Just over 600 now 
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That’s funny. I was just eyeing this earlier today. Good to see the positive reviews here!
In the immortal words of Phil Gramm, more than I need, but less than I want. (Though he was speaking about guns.)
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Voted 3000+ but just barely counting pending.
Sadly I have learned to love your approach Sarah 
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Get it!
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After peaking at over 5000 bottles 7 years ago and I am now within spitting distance of getting below 3000. I needed to sell over 1k bottles to get down to this level.
At 3k bottles I am comfortable with the quantity vs consumption vs acquisition vs (hoped for) life expectancy.
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Even with all that DN? No professional baseball team storage locker like @MatthewT?
Definitely skewed toward small quantities. Counting each year+cuvee as a unique bottling, for only 5% of those do I have 4 or more bottles, and the deepest holding is 7 bottles (twice). But I am lining up some decent verticals (and horizontals).
For me at least that’s correlation more than causation. I started getting serious about collecting and while doing research found this forum. I was going to buy more either way, this site just helped a ton when targeting what to buy.
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600 in total.
500 offsite.
100 at home.
That is also my limit. So right now i need to drink/sell as much as i buy. It is not easy haha.
Hopefully i will buy a house in a few years with more possibilities for storage at home.
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I have about 400 and that’s my max for now. When I move in a few years we will see what happens.
That’s a rounding error. 
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While many seemed concerned about running out of storage space or enough lifespan to consume what they have I get concerned when I take the average cost per bottle in my meager collection and realize I could have a very nice pre owned late model Porsche 911 or a brand new BMW M4 in the garage.
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Yes, but it would taste terrible.
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But the Le Cache can be a handsome addition to a well appointed house. The other units look like… wine fridges.
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Interestingly we have a le cache credenza in the dining room and my wife would’ve much preferred a couple eurocaves.
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I’m in the 1501-2000 slot and am trying real hard not to eclipse it. I have not purchased from a single mailing list release so far this year. In total have only purchased maybe 2 cases and most of it was Champagne to be consumed not cellared. Kutch “save this date” just hit yesterday though and Bedrock Farmhouse is coming so… but I’m having a party tomorrow, we’ll try to pare down the inventory a bit.
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Good occasion for this joke which I drag out every couple years:
Civilian: How many bottles of wine do you buy per year?
Wine Geek: Usually about 250
Civilian: How much do you pay per bottle on average?
Wine Geek: About $80
Civilian: And how long have you been collecting wine?
Wine Geek: About 20 years, I suppose.
Civilian: So a bottle costs $80 and you buy 250 bottles a year, which puts your spending per year at approximately $20,000. Correct?
Wine Geek: Correct
Civilian: If in one year you spend $20,000, not accounting for inflation, the past 20 years puts your spending at $400,000, correct?
Wine Geek: Correct
Civilian: Do you know that if you didn’t buy so much wine and such expensive wine, that money could have been put in a step-up interest savings account and after accounting for compound interest for the past 20 years, you could have now bought a new Ferrari?
Wine Geek: Do you drink wine?
Civilian: No
Wine Geek: Where’s your Ferrari?
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My only problem with this poll is how wide the categories are. I’ve reduced my cellar by about one third I would guess (I don’t use cellar tracker but I can tell by the empty spaces in my racks) and I’m still in the same category as I was the last time this poll was taken.
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