Average cost of a bottle in your cellar?

WINE TALK
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I just looked at my Cellartracker account, and saw that my average bottle price in my cellar is ~ $40.

Recently, a friend told me his average cost was close to $60 per bottle.

What’s the average cost in your cellar?

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Acquisition or replacement cost? For me, the latter is near $175.

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Not that the math is hard, but is there a way to have CT tell you this detail? I mostly look at average purchase price over time, marveling at how quickly that number has ramped up, but know that the average bottle price in the cellar must be higher.

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Around $50 for me.

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It’s an irrevelant number. I have a large cellar. Last night, I had a 1990 Ch. Beau. CdP that I paid about $20/ btl for upon release. My 2005s I bought cost about $80.

I took one of my 1982 Chat Marguax’s to a very special dinner not long ago. I paid $45/ btl with a 10% discount for buying a full case in 85 when they came out. I can’t afford the 05s to replace them. I have some 94 CA cabs that will blow your socks off, but in today’s dollar, I paid chump change.

My cellar is one thing. What I typically drink is another(irregardless of Melissa’s little snide remark toward me). Right now, I’m drinking a $15 bottle of Provencial rose. Lovely wine. I don’t cellar them. I go down and buy two or three at a time at the LWS. Same with my Marlbourgh Sav. Blancs and a host of other everyday wines. These are my normal drinking wines (60% of the time), but they don’t affect average cellar cost. Those dollars are eat up in younger Bdxs, CdPs, BdMs, Barolos, Burgs, and Oregon pinots.

So maybe if your 20 something or just starting out, the number may have a meaning. But to we old farts, it’s just doesn’t.

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Anyone know what percentage of questions asked on forums have an older forum member poo-poo the very question?

I mean, we shouldn’t talk about terroir, we shouldn’t talk about how much our wine costs, we shouldn’t talk about who makes white Pinot in Oregon, sheeet what should we talk about?

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Sorry Andrew;

No pooh-pooh here. I suppose a better answer is that it’s a very age centric question. Feel free to discuss it all you want.

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$32.33 average, lots of Oregon Pinot Noir’s.

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Around $150 for me [berserker.gif]

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In my personal cellar, about $200, most likely higher . . .

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Couldn’t be bothered to figure it out. Guess that puts me in the old fart…wait a minute…cougar sounds better… category.

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This has all the signs of deteriorating into a dick-measuring contest.

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Seeing all you have is 2 Buck Chuck, I guess you have no dick. [rofl.gif]

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Not to be snide, but that is not a word.

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While I agree with both statements, I think there might be some confusion between covariance and causality [rofl.gif]

j/k, low hanging fruit of the joke world, etc.

My average bottle price isn’t very high in the grand scheme of things, and I think it may, for the first time ever, be slowly coming down.

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385 bottles currently listed, avg bottle ‘value’ of $70.70.

I don’t think I have some of the regular daily drinkers in there.

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I would have no idea as I conveniently forget how much my wines cost.

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It’s too bad absolute quality is not knowable and could be correlated with the price average. I don’t mean scores.

Then the highest quality average with the LOWEST cost average would be the “winner”.

This isn’t remotely possible, but if it was it would make this info interesting.

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I’ve got no idea.