31st December here in NZ. With tonight’s wine selected can report in.
Dec
Bought: 7
Sold: 0
Inventory: 0
Drank: -30
Net: -23
2025 Annual report
Bought:127
Sold:-38
Inventory: -11
Drank: -289
Net: -211
Comment: “Inventory” is kind of a bullshit category tbh. For the 11 bottles in 2025 that were missing presumed drunk, there must be at least the same if not more bottles in the cellar that are not recorded in my inventory. Oh well…
have wonderful 2026
Brodie
Looking at what will get opened over the next two days the month will turn out “OK”, despite the 23 bottles brought home from dad’s cellar.
In: 23
Out: 24
+293 for the year. Down 60 bottles from last year.
-265, +/- any extra bottle I may pull tonight or tomorrow.
Germany trips added close to 40 bottles.
Revised total with Sami-Odi releasing before new years. Thanks Fraser!!
+305. Down 48 bottles from last year.
Spending down 36% or so with no Bordeaux EP buys and a severe Napa drop off.
The crypt is your wine now, regardless of where it resides or who paid for it. The best form of accounting would have been to have added it in and subtract it now as you drink it. Alternatively, if, since you inherited it, you feel that the acquisition was not your doing, you could fictionalize the whole amount into something like wines bought and consumed at restaurants. The way you do it now, they are an odd, chimeric, short term item. You count them when you bring them home, and then subtract them when you taste and pour them out or drink them a short time later.
But probably Maureen needs to rule on this. issue.
I am also still selling a bit of it here and there and giving the money to mom, so it’s not completely dispositioned.
I’m on call through 1/2 so I won’t be opening anything before next year.
8 in
15 out
Down 7 for the month
577
Also, as I have (surprisingly) aged since this thread began I am making a slight adjustment to my desired cellar size. It is now 475-575. Good luck for the new year everyone!
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Fought myself to a draw this year, down 9 bottles versus a goal of 75. Hosting a couple of big parties in December helped enormously. Trying to get down 75 next year!
New to this thread. Seems like right time to join in - just finished annual roll-up of activity.
IN = 118b, OUT = 258b. The mix is Red - 43 in and 170 out. The white is 75 in, 88 out. I am struggling to reduce the pile of old reds. Whites reflect a great year for Oregon chards.
I don’t like to count and I’m not very good at it so I brought in a consultant to figure out this year. I’ll get back to you in a couple days when he’s finished his work.
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net minus 16 for the month
YTD -77
Positive trends is purchased 7% less bottles than 2024 and consumption/reduction up 35% YoY, though half of that was because i sold 8 cases to a friend who can’t have wine shipped to him.
Goal for 2026 is to reduce the cellar by 100 and by more champagne!
My December totals including a bottle for dinner as well as an obligatory Champagne selection, and where the only saving grace is that I don’t regret a single purchase.
BOUGHT: +78
OPENED: -34
NET: +44
SINCE I STARTED in March 2025: +117
Since I know what I’m bringing to tonight’s festivities, here are my final 2025 results
December
In 15 Out 35
Year
In 257 Out 331
Net -74
I wanted to do better but at least I’m under 1600 now in the cellar.
Closing out the year with another successful month, and year.
Consumed: -50
Added: 20
Net: -30
Overall, we purchased less this year than any since getting married and combining cellars. More important, it was the second year in a row of reduction, and we didn’t even sell any this year.
Every time I think about buying something, I think about what’s downstairs already, and I’m usually able to resist.
Final report for 2025 with a couple chilling for tonight.
Purchased: December - 28 Full year 2025 - 213 (over half, 121 of those, were BD16 wineries, mostly on BD, but some follow-ups)
Consumed: December - 45 Full Year 2025 - 373
Net: December - minus 17, Full year 2025 - minus 160. Good trend, but really need to drop at least 5 more clubs and show more restraint on BD17.
December: 14 out, 15 in - net 1 increase. Almost… until some 07/08 Lagier Meredith dropped in my inbox.
Q4: 43 out, 60 in - net 17 increase, 5.66/month.
2025 grand total: 179 out, 209 in - net 30 increase, 2.5/month. Resoundingly failed to reduce the cellar inventory again, but better by a bottle per month than last year. Making new wine friends helped!
Regions in order of consumption:
California
Oregon
Württemberg
Mosel Saar Ruwer
Rheinhessen
Açores
Alsace
New York
País Vasco
Piedmont
Washington
Champagne
Kakheti
La Rioja
Savoie
Tuscany
Vayots Dzor
Happy new year, and a healthy and successful 2026!
Down 11 for December due mostly to gifting and discovering inventory mistakes. But a month is so small. What are the bigger trends?
2019 +193
2020 +315
2021 +183
2022 +83
2023 +85
2024 +57
2025 +38
Clearly, I have an excellent trajectory to reaching net zero in just a year or two. Actual reduction may one day be a reality! It’s like the Promised Land just on the other side of the D’Nile River.
Going in the right direction again, drank 9, bought 4 in December.
But the year was a total failure:
Bought 164
Drank 109
Drank most of one last evening, and opened another this evening.
Purchased four in Fort Collins today.
Backsliding . . . .
December - zero in, 23 out
2025 - 60 in, 168 out
December, 6 out, zero in.
Year, 50 out, 22 in, 6 of which were .375s.
So 19 in, right?