This thread, What are your Top 5 Champagne Producers, and the replies raise the question of how many bottles of Champagne do we cellar. I’m not interested in broadcasting the contents of my cellar and assume that others also prefer to keep their holdings private. So, how about an anonymous poll?
I don’t mind being identified. It took me several years to re-balance it once I fell over for Champagne and so the work is worth sharing. Champagne now is just about 75% of my cellar. That seems about right to me, and I don’t foresee my total cellar getting bigger or my ratio here changing.
I think it is also interesting to share the stat of what percentage of one’s entire cellar is Champagne. I think it is vague enough as long as we do not mention the exact bottle count, which is what the poll suggests. My Champagne holdings are 20.9% of my entire cellar, which is way up compared to a decade ago which was probably closer to 4.0% at that time.
Unfortunately it makes up only about 5% of my cellar. I love it, my wife likes it, but most of the people we hang out with on a regular basis are not that interested in it. Sad.
Champagne is currently 30% of my cellar. Assuming my pending sale to Chambers Street Wines is completed, Champagne will grow to 50%. Over the past year or so, each case of wine I pull from my offsite and consume tends to be 10/11 bottles of Champagne and 1/2 bottles of still wine, with exceptions of course.
Champagne is about 10% of my cellar. I love it but live with people who think it is for special occasions only. I think Monday is special. As is Tuesday. Etc. To be a little more fair, overall the house has a slight red wine bias.
Champagne is exactly 1/3 of my cellar, although it’s what we drink 90% of the time (other than what we open at the charity dinners we host). It’s time to balance the cellar.