With all of the spring allocations, and many of us complaining about lack of storage space, I was curious…how many bottles do you currently have in your wine collection?
Looked at another way, 960 bottles is 80 cases. If you live for 80 years after purchasing the 80 cases, that averages out to one case a year, or one bottle per month. That, plus the desirability of drinking properly aged, mature wine, shows how unsurprising the 1,000±bottle cellars and maxed-out credit cards should be, not to mention the wine lockers and credit cards hidden from significant others!
Agreed on both points. I don’t recall prior polls showing such a predominance of 1000 bottle+ cellars. So has everyone here’s cellar grown or were prior polls broken down differently I wonder. I am close to that 500 bottle mark, but a break in buying has kept me below.
Bill raises a good point about drinking properly aged wines. If I look at my CellarTracker consumption history I have about 12-14 years of inventory. Given that I like to have wines with 10-15 years of age on them (some with more than that - e.g. Port) that number feels about right. I end up drinking both young and older wines, and the cellar keeps in balance. It does necessitate a shockingly high bottle count.
That being said, the credit card gets paid off in full every month. The retirement saving get fully funded every month. If the wine buying ever causes any of those to not happen then I am done with buying.