Totally over the top. I lost control during COVID when I was just sitting there with no vacations, no house renovations, no need to get a new car and the cellar EXPLODED!
Now I have inherited another 1000+ bottles. WTF!
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I’m showing 836 in CT. That does not count about 100 bottles combined between Roses (which I never enter) and some recent additions not yet entered.
Just for fun I counted singletons. I tend to own a lot of them because I want to try everything. Out of my 836, 135 are singletons. 29 doubletons, a dozen triples. Anybody else that skewed towards small quantities?
Dan Kravitz
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100%. It’s all around fantastic.
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25-30 years ago when I was just starting, we had a 24-bottle wine rack in the dining room. I would keep that full with near-term daily drinkers, and had my core collection in cardboard cases in the basement (probably 10 or 20 cases or so at the time). My grandparents were over for dinner one night and they had heard from my Mom that I had taken to stockpiling wine. Naturally, they assumed the 24 bottles they could see in the dining room rack was the collection - and complimented me on how large it was.
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Very few of mine are more than 3 bottles of the exact same wine, including vintage.
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Exactly the opposite here. We have very little interest in one of anything, almost never buy singles except a few special bottles that are out of the comfort zone pricewise. If we have one of anything, it’s usually because the case is almost gone, and we try to drink those as soon as we become aware, as that’s one bottle taking up a double slot!
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BD > VD
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I find it amusing that the poll starts with 500 bottles (0-500). 500 bottles of wine is a LOT of wine for most people. Whenever people ask me how many bottles I have, and I tell them, they tend to get this blank look on their face as they try to process the number, which is clearly out of their reckoning, as if they had asked me how many cars I own, and instead of answering 1 or 2, I had answered 20. (N.B., in terms of this poll, my holdings are not an outrageous number, almost modest.)
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We’re closer to the Dan/Dave approach. Per CT, I have 158 different bottlings - 8 of those are 4 or more bottles. Then there are 7 triples, 43 doubles, and 100 singletons. With more budget/storage/etc., I’d probably start buying in larger quantities, but for us, that would probably looks something like purchasing more three-packs versus singles…I love the exploration aspect of wine - in a way that leans towards geographic and variety diversity moreso than following particular bottles through time.
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The only advantage I can see to my negligence in adding new wines to CellarTracker is that when backed into a corner I can now honestly say “I have no idea”
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I am annoyingly way more likely to open bottles I have more of, then more reluctant to open the last one. So even as I usually buy in multiples, I then trend towards one of each.
I’m not defending that as a great approach, just being honest.
I guess when I have one left (assuming I liked the wine), I imagine friends I’d want to share it with, flights I’d like to put it in, etc. so I hold on for that. Even though 90% of the time it’ll never end up happening that way.
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100% the same, sir.
Let’s do a Finalbottletacular. Everyone brings the last of something. I pick the charity. (Sorry, @Frank_Murray_III 
)
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That’s actually a really cool idea. Charge everyone a small fee, donate all that to charity and then share the bottles.
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Too many. And, now that temps soared above 80 degrees today, the few cases I have in my garage are no longer safe. With two completely-stuffed at home wine fridges, and two off-site lockers a smidgeon short of stuffed, I gots problems.
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LOL! I walked with 26 bottles when I went to the store a couple days ago, and I don’t think many here would even bat an eye at that … of course, we’re all lost to the disease and terribly disordered, so … whatcha gonna do?
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There’s about 10-20% of the poll respondents at the top end of the range that are being real quiet in this thread.
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My wife knows how many I have. Our bank accounts are all joint ones, too. I’m in the 1001-1500 category.
As I’ve stated elsewhere, her question is never about how much money I spend. Am I going to be able to drink it all? I turn 69 in May. It’s a fair question!
I have three winery bottling days scheduled in the next month. (No, I’m not Ken Zinns nor do I aspire to bottle as many days per year as him! 
) That means I’ll be bringing home 2-3 cases as payment.
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Generally speaking, the “more” people have the less they talk about what they have. So your observation comes as no surprise.
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I know, which is why I am avoiding incriminating myself as well.
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Smart. 
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