Wait what?
We are supposed to DRINK all this wine??
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Iām always amazed by the posters Whoāve bought 1000 bottles of dN and drank half of them. If LTS had been offered sooner and had stayed around longer I might not have received any reds yet.
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Really? Why is that amazing? I am not sure I understand your statement.
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There is a small, but not insignificant portion of this group who enjoys the fun of sleuthing and getting the perception of a great deal more then they enjoy having or drinking the bottles of wine. We are the people who order from garagiste and never take delivery. Within that group is another group that really donāt drink any big reds that are less than 7-8 years old and prefer them 10-15 years old so thereās no motivation to take delivery. Once I drank 12 or so different lots and came to the conclusion that the wines were great values I mostly stopped opening them.
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Lot 414 RRV PN, is an offering that I would like to get 2 cases, but, I hit my 30 case/year self imposed quota with #435.
First world problemsā¦ā¦
Heads up: Shipping NOTICE : I have a case in transit and it is NOT showing on my Shop App per usual as in the past.
FedEx email notification works just fine however. FYI.
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You bring up a great point and this is absolutely me. I keep up with this thread (sometimes a day or two behind), but thatās about it. I think time is my biggest enemy - with the little ones Iām lucky enough to find time to pop a bottle or two, let alone read threads and post.
I would love recommendations for some threads to check out. Any that have recommendations on managing purchasing while keeping the wife happy would be well received here.
With LTS ending, how much would you pay to store de Negoce wine? Iām sure this may vary based on case, but just looking for a comparison.
@ToddFrench Thanks so much for chiming in on this thread! While you are at it, I have a couple of random questions about the site stats 
ā At the top of this thread, it says 279 users. Whatās the definition of user, pls? Any person who reads any content over the last X days, or only those who interact in some way (like, comment, etc)?
ā The FAQ section of WB says the overall site has 3.0k MAUs. Is it really that low? Are lurkers accounted for in that 3k?
Thanks 
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@Adam_C I wonder if you could subtly mark the bottles and see if the get shipped out again. Curious as Iām waiting on my 400 from a shipping fiasco.
I just went through this exercise and am paying roughly $1.50 per bottle per year to store offsite.
I live in Atlanta and found a U-Haul storage facility with 58 degree temp controlled wine storage. I have lots of dN wine there, but also lots of āname brandā wine. It was the cheapest that I could find in this big city with wine appropriate temp controlled. I had to do it with the onslaught of fall wine shipments after LTS ended. Divorce was the alternative, haha.
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Three things in life are certain:
- Death
- Taxes
- No matter how many years go by, this thread will still be visited by the OG dN haters who just canāt help themselves.
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Well, I think I fit that category. I donāt have a ton of space to store but my wine fridges hold all the āBigā reds for a later date as I really want to enjoy the finished product (maybe 100 bottles). Everything else that I purchase under 15.00 threshold is in the queue to drink at will if it is ready. My thought process is that I can afford a 40.00 bottle of wine but I wouldnāt drink them that often but if I could get it for 12-15 dollars it would a daily enjoyment.
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$15 x 365 days = $5,475
$40 x 365 days = $14,600
Simple Arithmetic helps with my resource management. 
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I have about two years of bliss ahead of me. 
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Users never include lurkers, just logged in registered users. In this particular metric, it refers to the number of users (registered, logged in) that has posted in that topic.
As for MAU, I donāt have other data than what is provided, but Iām also unsure what constitutes āactiveā, i.e how that measurement is determined. Will try to find out if it is important to you
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Not needed. All good. Just random curiosity of the overall metrics.
Thank you!
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I only do dry January in an odd-numbered leap year.
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Thatās a very good price. Here in Jersey Iām paying approximately $3.50 a bottle. But itās worth the peace of mind and the wifey not knowing how much wine I purchase.
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We all did it just about right. We now have enough wine to carry *us happily until 2025 when Cameron will once again rise as a Phoenix with the projected grape/wine glut arrival:
- *PS: the last āBlack Friday salesā cases coming in today with Lot 218 Napa Syrah, Lot 250 Rutherford Cab Sauv, Lot 175 Red Mountain Cab Sauv and Lot 227 Russian River Cab Sauv. These are going to be a bitch putting away, but as I said, ~ no more orders needed now until 2025.
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1974 was a Napa vintage of the century IMHO.
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