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recotte -> RE: 2024 Wine Resolutions (1/5/2024 9:11:42 AM)
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ORIGINAL: grafstrb
Like others here, I don't do New Year's resolutions. That said, with respect to wine, I do have a tendency at this point every year to look back and assess what has happened with the cellar in the prior year, think about current and anticipated consumption trends, and try to determine what needs to happen to bring the cellar into "proper balance", whatever that means --- it will mean different things to different people. Based on what you wrote, it sounds like what it means to me is very similar to what it means to you.
Like you, I have perceived, if not actual, cellar size problems and I am not interested in increasing consumption. As you concluded for yourself, I have decided I need to buy more thoughtfully this year. For me, that means increasing my cellar diversity, specifically with an eye towards buying more Italy, Spain, South Africa, and Portugal. I often love wines from those areas, but when it comes to what I buy, it's nearly all French, with a healthy dose of German Riesling --- this is what I get sucked-into. I need for my buying to reflect not what i'm most excited about, but rather our consumption habits/preferences, which is far more varied.
I think we're in very similar spots. I don't make "life" new years resolutions, like most have opined here, but especially using the CT tools at our disposal, it's a good time to check in and look at buying vs. consumption trends, and where I need to do any course corrections to ensure I have the cellar that I want over the next X number of years. Seems kind of silly to have a nice cellar that's chock full, and not have it filled with the things I actually want to be drinking!
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ORIGINAL: bretrooks
I like to think in terms of "trajectory changes for the new year" versus resolutions.
I very much like that phrase, "trajectory changes for the new year."
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