Picking up allocations during our stay in Piemonte is not good for my month, ends with + 26 bottles for July. August will have to better … must be better …
A good month.
In - 2
Out - 26
Helps to host a very large dinner party.
Year to date:
In - 28
Out - 96
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Success once again Chez Kirschbaum/Read!
In: 18
Out: 48
Net: -30
Supplying all the wine for an extended family week at the shore helps.
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drank 8
bought 12
I got Kobayashi’d.
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Bad month.
+19 for the month
+52 for the year
BUT WAIT!
I’ve been reminded that bubbles don’t count!
-4 for the month
-55 for the year
That’s much better! 
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This month started out so promising. Drinking at a nice pace and buying nothing. Then Friends went out of town and I started traveling. Then offers started rolling in.
Out 6
In 24
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Definitely neglected this thread and it’s showing…
Started the year at 748 and just hit 783
+35 YTD
There’s one more Napa allocation to get through and then limiting my purchases to whites and champagne for the rest of the year. No really…
Was away for 1/2 the month but then got sucked in by a Zachys sale.
BOUGHT: +26
CONSUMED: 20
NET: +6
SINCE I STARTED in March 2025: +7
IF I do an actual inventory of my wine, it shows signficantly less bottles than what I show in Cellar Tracker.
Does that count as a cellar inventory reduction plan?
Okay, back home in the U.S. and able to drink from my collection. My numbers for July 2025 are interesting:
July 2025
In: 84 bottles
Out: 32 bottles
Net: + 52.
Not good, but will be able to improve my numbers going forward if I can keep my buying at bay!
Looks like last time I posted here was Jan 1, 2023. I had a car accident on Jan 13, 2023 and spent the next 7 weeks in Harborview ICU. I survived, recovered, and seems like I celebrated by buying wine.
My CT tracked cellar in early 2023 was 890 bottles. Today it is 1581, almost 700 more. I was out of cellar space at ~800.
But since I decided to live, hopefully another few decades, I need to find a way to slim back into at least my normal cellar size.
2025 I have overall done “better”
2025 YTD
Purchases - 151 bottles (around 96 of those were BD16)
Consumed - 222
July 2025
Purchases - 12 mixed case from MTN/ART
Consumed - 8 slow wine month with 2+ weeks spent in Mexico drinking only cerveza.
Hopefully this reporting will help me do better through remainder of 2025. And avoid BD17.
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Maureen is the final adjudicator for this question! I include “inventory” as a category in my monthly updates. Usually it means the bottle I went looking fo has been consumed but the inventory was not updated.
So yes you can!
Right. My count starts with what I have recorded in CT and if, when looking for something I realize it’s no longer there - or I showed three bottles but only have two - I “consume” it and record it as “missing or presumed drunk.”
| July 2025 | Count |
|---|---|
| Beginning Inventory | 99 |
| Bought | +7 |
| Drank | -6 |
| Ending Inventory | 100 |
Well, it’s a ‘milestone’ for me that I’m up to 100 bottles now
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I have consumed 44 bottles this year and purchased 10. Actually, I have only purchased 10 since last September. I have been trying to reduce the cellar for a while due to space and my wife has stopped drinking wine in the last year, so I just stopped buying for a while. Naturally, I found other things to spend the money on.
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I knew negative was not going to happen in a month with a Bedrock release, but I was hoping for low single digits. Instead, +10 for July.
+94 YTD
Time to implement austerity measures.
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I continue to bring down my inventory
Consumed 39
Purchased 18
Big family party coming up in August and expect to reduce a lot more this month.
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July: 15 out, 12 in - net 3 decrease. Back on track… sorry VinDependents! Have to stay disciplined now.
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Another bad month:
46 in
12 out
It can only get better…
sadly i regressed with a trip to Paso/Los Olivos buying daily drinkers… plus Kobayashi and Carlisle.
Added a net 26 in July, and year to date have reduced by 40