I think it would be a good idea for any berserker with over 2,500 bottles to sell a couple hundred bottles on the commerce section to fellow berserkers. It would be ignorant to think that you will drink all these bottles in your lifetime, especially since we’re all addicted to purchasing more wine every month.
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It may be ignorant to expect it, but we’re sure going to try!
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Depends on how old you are, your yearly consumption and with how much age you like your wines. 
If you are 40 years old, drink 200 bottles a year and love your wines with a few decades of age, 2500 would be a too low number to have in the cellar (unless you have unlimited financial means and are willing to buy mature wines at any price and all around the globe).
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I have about 250, and it has spiked a bit lately as I’ve expanded into regions which I didn’t have much before. Tastes evolving.
I’m curious how others handle the moment a friend finds out you have an extensive (from the perspective of a non-wine enthusiast) wine collection. Personally, with the exception of one or two friends who also have obsessive personalities I usually feel slightly embarrassed.
I try to avoid saying how many bottles I have except to some wine nerd friends. Otherwise, I just tell people I have enough to share.
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I feel the same way. It makes me squeamish to talk about numbers, though people ask all the time. Of course, we entertain quite frequently and anyone is welcome to a cellar tour, if they are interested, so it’s not like it’s a huge secret - just one I prefer not to discuss in specifics.
One really unpleasant related story - I had my team from work over and gave them a cellar tour. One of the young guys, without my being aware, really, took an extensive video of the whole thing (I thought he was just shooting a pic or two, which people these days seem to do with everything), and proceeded to send it to the whole trading desk the next day. I was furious, and had to respond to all sorts of comments from the guys on the desk about a subject that was really none of their business. It was very uncomfortable.
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Why not? I love those moments of seeing their surprised/puzzled faces. 
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Wow, Sarah, that is a huge breach of trust!
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LOL! I’m in a similar boat.
I’ve been flippantly telling my wife “700 bottles plus or minus” for the last 5 yrs….
We had some of her coworkers over for dinner & she was giving a bit of a tour. In the cellar one of the guys asked # of bottles & she repeated the 700 figure. He says, “sure seems like more.” I nervously laugh & give him the eye. A couple minutes later while still in the cellar he remarks, “I just counted 100 bottles in this one rack & there’s more than 10 of those racks!”
Me- “You’re killing me, Smalls!”
Everyone laughs & someone got the “Sandlot” reference effectively & thankfully changing the subject.
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Thanks. He didn’t understand he’d done something wrong.
Ughhh. That’s the worst Sarah, i feel for you! Im very close with my team and many of the people at our company but I’m still uncomfortable talking about ‘how many bottles i have’, or showing pics of my cellar (people always ask). Id be REALLY pissed if someone blasted out videos of it to the entire company. Such a bad move and completley unacceptable.
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The cellar’s part of your house. Would he just take a video of your house and show it to friends/co-workers without your permission? (This is meant to be a rhetorical question, because the answer to me is so obviously no, but the key here is that you said he is very young. The young’ins seem to think if they haven’t filmed it and shared it with friends or social media, they haven’t experienced it).
Grumpy middle-aged man signing off…
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You make a lot of assumptions here. Aside from the obvious: you don’t know how old people are and what their consumption rate is, some people do plan to pass wine down in the family.
Yes, I’m aware I was full of assumptions. I’m really just messing around and trying to get the older guys to give up their fine wines to some of the younger berserkers for a good price.
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Not at all. Guess i am one of the younger ones on this board. A millennial. And i completely agree. If people invite you into their private home, you put your damn phone down and respect the people who invited you. If you find something very interesting and you want to take a picture (and even share it!) then at least be polite and ask the host first.
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Pre-Covid I somehow found a way to keep wine qty stable for a few years.
Then Covid hit, then I joined WB shortly thereafter. It’s fair to say there was “acceleration!” Not all attributable to WB, but that doesn’t stop me from blaming WB for all of it.
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To the spirit of the thread: between the closet and wine fridge, looks like my max capacity is around 400ish bottles right now.
It’s known at where I work that I have a “cellar”. I get asked for pictures all of the time, and I have to explain each time that it is a lot of boxes on the the floor of my huge walk in closet (which happens to stay between 55-65 degrees for most of the year).
I am now at the point where I just need to stage a picture of the Shippers/Instacrates with my motorcycle leathers and gear thrown on top of them. Then make some snarky comment like “This is how aged wines get that leather taste.”
The next annoying question that always seems to come up is the inevitable “What’s the most expensive bottle you have?”
My 644 bottles include 383 wines, 124 deuces and 225 singles, so yeah. At least I am slowly trending down in quantity!
I have found that the Berserkers with the largest cellars, even those who aren’t “older” and/or “guys,” will give up their fine wines to some of the younger Berserkers for free - all you have do is post something saying “I’ll be in town and I’d like to set something up.”
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Every. Single. Time.
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