A case and a half of Egly rose which we caught on an inventory when moving out of storage in 2018. That was probably an inaccurate entry in the first place, or we shared a few 6-packs with friends and family on purchase and didn’t record. Or remember.
The good news:
Our inventory reduction plans may be further advanced than we think . . . . . .
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I think I share Maureen’s situation. I have been doing batch-wise inventory reconciliation by zone of the cellar. The last batches were spread across Q2 and Q3 of last year and there were more than 250 MoPD wines flushed out of the system. Most of those are due to me forgetting to note what we had for dinner, since I try to avoid the computer after dinner. I’ve gotten better about jotting down when I give a box of wine away, but that used to be a problem source too.
Cheers,
fred
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Well, I drank one of those Clos des Goises with you, Neal.
Oops! Does me telling mean you won’t open the other with me?
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Aww baby wines!
A mixed 6-pack of Louis Remy grand crus from very good 90s and 00s vintages. Bought it at auction to learn about burgs with age. I have learned well: you can’t rely on them.
I keep wondering about bar code scanning. Apart from the cost of a scanner there’s the small complication of work flow with printing and affixing the labels to purchases. But then with the scanner strategically located in the cellar it’s much easier to log wines out. Even in the middle of a dinner.
At least that’s the theory! Can any say how it works for them. I know I have a large missing block which I’m about to purge for the first time ever. I’m bad at logging wines out.
Same. According to Eric LeVine, that’s the method of choice.
I just snap a pic of every bottle I drink from my cellars. At some point, I go back to my phone’s gallery and record them all in CT.
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Ouch, that was an eye opener of a report to run. Over the years 170 bottles have been categorized as “missing or presumed drunk”, and the most painful top 5 are:
2010 Coche Meursault
2004 Coche Meursault
2007 Raveneau Blanchot
2005 Raveneau MdT (2 of these)
1989 Pichon Baron
The horror! The horror!
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I have barcodes on every bottle. I still routinely forget to scan them, especially when I take them to a trip or event, but even when I pop a bottle for dinner. But I’m sure it would be worse otherwise.
Mine appears mostly as a death by a thousand cuts, total 407 bottles M&PD. I’ve CTed since 2009, and have done 3-4 whole cellar audits, and it gets worse each time. My last audit was late December, 2020 and 278 bottles got removed from inventory, M&PD. That impact was softened a bit because I also added 74 bottles that were “Present But Presumed Purchased While Drunk” during that audit.
There are a few desirable bottles missing over the years, but my most common missing wines are those from favorite producers that a) we drink a lot of anyway, just don’t consistently record it, and b) maybe entered duplicates or bad info to start with due to inconsistent methods of recording wines on receipt. I know my methods for club wines is especially inconsistent, because sometimes I’ll record when ordered, sometimes when delivered, and apparently sometimes both.
Bottom line… I Suck at CellarTracker.
On a side note, and because it was annoying, my actual “worst” “missing and known drunk” bottle was a very nice bourbon that a friend from Tennessee had gifted me. I live in Washington, so that particular bottle was difficult, if not impossible, to replace. A family member invited some of their friends to our home for a BBQ, and we didn’t monitor the booze intake closely enough and the bastard(s) drank a whole bottle of the good stuff. We haven’t allowed them back, and now make sure appropriate measures are taken to secure any sensitive stuff. We normally put out plenty of “community wine/booze” at gatherings (which might also contribute some to the M&PD tally), but that one time some asshole took advantage.
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