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RE: Cellar Count Milestones - 12/15/2022 8:58:51 PM   
JohnWino

 

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Status: offline 		Inspiring thread, my cellar includes only 300 or so bottles, but my ideal cellar temperature capacity is 150 bottles. I think I need a better shovel to keep up with this lot.

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RE: Cellar Count Milestones - 12/16/2022 5:13:44 AM   
Sourdough

 

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Status: offline 		Three years of devoted drinking and reduced purchases allowed me to move out of one of my offsite lockers. Yea!

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RE: Cellar Count Milestones - 12/16/2022 10:49:19 AM   
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Three years of devoted drinking and reduced purchases allowed me to move out of one of my offsite lockers. Yea!


That is my goal...you are my hero. We are down 21 bottles for the year so far - Progress.

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RE: Cellar Count Milestones - 12/17/2022 5:04:49 AM   
Sourdough

 

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ORIGINAL: sastewart


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ORIGINAL: Sourdough

Three years of devoted drinking and reduced purchases allowed me to move out of one of my offsite lockers. Yea!


That is my goal...you are my hero. We are down 21 bottles for the year so far - Progress.


Once you start buying wine to hold any annual reduction is both challenging and an accomplishment. I actually pulled about a hundred bottles a year for three years. I was never in moratorium for long but we drank a lot of v wine and drank well. This year we will drink less and buy less and shoot for a 50 tob75 bottle pull. The storage I have at home and offsite is pretty stuffed and I need to get my nonrefrigerated storage down. But we keep our house cooler in the winter and we have 3 to 4 months to work it down. Then life will be much easier..

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RE: Cellar Count Milestones - 12/17/2022 12:00:39 PM   
khmark7

 

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Status: offline 		Down about 5 bottles thus far in 2022. Not exactly what i was hoping for. I need to bring the inventory down further each year.

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RE: Cellar Count Milestones - 12/17/2022 1:26:13 PM   
musedir

 

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Status: offline 		68 bottles less in 2022… how the hell did that happen?

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RE: Cellar Count Milestones - 12/17/2022 2:03:13 PM   
Eduardo787

 

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Status: offline 		2022 milestone ? I have 2 months to figure where am I going to put all my purchases at 57-59f or settle for a temp of 65-67f for a year on the excess inventory I have. I continue to buy 3x or 4x more than what I drink and this has to stop because of lack of space and since Monterrey is not the Pacific NW, I have very little time before we change from 50´s to 90´s

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RE: Cellar Count Milestones - 1/1/2023 8:55:29 AM   
BenNoir

 

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A milestone of sorts, 2022 is the first year my cellar actually got smaller.







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RE: Cellar Count Milestones - 1/3/2023 1:09:43 AM   
Liam3494

 

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Status: offline 		Unbeknown to me as the year went on, but I finished the year with exactly the same number I started with. I purchased 145, and consumed 145 bottles during 2022. A reduction on previous years, on both sides of the equation, but with 3 cases already on order this year, I get a feeling the numbers will be different this year.

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RE: Cellar Count Milestones - 1/11/2023 1:20:07 PM   
chrisrsprague

 

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sprague


Welp, with a delivery I took yesterday, I have now surpassed 600 bottles.

My racking capacity currently allows for 776. I need to stop soon. I do have the option of building more racks to get that number up to around 1100, but I'd rather not. Too hard to organize when it's this full.

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RE: Cellar Count Milestones - 1/12/2023 11:51:47 AM   
sastewart

 

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Welp, with a delivery I took yesterday, I have now surpassed 600 bottles.

My racking capacity currently allows for 776. I need to stop soon. I do have the option of building more racks to get that number up to around 1100, but I'd rather not. Too hard to organize when it's this full.

Based on experience I would predict that 776 will be a speedbump that may serve to slow you down for a while. After a period of time shuffling around wine cases on the floor and not finding the wine you are looking for the racks will be built and filled. The only question to me is weather you will need offsite storage at some point!

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RE: Cellar Count Milestones - 1/12/2023 8:15:52 PM   
BenG

 

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ORIGINAL: chrisrsprague

Welp, with a delivery I took yesterday, I have now surpassed 600 bottles.

My racking capacity currently allows for 776. I need to stop soon. I do have the option of building more racks to get that number up to around 1100, but I'd rather not. Too hard to organize when it's this full.


It will depend on what you/your wife/family/friends consumption of your cellar is. If you drink 200 cellared bottles a year and the average cellaring time (from purchase to consumption) is 5 years, then you will need a 1000 bottle cellar. If you cellar them for 4 years and drink 194 bottles a year, then 776 bottles is good.

If it's more than 776 bottles, it will be easier build more racks sooner than later. Your advantage is being located in Maine, where you will have quite a few months of the year when you can put all the bottles in the coolest room in the house while you upgrade the cellar.

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RE: Cellar Count Milestones - 1/13/2023 4:49:45 AM   
dad300

 

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ORIGINAL: BenG


quote:

ORIGINAL: chrisrsprague

Welp, with a delivery I took yesterday, I have now surpassed 600 bottles.

My racking capacity currently allows for 776. I need to stop soon. I do have the option of building more racks to get that number up to around 1100, but I'd rather not. Too hard to organize when it's this full.


It will depend on what you/your wife/family/friends consumption of your cellar is. If you drink 200 cellared bottles a year and the average cellaring time (from purchase to consumption) is 5 years, then you will need a 1000 bottle cellar. If you cellar them for 4 years and drink 194 bottles a year, then 776 bottles is good.

If it's more than 776 bottles, it will be easier build more racks sooner than later. Your advantage is being located in Maine, where you will have quite a few months of the year when you can put all the bottles in the coolest room in the house while you upgrade the cellar.

this was the way i was thinking when we purchased the biild 800.. we average between 250 and 300 bottles a year. much depending on visitors and how much entertaining. i am assuming that we will slow down at some point.. my goal is to have about 1500 bottles on hand when i retire in 10-15 years.. that should give me about 8-10 years of minimal purchasing.. I know wishful thinking..

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RE: Cellar Count Milestones - 1/13/2023 5:12:26 AM   
chrisrsprague

 

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Status: offline 		As for consumption, it's right around 15 bottles/month. 180 a year. As for cellaring time, well, it depends, I've only had my collection in CT for a little under 2 years. My collection has ballooned since then.

But even before, there are things I've been holding on to for 20 years. I've got a good amount of the usual long-cellaring types, Rioja, Barolo, Brunello, good Rhones, a few Bordeaux, Rieslings, etc. More and more all the time.

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RE: Cellar Count Milestones - 1/14/2023 11:25:42 AM   
desertwine

 

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Status: offline 		2022 - 335 bottles. Definitely some magnums in there. Too many paired tasting dinners.

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RE: Cellar Count Milestones - 1/15/2023 4:36:05 AM   
RedRedMoreRed

 

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2022 - 335 bottles. Definitely some magnums in there. Too many paired tasting dinners.

No such thing!

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RE: Cellar Count Milestones - 1/16/2023 2:34:58 PM   
grafstrb

 

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quote:

ORIGINAL: desertwine

2022 - 335 bottles. Definitely some magnums in there. Too many paired tasting dinners.

No such thing!


... maybe impaired tasting dinners?!?

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RE: Cellar Count Milestones - 2/8/2023 1:15:38 PM   
lockestep

 

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Status: offline 		Doing my annual cellar count dropped my inventory below 900.
The wave of January offers and a few local purchases have driven it back there.

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RE: Cellar Count Milestones - 3/11/2023 6:39:13 AM   
dad300

 

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Status: offline 		Just noticed that i hit 1000 bottles purchased since i started keeping track with CT. not going to look at how much ive spent though..:)

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RE: Cellar Count Milestones - 3/15/2023 7:42:12 AM   
annerk

 

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Status: offline 		I am back up to over 500 bottles--and want to stay around 400. Right now my coolers are overflowing full and I have five cases or so stacked in my office. I have dropped all "clubs" except Rasa, Cayuse, and my local wine shop (which I keep to support a small business).

I'll be in France and Belgium in June and plan on bringing back a dozen bottles of grower Champagne and nothing more.


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RE: Cellar Count Milestones - 3/22/2023 4:37:48 AM   
khmark7

 

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Status: offline 		I found the report on the new CT site (i still usually use the old CT) and the new report charts the size of your cellar over time and despite my significant reduced purchasing of booze the size of my cellar has continued to expand because I haven't been drinking all that much. I haven't had many get togethers either.

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RE: Cellar Count Milestones - 3/28/2023 8:49:48 PM   
eyewino

 

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Status: offline 		It isn't exactly a "cellar count" milestone, but I posted my 700th tasting note last night.

That doesn't mean I'm good at them, of course...

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RE: Cellar Count Milestones - 3/29/2023 5:46:39 AM   
StaceyK

 

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Status: offline 		It became a habit to increase my bottle count during covid cause I had a full house and made dinner and had wine almost every night. But now everything changed again. Since we all started socializing, Im finding that I would like to decrease the amount in my cellar. I no longer want to drink at home alone. The restaurants increased the corking fees to over $45 in some places so I no longer bring wine. I have been buying a bottle on their wine list or a glass of wine at a restaurant for dinner and being content. Taking a break from buying wine right now. Anyone else doing this?

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RE: Cellar Count Milestones - 3/29/2023 6:10:58 AM   
chrisrsprague

 

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From: Gorham, ME
Status: offline 		When most of my winter backlog showed up last week, it put my cellar north of 600 bottles for the first time. Happily though, I honestly haven't bought anything other than single digit numbers of bottles, locally, since Berserkerday. My cellar only holds 776 as currently configured, and it's already getting hard to organize, so I'm going to drink it down a little for now.

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RE: Cellar Count Milestones - 3/29/2023 6:38:17 AM   
khmark7

 

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Status: offline 		Still trying to get my cellar down to the next lower $$$$ of CT membership

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RE: Cellar Count Milestones - 5/5/2023 8:33:22 PM   
fingers

 

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Status: offline 		Not a cellar milestone but as far as tasting notes go, I recently passed over 100 master varieties. Up to 104 now

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RE: Cellar Count Milestones - 5/5/2023 8:40:22 PM   
recotte

 

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Not a cellar milestone but as far as tasting notes go, I recently passed over 100 master varieties. Up to 104 now


Well done, Bob! I'm at a lowly 59 in comparison!

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RE: Cellar Count Milestones - 5/5/2023 9:44:19 PM   
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ORIGINAL: recotte


quote:

ORIGINAL: fingers

Not a cellar milestone but as far as tasting notes go, I recently passed over 100 master varieties. Up to 104 now


Well done, Bob! I'm at a lowly 59 in comparison!


127….a bitof a surprise- I didn’t think it was anywhere near that

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RE: Cellar Count Milestones - 5/6/2023 6:31:35 AM   
eyewino

 

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Status: offline 		112 here - I didn't realize you could sort by such a thing until now. Pretty cool.

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RE: Cellar Count Milestones - 5/8/2023 8:19:10 PM   
mclancy10006

 

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