Copied below is my post in another thread from a year ago. I thought I’d take a glance at the same stats from 2020. Much is relatively unchanged - “most frequent vintage” even stayed the same instead of rolling forward. The number of white wines we opened doubled, though, and Chianti Classico knocked CdP out of first place for appellation. Average value took a nice 20% drop, while number of bottles is up about 10%. I dropped a country and 4 varieties, but added 3 regions. I decided to list the top 2 in each category this year. This seems like it will be fun to look at over time. It’s also interesting to me because I don’t keep “daily drinkers” in my cellar inventory, I just add and mark them drunk as I open them. So all my “what’s in your cellar” stats are skewed by that omission, but these “what did you actually drink” stats tell a more complete story.
As before, this is based on CT “consumed” stats so it excludes wines that I forgot to enter when I drank them (hopefully none, but…) or that didn’t come from my cellar, and it uses CT definitions for variety, region, etc.
Total number of bottles consumed - 240
Type - 194 red, 34 white (incl. off-dry), 2 non-fortified dessert (white and red), 3 fortified, 3 rosé, 4 sparkling (incl. rosé)
Oldest vintage - 1976
Most frequent vintage - 2015 (28 bottles) then 2010 (20 bottles) (34 vintages total, including every vintage from 2000 through 2019)
Most frequent variety - Red Bdx blend (35 bottles) then syrah (29 bottles) - (45 varieties total)
Most frequent producer - Ca’ Rozzeria (7 bottles) then Turley (5 bottles) - (too many total to count)
Most frequent country - France (124 bottles) then Italy (47 bottles) - (9 countries total)
Most frequent region - Rhône (46 bottles) then Bordeaux (34 bottles) - (34 regions total)
Most frequent sub-region (other than “none”) - Southern Rhône (29 bottles) then Chianti (20 bottles) (31 sub-regions total, plus “none”)
Most frequent appellation (other than “none”) - Chianti Classico (19 bottles) then Châteauneuf-du-Pape (9 bottles) (112 appellations total)
Average value - $33
Highest value - $284.26 (1990 Léoville Poyferré)