Most of the time, when we ask for five wines one has the most of, we look at what is in the cellar. But, in some ways a better measure is what comes out of the cellar. Obviously, this could be biased to wines you bought a while ago, but I still think it would be fun to list the five wineries where you have drunk the most wines from over the last year or several years (I am doing this based on what has come out of my cellar - not based on what I have drunk from the cellar of others or from restaurant wine lists, etc.). For me, my top five since I started using CellarTracker in 2014 are
Dublere
Truchot
Zilliken
Prum
Schloss Lieser
The first thing that I think of is what my wife and I provide for our guests who very rarely drink wine. Two bottles: Kung-Fu girl Riesling and M. Lawrence ‘Sex’.
As for my wife and I, The Magician by Row Eleven comes to mind. A very cool blend of two uncommon grapes.
Things have been more casual this past year-outdoor grilling.
Outdoor summer whites. Drouhin St Veran and Mondavi Oakville Fume Blanc (Costco deal)
Oregon PN Many, but St Innocent leads the way
Cal PN Sandler
Tuscany Felsina and Monsanto CCR
Piedmont Vietti (mostly Perbacco) and Produttori
Ridge Geyserville
Selbach Oster
Since joining CT, and totally unsurprising:
Domaine Brana (our year round full bodied house rose)
Domaine Triennes (our lighter house rose)
Keller
Cavallotto
Giacosa
Bachelet
Ratzenberger
I took out two producers where we sold a lot versus drinking. I like it that my top two producers by consumption are from one wine each.
Dehlinger (by a LONG shot)
Cabot
Scherrer
Ridge
Past 5 years, according to CT:
Jadot
Faiveley
Arcadian
Drouhin
D & R
For commonness…
Sonoma Pinot Noirs (we are Californiacentric.)
Cali cabs.
Bordeaux.
Sparklers.
Cali chards.
This is an interesting topic…so I’ll do my best to answer in a few categories that matter to me.
Overall
Chateau Musar (93 bottles) - Last bottle consumed in September 2018
Bergström (74 bottles) - Last bottle consumed in May 2011 <------------clearly an anomaly from being on the wine club back in 2007
Patricia Green Cellars (65 bottles) - Last bottle consumed in July 2018
Joh. Jos. Prüm (56 bottles) - Last bottle consumed in January 2018
Bartlett (56 bottles) - Last bottle consumed in September 2018
2016 - 2018
Chateau Musar (19)
Eyrie Vineyards (9)
Weingut Keller (6)
Domaine Guiberteau (5)
Patricia Green Cellars (5)
Sine Qua Non (5)
BY INDIVIDUAL WINE
N.V. Bartlett Estate Blueberry (24+ bottles)
N.V. Egly-Ouriet Champagne Premier Cru Brut “Les Vignes de Vrigny” (22 Bottles)
1994 Musar Rouge (21 Bottles)
1995 Musar Rouge (18 Bottles)
Cantillon Brewery Classic Gueuze (18 bottles) = BEER
2005 Nicolas Joly Clos de la Coulée de Serrant (11 bottles)
These days…
NV Bereche Champagne Brut Reserve
Jo Landron Amphibolite Muscadet
Pepiere Clos des Briords Muscadet
Paul Pernot Bourgogne Blanc
Muri-Gries Lagrein Rosato
C&P Breton Nuits D’Ivresse Bourgueil
Vincent Gaudry Vincentgetorix Sancerre Rouge
Felsina Berardenga Chianti Classico
Montesecondo Chianti Classico
Oddero Barolo
Go-to cellar defenders.
RT
Bedrock
Sojourn
Anderson’s Conn Valley
Saint Jean du Barroux
Carlisle
Pepiere (various muscadets)
Lauer (Barrel X is my house Riesling)
Thivin
ESJ Rocks and Gravel (PA state system got a bunch on some sort of close-out)
Texier CdR
Produttori (Langhe Nebbiolo and Normale)
Baudry
Patrice Rion
Loring and KB (still drinking down overstock from Parker board years - mostly w/ non-wino guests)
Cheap California cabernet sauvignon and merlot 1994. All my old Bordeaux sits forlorn.
Donnhoff
Donnhoff
Donnhoff
Donnhoff
My most repeated, five daily drinkers over this year - not including weekend and special wines - are:
Baudry
Thivin
Coudoulet de Beaucastel
Chave Mon Couer
Sociando
Since 2004 (out of 4592 total bottles)
Carlisle 7.1 %
Loring 2.2%
Rosenblum 1.9%
Girardin 1.7%
Quilceda Creek 1.5%
2018 only (out of 316 total bottles)
Carlisle 11.7%
Walter Hansel 4.1%
Tablas Creek 3.5%
Matrot 2.5%
Girardin tie with Dehlinger 2.2%
Waiting for my burgundies to mature
Schäfer Fröhlich
Wittmann
Huet
Burlotto
Produttori
Over 60 % are white
Wouldn’t it be lovely - sigh.
Best, Jim
Carlisle
Myriad
Quivet
Rivers-Marie
Peay
Zinfandel
Pinot Noir
Cabernet Sauvignon
Syrah
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2014 white burgundy (lots of V. Dancer Les Corbins and Lamy St. Aubin, as well as various BB’s from Ente, Roulot, and Chantereve)–can barely drink anything else without first popping one of these
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Aged, often back-filled red Burgundy at all levels (Bachelet, Jadot, Fourrier, Mugneret-Gibourg, Burguet)
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Barolo (lot of 09’ Burlotto Monvigliero recently)
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Bordeaux (Calon, Beycheville, GPL, especially recently)
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Cali and Oregon Pinot (Rhys, Peay, PG, Thomas)
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Bedrock and Sandlands (whites and reds)
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Cali Cab (Myriad et al, Greer, DiCostanza)
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Lopez de Heredia (whites and reds)
In descending order of frequency