What's your BIGGEST WINE MISTAKE ever?

Could be a bad purchase, a lemon of a wine cabinet, a missed purchase, whatever…just curious.

Buying lesser wine because it was such a good deal and then only drinking two bottles from the case. I’d prefer to buy two great bottles than a case of party wine.

Perse’s Pavie

Not buying more great '82 Bordeaux.

Not discovering CT earlier.
Second biggest, discovering Full Pull.

I once bought mad dog 20/20

Reading Leve’s posts on the Squires board…

+1

Not buying enough 1999 and 2002 Burgundy when I started collecting in 2007, when it was still sorta on the market. I did buy a lot of 2005, mostly blindly based on Burghound scores, knowing absolutely nothing about producer or vineyard aside from the fact I liked Burgundy. I’ll know in 10 years if I made the right choices I guess.

You really want to know? OK – not buying the four bottles of Ch. Latour a Pomerol 1947 for $25. Not buying the second bottle of Ch. Gruaud Larose 1918 for $38. Not buying the rest of the 1961 and 1962 d’Yquem halves from the cellar of the little old lady in Anacostia. Not buying Ch. Lafite Rothschild 1959 for $40, even though Larry Bender told me how good it was right out of the magnum sitting in his convertible. Not buying the other eight bottles of Ch. Latour 1961 for $34. Not buying all the 1971 DRC Myron Norman had for $25-30 per (“Oh, the 1972 is so much better…”)

Glad you asked?

Shoulda, Coulda, Woulda, oh well!

Driving through Fargo ND and not buying all the 1997 Solaia they were selling for $69 a bottle.

k.

I see a lot more regrets in this thread over opportunities missed than misspent funds.

Listening to a certain gouty critic about '93 red Burgundy.

But you still have a couple of bottles of 1993 Leroy grand crus and Dugat Griottes in your cellar, right?

2000 Lynch-bages $39.00 sure seemed high at the time, bought some, not enough.

+2

During hurricane Irene I had some water in my basement that I was afraid might reach the wine cellar which is up a step from the rest of the cellar. I was moving a small rack of mags with the mags in it like an idiot and I broke a mag of '82 Ch. Sociando Mallet. Doh!

Just spending too much money on wine. We have met some great people along the way though. I wish I had spent about half the amount of money on wine and bought a couple more guitars. We are happily drinking down the cellar down to about 1/3 what it was three years ago.

As a previous poster had alluded too, ignored the concept of “daily drinkers”. That is usually a code phrase b retailers for crap they have to unLoad.

Buying too much wine before I truly had a good idea of why I liked, instead of what I was “supposed” to like.