How does your wine drinking compare with your expectation? Too much? Not enough? Goldilocks?
Frankly I’d like to drink more, but life and beer keep getting in the way. At best I’m at 2-3 bottles/week. Any time we’re doing a dinner that’s remotely spicy, I’m reaching for beer, My wife doesn’t drink so much, so I’m generally on my own to finish a bottle, which is usually a 2-day affair for me. Part of this is a function of having 2 small kids, which means we don’t go out much, which again limits wine consumption. My friends aren’t generally into wine as well, which means if I’m out with them it’s also a beer affair. Anyone else in a similar situation?
Aside from events like holidays, we’re lucky if we get to 1 bottle on the weekends. I like to be relaxed and not in a rush when enjoying a nice bottle, and with our busy schedules, life just gets in the way. It’s actually fine by me as I’m still building my cellar and at an avg bottle cost north of $50, I’m not looking for a several hundreds of $ per week wine habit.
Controlling my diabetes sugar level has me reducing my wine consumption drastically. I’m down to a bottle+ a week and along with my weight loss I have halved my sugars and my A1c is now a normal 6.2 down down from 8.3.
This is my problem during the holidays. I kind of justify it to myself that spending hundreds per week is okay. I probably need to cut down to my normal about 1-2 bottles per week after the New Year
Yes, beer gets in the way, but that’s a good problem. Interestingly, at a wine execs’ conference in Napa awhile ago a speaker identified craft beer as their biggest competitor. Article
Nowhere near enough. I simply don’t get together enough with friends to drink wine and during the week will be lucky to consume a bottle by myself. I never overindulge for health reasons, either.
I wish my friends and I could/would get together once a week just to open bottles and drink. No restaurant meal, no fancy dinner, just a weeknight/working next day dinner with a bottle or three of wine to be shared by everyone.
Not as much as I would like and considerably less than I used to. For health reasons, two years ago I stopped drinking for 3 months and lost 40 lbs (215 to 175). When I went back to drinking daily the weight came flying back. So now I just drink on the weekends. I have a lot of daily drinkers in the cellar–CdRs from 2009 and 2010, Southern Italian reds, Spanish reds, etc. that are proving to be superfluous as now that I am limited to a few bottle per week, they tend to be more special.
Probably 3-4 bottles per week with most wines lasting two days for us both. In terms of cellar reduction I need to drink more, but beer has gotten in the way.
That, with the exception of no kids, is my situation to a tee. When I was young and time was free, the sky was the limit. Now, I’m lucky if I can squeeze in two bottles a week.
Too much. Living in Napa there are too many tastings, dinners, invites etc. Wine is always involved and it becomes more of a challenge setting days aside to not have any wine.
Nights off from wine, either for beer or non-alcoholic do help refresh my taste for wine, and drinking too frequently can make it all a bit samey.
I think I’d like a little more variety / same volume, but as it takes us 2-3 nights to polish off a single 75cl bottle, apart from drinking halves, that isn’t going to happen. Best thing is to get enough offlines in to satisfy the tasting geek in me.
This is us almost exactly. I still usually consume some form of alcohol most nights, but unless we have guests, we now average less than 2 bottles of wine a week at home. We have two small children, and my wife is breastfeeding our newborn, so she usually limits herself to a half glass or so. We’ve been enjoying paring off-dry whites with spicy food – mostly Riesling – but I still probably drink beer more often when we go spicy.
By comparison, in the B.C. era (i.e. before kids), we probably averaged closer to 4 bottles of wine per week. I wonder if we will ever go back to that…
We do not have kids and our regular work day consists of work, workout, have dinner together and enjoy some wine. We consume between three and four bottles a week between the two of us. I usually have a little more than my wife. One weekends we may have wine at lunch and dinner depending on time and location of our weekend activities (usually road or mountain biking, or hiking). I love craft beer and have some nicely aged bottles in the cellar but it affects my stomach too much so I limit it.
Having said that, my wife is on vacation with her mom and aunt and my employees are on vacation this week so I am drinking two beers a day to take maximum advantage of the loneliness. I am a crazy man.
The holidays are my reason I can now buy more wine and try to stay under 300 bottles. I’m trying to stay between 1-2 bottles per week. Any more and I would have issues.
In a perfect world I would drink much, much more.
I love the tastes, the aromas, the food pairings, the stories…
Cost, alcohol and calories would not be issues in that perfect world.
Even so we do wine with dinner nearly every night.
Not too much. I get to taste a lot during wine dinners with the local gang one or two times per month. Apart from that, I probably enjoy two bottles a month at home (my wife doesn’t drink much, but I’m not going to open a bottle just for myself–that’s what beer is for).
And we may go out to a restaurant once or twice per month. Sometimes we bring wine. Sometimes we order wine. Sometimes we order something else.
December was a heavier wine month than others, though, because of so many events.
Lately, unless we are entertaining, we’ve become a little bit tea-total.
Perhaps seasonal fatigue, kids and chauffeuring them around, late-ish work days. I need a little “up” energy with which to approach wine to appreciate it properly. Tasting when I feel blah or in the doldrums makes the wine seem blah.
But, as my Dallas Cowboys usually say, “Just wait 'til next year!”
I would love to but for health reason I try to limit myself to 2-3 bottles a week. There are just too many wine regions to explore, even though after years of consuming wines, I am comfortably settling in mainly Bordeaux, Burgundy, and northern Rhone.
For the past 6 months I have cut back my wine consumption to maybe one or two bottles a month; not by choice. However, this month I have probably gone through 1-2 bottles a week much of which has been champagne. Ideally, I’d like to be able to drink 2-3 bottles a week but work inevitably gets in the way of fun. I’m really looking forward to retirement!
