How many different wines do you taste each year?

[Jon_Drummond]

60-70 bottles at home, and then at monthly tastings with 9 others there are usually 12 or so bottles opened and tasted. Maybe attend a wine lunch once every couple of months, with 6-8 wines opened to share.

So, say 150-160 tasted all up is a reasonable guess.

Tasting groups really increase the numbers.

[Otto_Forsberg]

Normally 1000-1200 per year, down from the 1500-1800 when I was in wine retail.

[Joseph_Grassa]

Opened 239 different at home and that’s just about everything I had, besides drinking a bunch of those multiple times.

[Otto_Forsberg]

Can’t wait to see Otto respond to this thread.

Missed this comment but hopefully didn’t disappoint.

[Phil_T_r_o_t_t_e_r]

Can’t wait to see Otto respond to this thread.

Missed this comment but hopefully didn’t disappoint.

Hard to disappoint when it’s over 1000 . But I think you would win hands-down if the question was extended to:
“How many different wines do you taste each year and comment on CT?”

You had a pretty strong Chappaz streak going recently!

[Otto_Forsberg]

Hard to disappoint when it’s over 1000 . But I think you would win hands-down if the question was extended to:
“How many different wines do you taste each year and comment on CT?”

You had a pretty strong Chappaz streak going recently!

Lol It does take some extra effort, but at least I think it’s still fun!

And I still have the streak going on - I’ve yet to report from one wine more!

[Keith_A_k_e_r_s]

Since I retired from wine sales I’m down to100 to 150 per year. When I was working retail there were days when we were looking for wines to feature in our holiday mailers that we tasted 100 wines a day for a week or more. I recall tasting 150 cab-based wines over two days or 70 Pinot Grigios on one day. It’s a tough job, but someone has to do it.

When trade tastings are a thing again, you’ll be able to get back to your old numbers and won’t have to deal with the screaming idiotchampagne.gif



In 2020, I was around 1000. I’m probably around 6-800 this year with no trade tastings. I’m 2019, I easily did over 2500 and was probably close to 3k. It’s hard to say how 22 will be as I have a very long, non-wine related trip I’ll be taking, but if tastings start happening more come March, 2k will be pretty easy to do

[John_Glas]

Used to be a lot including bigger tastings but lately around 250 a year.

[Matt_Mauldin]

I write between 300-400 notes a year on CellarTracker. In a normal year working in wine and attending wine tasting/events, I’d guess it’s probably double that.

[William_Jones]

How do you search for that information in CT? Preferably listing different years as different wines
TIA

[Shan_A]

Used CT to summarize my TN by time (i.e. year). 2019: 225, 2020: 200, 2021: 125.

[Keith_A_k_e_r_s]

How do you search for that information in CT? Preferably listing different years as different wines
TIA

When I was actually putting all of my notes into CT, it can be sorted by year. Seeing as how I’ve been a lazy bastard, it’s more of an estimation and knowing how many notes generally fit into the notebooks I keep

[Scott_Brunson]

I estimate ~500

[J.Vizuete]

501 notes so far this year. I log nearly all of my bottles in CT and leave a note the majority of the time (except in rosé season, no phones in the pool!). I suspect I tasted another 100-150 wines in group settings that didn’t get a note, so imma say 6-700, which is consistent with a still upward trajectory the last few years that probably will peak soon.

[David_Baum]

Gotta be over 1000. Get together most Fridays with friends and usually at least 10 different wines and often 15-20. Last night at local wine bar on a typical Wednesday night probably had tastes of 8-10. Never mind wine country trips or going to big tasting events. Annual super bowl party has close to 100 wines. Could be as high as 1500 some years

[John_Davis]

I would guess between wine groups/dinners, industry stuff and home 500+?

[Dan_Kravitz]

I’m ITB but working part-time now, and travel has been limited because of this pesky virus.

At peak, I was probably at 2500+ a year.

This year will be about the same as last year, 500+.

This does not count blending trials.

Dan Kravitz

[YLee]

2
Good wines and bad wines.

[Ryan_W1hera]

When I was head buyer for a few wine shops and really aggressive about tasting with vendors, going to industry tastings, and taking a few tasting trips each year I’d say it was at around 3-4000 wines per year for a few years. That’s a lot and I definitely didn’t keep it up after stopping.

Now, I’d say it’s in the 500-600 range including some vendor tastings for the Ancient Wines Club and lots of fun nights.

I do and don’t miss the days of tasting through 120+ bottles of Gevrey Chambertin + 1ers + Grand Crus at the “Le Roi Chambertin” tasting in a single afternoon… Enlightening but exhausting!

[P_a_u_l_Christensen]

According to my CT records, (783 bottles of) 299 different wines in the last 12 months. That’s essentially wines drunk at home or taken to private parties. Plus, I guess maybe 50 more at bars and the very occasional tastings that have happened.