When sifting through your kitchen drawer or even out in an op shop, you'll likely find a corkscrew and not give it a second thought. But Kevin Farrell in the New South Wales wine-growing region of Griffith has more than just a passing fascination.
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00:00The thrill of finding a unique corkscrew is like striking gold for this 82-year-old.
00:08It's a Eureka type moment, it really is.
00:12Kevin Farrell is what's known as a helixophile and the more nifty little knick-knacks he finds, the more his wonder grows.
00:20It's extraordinary how many different corkscrews people have made and they're floating around in our society.
00:28Kevin's quirky passion started about 25 years ago when he and his wife dipped their toes into making wine.
00:35One of the bottlings was done in a winery where they inadvertently used a cork that was just not up to scratch.
00:47In order to get the cork out, he needed to find a device that didn't leave debris in the bottle.
00:52This is the answer, this fork one, because with this you can get the corkscrew to go down the side like that
01:00and you just rock it backwards and forwards, give it a twist and out comes the cork.
01:07Finding this quintessential corkscrew started Kevin on a mission to grow his collection.
01:12I 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.
01:21Kevin finds all kinds of weird and wonderful corkscrews by rummaging through second hand stores.
01:27But some of us are just happy to find the one in the kitchen drawer and get it to work.
01:32And you've got to be careful because you don't want to twig any other corkscrew collectors in the St Vinny's that you've found.
01:40The feeling of a new one to add to his collection? Priceless.
01:45I haven't got this one, new beauty and it's a real buzz.
01:49Kevin, for this helixophile.