For the last 15 years I have kept empty bottles that I have drunk because I found that the memory works better with the empty bottle than with a label put in a book.
I did so because I have the disease of never throwing anything. You can imagine that my wife does not appreciate, but we celebrated yesterday our 48th wedding anniversary. This disease is not mortal.
What to do with thousands of empty bottles ?
First I wanted to make a class photograph of pupils of the same school (the DRC pupils)
Then I thought of American movies about Army. In every film when the soldiers are ranked there is always a bad guy.
I wanted to figure it this way :
Then I wanted to show the importance of this collection worth only for my memory
And to show that all that is not so serious, I wanted to make it with a bit of humor
more seriously, I intend to make a book about all what I have drunk (I have notes for more that 12,000 wines) and these bottles will help me to put nice pictures of some of them.
To answer a possible question, none of these bottles will ever be sold to anyone, and my children know that when I die they will use a hammer to destroy all that.