On your Cellartracker homepage it says Wine Consumed and Wine Purchased. Clearly this is since you created your Cellartracker account. What are your stats looking like? Mine are below.
Wines Consumed - 4369
Wines Purchased - 6068
I think the purchased number must include my cellar when I initially uploaded to CT. On top of that I was somewhat an early adopter of CT.
Both off a bit. I have 10 or 12 cases of wine stacked up that I’ve been lazy and haven’t entered, plus 100+ bottles of vintage port (mostly 375s) not entered. Was just telling my wife last week that we need to set aside some time to get caught up on labeling and logging.
I also keep a section of diamonds for things like riesling, non vintage port, tokai, Moscato and other ready to drink stuff that I never run through CT. Plus usually have a couple mixed cases on the floor that I use out of the box without entering in CT.
Need to get better habits and run all through to better track what we’ve consumed and liked/not liked.
I ordered some Weinboxes yesterday to put most of my vintage port in, to both free up some rack space and better deal with the port that’s in boxes stacked on cellar floor.
But some of the data is bad. How did I drink a 2005 Pax in 2002? In January of 2014, I consumed 814 bottles. I think I built a cellar and relocated bottles so I (maybe that was when Eric did me a favor) treated everything as a missing bottle and then re-entered it in the new individual bin location. BUT even if I take that away, it’s still a lot of wine. The scary statistic is the current value of the wine I have drunk since joining CT in 2006. I do not know if it is available but I am afraid to look.
It is unfortunately. All the way on the bottom of the consumed list. Alternatively, if you don’t want to scroll all the way down, summarise purchases by any category and those $ statistics will appear at the top of the page (on the new version that is, in classic it’s always at the bottom)
I find it reassuring that the value of my current cellar is higher than what I paid for everything I’ve purchased, including what I’ve consumed. That means I’ve been drinking for free.
That’d be mathematically impossible in CT as for it to be marked consumed, it has to be purchased first. At most you could have consumption=purchases, but then you’d have no wines left in the cellar
I guess I wasn’t thinking or writing clearly. What I really had in mind was more on a current basis, ie a cellar running down, as opposed to lifetime basis.
(One of my problems getting some of my older wines into CT is not being sure when they were purchased. I’m using Jan 1 as a flag that the year of purchase is a guess. )
I’ve heard of lawsuits involving doctors where their credit card statements were brought in play trying to demonstrate an alcohol problem. Anyone heard of anything similar involving CT data?
I would think it would be pretty easy to discount the actual data entry because whenever I get sloppy about recording and I “true up” a section, it will show multiple cases consumed on the same day. Or, if there was a party I supplied wine to, there might be 1-2 cases marked as consumed that day.