Most bottles of a single wine from one vintage in your cellar

[MChang]

Definitely 2008 Dom perignon (not sure how much but 15-20 cases), followed by 2008 Cristal and Krug 168, both > 10 cases.

For still wines 17 PYCM BB and 17 HN BR which are our house white and red, respectively.

You planning to flip that down the road or drink all that?

Drink

[MChang]

the next Dom release is 2012, I believe

In fact, it is the 2010, which is being launched this year. I already reviewed it!

Cool; surprised they made one, I’ll likely pass until 12; I haven’t bought off vintage Dom really, just 02, a handful of 04/06, quite a bit of 09 and lots of 08.

[Chris_Seiber]

I’m much more a diversity wine guy (omnivinovore), and my larger quantities are mainly the result of buying Scherrer futures by the case. So I have 20 of the 2017 Scherrer OMV zin, for example, and a case of 2013 Scherrer RRV pinot.

Aside from Scherrer futures orders, I have 9 of the 2013 Ridge Geyserville, a wine I targeted mostly to hold for longer term aging.

Then I have 8 bottles each of:

Musar 2004
Lisini Brunello 2010
Joh. Jos. Prüm Graacher Himmelreich Riesling Kabinett 2015
Musar 2008

Again, not really my nature to go super long on one bottle.

[Marshall_Manning]

This is me too. My wine interests/tastes are far too varied to commit to significant quantities of one wine. I typically buy 2-3 bottles of a wine, and if it’s something I really love, I might buy 4-8 bottles (or even a case on very rare occasions where I find a truly great wine for a price I can’t pass up).

I probably do have a full case quantity a handful of wines (3-4) purchased over the years, with most of the rest being in the 2-4 bottles/wine range.

Same here, John. I generally buy 3-6 bottles depending on price. I like variety, so wouldn’t want multiple cases of most wines, but I guess if you have enough money to where 15 cases of a particular wine still leaves with you enough to buy other wines then it’s not a problem .

[Vince_L1]

This is me too. My wine interests/tastes are far too varied to commit to significant quantities of one wine. I typically buy 2-3 bottles of a wine, and if it’s something I really love, I might buy 4-8 bottles (or even a case on very rare occasions where I find a truly great wine for a price I can’t pass up).

I probably do have a full case quantity a handful of wines (3-4) purchased over the years, with most of the rest being in the 2-4 bottles/wine range.

Same here, John. I generally buy 3-6 bottles depending on price. I like variety, so wouldn’t want multiple cases of most wines, but I guess if you have enough money to where 15 cases of a particular wine still leaves with you enough to buy other wines then it’s not a problem .

Not to mention about storage

[Patrick_Stella]

Definitely 2008 Dom perignon (not sure how much but 15-20 cases), followed by 2008 Cristal and Krug 168, both > 10 cases.

For still wines 17 PYCM BB and 17 HN BR which are our house white and red, respectively.

Hey Michael, just curious–do you think of a case here as a 6 pack or a 12 pack? Either way, I agree young champagnes are good to stock up on.

I have a similar composition: generally 08s, 06s, 04s, and 02s of various champagnes and their rose counterparts are all bouncing around between 36 and 120 bottles. On the slightly older side, 96 Taittinger cdc blanc looks surprisingly well stocked at 81 bottles and 7 mags, and 96 dp rose at 68 bottles and 12 mags

For non champagne, 90 Cheval seems to be my biggest holding at 35 bottles

For spirits, 23 bottles of Tesseron Lot 29, which I hope will really age nicely in bottle followed by a motley mixed case of various 1811s. Not the same bottlings though.

[Dan_Hammer]

9 Jean Edwards Sauvignon Blanc Dalla Gasperina as an everyday drinker for my wife,

3 William and Mary Prop Red Shifflett Ranch. 2017.

3 EMH Black Cat Cabernet. 2014.

[Sarah_Kirschbaum]

This is me too. My wine interests/tastes are far too varied to commit to significant quantities of one wine. I typically buy 2-3 bottles of a wine, and if it’s something I really love, I might buy 4-8 bottles (or even a case on very rare occasions where I find a truly great wine for a price I can’t pass up).

I probably do have a full case quantity a handful of wines (3-4) purchased over the years, with most of the rest being in the 2-4 bottles/wine range.

Same here, John. I generally buy 3-6 bottles depending on price. I like variety, so wouldn’t want multiple cases of most wines, but I guess if you have enough money to where 15 cases of a particular wine still leaves with you enough to buy other wines then it’s not a problem .

Thank you for mentioning this, Marshall. It’s the silent point in the background every time the breadth versus depth question comes up, one I’ve been hesitant to point out myself. So deep breath…

It is incorrect to assume that either one likes variety, or one buys wine in quantity. That may of course be true for any given individual, with his or her particular constraints. But it isn’t at all true in the general sense, or when you turn it around, as in “you must not like variety because you buy cases of one wine.” I love variety. Several who have read my recent bi-monthly notes posts have commented on the diversity of what I drink. I also prefer to buy wines I like in quantity. One doesn’t preclude the other. I acknowledge, though, that my ability to have both breadth and depth is predicated on the fact that I’m lucky to have plenty of space, and some disposable income - we’re not wealthy, but we are approaching 50, have no dependents, have invested conservatively, have two incomes (until recently, grrr…), are both wine collectors, and have only one or two other hobbies. It’s much easier to have both diversity and buy in cases when your cellar is 1000 than when it is 100. With every step up in magnitude, this becomes more and more true. Very few of us can pull a Rosania.

I’m always uncomfortable and squeamish about talking cellar size, I keep my CT private etc. I got really angry with a colleague who came to my house for a party, took a video in my cellar, and then shared it around the office. But I also want to correct the notion I have limited tastes, or don’t enjoy diversity or variety, just because I am a case purchaser much of the time. I don’t sit around drinking the same 5 or 6 wines every month. Take Egly rose, for instance - I posted above that it’s my largest holding. We drank 6 bottles of it last year, and only 1 so far in 2020, and we drink pretty much daily.

[MChang]

Definitely 2008 Dom perignon (not sure how much but 15-20 cases), followed by 2008 Cristal and Krug 168, both > 10 cases.

For still wines 17 PYCM BB and 17 HN BR which are our house white and red, respectively.

Hey Michael, just curious–do you think of a case here as a 6 pack or a 12 pack? Either way, I agree young champagnes are good to stock up on.

I have a similar composition: generally 08s, 06s, 04s, and 02s of various champagnes and their rose counterparts are all bouncing around between 36 and 120 bottles. On the slightly older side, 96 Taittinger cdc blanc looks surprisingly well stocked at 81 bottles and 7 mags, and 96 dp rose at 68 bottles and 12 mags

For non champagne, 90 Cheval seems to be my biggest holding at 35 bottles

For spirits, 23 bottles of Tesseron Lot 29, which I hope will really age nicely in bottle followed by a motley mixed case of various 1811s. Not the same bottlings though.

That’s a nice selection of older vintages. I haven’t been around as long so don’t have so good of holdings in older vintages. I have a few cases of 164 as well including 12 mags, but that’s mostly it. I only have probably 3-6 bottles of the other older vintages.

[Nick_Christie]

Definitely 2008 Dom perignon (not sure how much but 15-20 cases), followed by 2008 Cristal and Krug 168, both > 10 cases

[Dav3_Dyr0ff]

Like some others have already said, I’m much more a diversity guy than a specialist guy (and don’t have the wine budget or storage space to be both a diversity guy and a “buy by the case” guy), both in wanting many different vintages of the wines I love and wanting to have lots of different wines rather than just a few but in larger quantity. While accumulating my cellar I very rarely bought more than 3 of anything, and I never bought more than six except under special circumstances (killer deal on a case, or I bought some and then a killer deal came along so I bought some more, etc. - possibly even the dreaded “I didn’t realize I already bought some of this and I just bought more”). Now that my cellar is at (over) max capacity, those purchasing numbers will go down and I’ll likely stick mostly to 1-2 as I now try to buy quantities that are less than or equal to the quantities I’m drinking.

(All of the above excludes “daily drinkers,” which I inventory more by eyeball than by tracking individual bottles and will occasionally buy a case of something).

Glancing through the “good stuff” I do inventory, it looks like I have either 8 or 9 of these top three, all because of special deal circumstances -

2010 Beaucastel
2013 Vajra Bricco della Viole
2015 Champet “La Vialliere”

[Paul_McCourt]

3 cases of 2005 Larcis Ducasse.

The most I’ve ever had was a whole bunch of cases of 2005 Huet Le Mont. I went crazy buying it but sold most of it off over time.

[scamhi]

about 28 bottles of 1998 Soldera Brunello (normale)

[Brandon_R]

Five.

I have five bottles of 2016 Walter Scott X-Novo Chard, and four bottles of several wines: CT Barrel Project SJR Vineyard Syrah and DuBrul Vineyard Cab (2014), 2016 William & Mary Cab Shifflett Ranch, and three of a whole bunch of wines.

[Patrick_Stella]

Definitely 2008 Dom perignon (not sure how much but 15-20 cases), followed by 2008 Cristal and Krug 168, both > 10 cases.

For still wines 17 PYCM BB and 17 HN BR which are our house white and red, respectively.

Hey Michael, just curious–do you think of a case here as a 6 pack or a 12 pack? Either way, I agree young champagnes are good to stock up on.

I have a similar composition: generally 08s, 06s, 04s, and 02s of various champagnes and their rose counterparts are all bouncing around between 36 and 120 bottles. On the slightly older side, 96 Taittinger cdc blanc looks surprisingly well stocked at 81 bottles and 7 mags, and 96 dp rose at 68 bottles and 12 mags

For non champagne, 90 Cheval seems to be my biggest holding at 35 bottles

For spirits, 23 bottles of Tesseron Lot 29, which I hope will really age nicely in bottle followed by a motley mixed case of various 1811s. Not the same bottlings though.

That’s a nice selection of older vintages. I haven’t been around as long so don’t have so good of holdings in older vintages. I have a few cases of 164 as well including 12 mags, but that’s mostly it. I only have probably 3-6 bottles of the other older vintages.

Well done.

That’s a hefty chunk of Dom.

How do you distribute between bottle size? Stick to bottles? Focus on mags? I always go back and forth on it. I always find the mag premium on champagnes to be just high enough to be a little annoying…but then down the line I wish I had sucked it up and bought mags. But then I don’t find as many occasions for mags either.

[Jerry_Hey]

similar thread years ago got the mic drop when Rosania said he had 500 cases of 96 Salon, admittedly 6 bottle cases, but geez . . . 3000 bottles, at that time about $200/b, now close to $1000/b.

Mostly made by Rudy???

[Yao_C]

My max is 4, but then I only have a little over 400 bottles collected over a period of 5 years. 2016 Alpha Omega Era, 2002 Pierre Peters Chetillons, and 2018 Ganevat La Bubulle à Jeannot

It is incorrect to assume that either one likes variety, or one buys wine in quantity. That may of course be true for any given individual, with his or her particular constraints. But it isn’t at all true in the general sense, or when you turn it around, as in “you must not like variety because you buy cases of one wine.” I love variety.

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Your point is certainly correct. It is also true, I would suspect for the vast majority of wine drinkers, that budget constraints force trade-offs between buying wines in quantity and buying a wide sample of wines. This is true for me, and it sounds like it’s true for you. One of the things we’re doing here is getting a sense of the tradeoffs that people have made in the past, as shown by their cellar composition. You’re at a point on the continuum that is different from where I am, and that’s fine. I don’t think anyone is making assumptions about your tastes or casting aspersions as a result…

[dsimmons]

I rarely buy more than three of anything these days but carry overs from years gone by includes 10 bottles each of 2008 Quilceda Creek Estate Cab and 2005 Cos d’Estournel.

[Vinod_S]

Interesting question. In the UK most purchases are 6 or 12 bottle cases. I seem to have 18 bottles of:
-2015 Pichon Lalande
-2008 Vilmart Coeur de Cuvée
-2014 Faiveley Cazetiers

[AD_Northup]

8 here, 2015 Roses de Jeanne Le Presle