into the U.S. a 750-milliliter polyethylene terephthalate bottle of wine called Yellow Jersey--a chardonnay, a sauvignon blanc, a pinot noir and a merlot, from grapes grown in the Languedoc region of France.
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