Obiter has always suspected that the legal profession is partial to a tipple (indeed, see Memory Lane’s report of the Solicitors Wine Society annual banquet). The phenomenal response to our Christmas competition, with more than 100 entries, rather seemed to prove the point.

First out of the traps with the correct answers, showing either an encyclopaedic knowledge of wine bottle sizes, or a decent understanding of how to use website Wikipedia, were: Matthew Scudamore, solicitor at Birmingham City Council; Richmond Duff, partner at Housing & Property Law Partnership Solicitors; Nadine Ogermann, solicitor at Claims G4S Secure Solutions (UK); Karen Weetman at KBR Law Department/BLP Lawyers on Demand; Robin Fry, partner at City firm Beachcroft; and Tim Andrews, professional support lawyer at City firm Stephenson Harwood.

Congratulations to all. They should already have received a magnum of Chateau La Rose Gadis 2004 Bordeaux Rouge, courtesy of Gazette reader offer partner Averys Wine Merchants. Oh, and the correct order of the wine bottles, for anyone else who is interested, is: Nebuchadnezzar, Balthazar, Salmanazar, Methuselah, Jeroboam, Magnum.