And the winner is: Marcy Spencer, who picked the number exactly. That’s the first time that has happened in the four years we’ve done this. The winning number was 68 (screenshot to the right). That was the final giveaway for Birthday Week, and what a way to end it. Thanks to everyone who participated. We’ll try to make it even more fun, with better prizes, next year.
Today, to celebrate the blog’s seventh anniversary, we’re giving away two autographed copies of The Wine Curmudgeon’s Guide to Cheap Wine. This is the final of five daily giveaways; check out this post to see what we gave away this year.
Complete contest rules are here. Pick a number between 1 and 1,000 and leave it in the comment section of this post. You can’t pick a number someone else has picked, and you need to leave your guess in the comments section of this post — no email entries or entries on other posts. Unless the number is in the comments section of this post, the entry won’t count.
If you get the blog via email or RSS, you need to go to this post on the website to enter (click the link to get there). At about 5 p.m. central today, I’ll go to random.org and generate the winning number. The person whose entry is closest to that number gets the autographed books.
And the winner is: Darcy, who selected 475; the winning number was 369 (screenshot to the left). Thanks to everyone who participated. Tomorrow’s giveaway, the final one for Birthday Week, is the cheap wine book — two autographed copies just in time for the holidays.
And the winner is: asb, who selected 840; the winning number was 870 (screenshot to the right). Thanks to
The Wine Curmudgeon’s annual thank you to everyone who reads the blog and visits the site, since I wouldn’t be doing this without you. 
