More inventory geekiness - how many orphan bottles in your cellar?

580 wines where I have only one bottle (or one bottle left from a larger purchase). I was actually shocked that the number was so high.

Mine is about 500, but it is hard to tell from CT, at least the way I did it. I sorted by quantity, but it included wines where I had only one of one size, e.g. if I have 6 750s and one mag of a given wine, it counted the one mag as a wine of quantity one. So maybe it is closer to 400.

208 total inventory - including pending.
63 individuals.
52 multiples, which suggests an average of 2.78 bottles for these. But I have 18 1/2 bottles of one specific wine, so otherwise it would be 2.44 bottles of any multiples. That makes sense, as I buy a lot in packs of 2 or 3.

Try summarizing by INDIVIDUAL WINE. That will weed those out.

Dang it, why do you make it so easy Eric?? If only you could make it automatically put them INTO inventory when I buy them. That would rock champagne.gif

Lot of orphans here – about 300 x1 plus 160 x2. But I very rarely buy more than four of anything.

I’m at about 19% orphans. I find it difficult to open the last bottle, so these tend to linger.

Not yet. However, I have a dream, and a pretty simple one, of opening up API’s that retailers and winery fulfillment houses can use to push data into your account in CT. It will take a few years to catch on, but my goal is to make it value add for all of us (consumers, retailers/winery/trade, and CT/me).

You must know about the phone app that OCR’s labels and finds the wine? I just saw this in action myself recently. And maybe there is a way to scan bar codes from bottles with a phone too. Once a wine is identified, your customer enters a quantity and hits the “Update CT” button. I’m sure this must have been thought of before. But I’m truly new here.

The app is Vivino, and it is very nice. It is not actually OCR but rather pure image recognition through a 3rd party engine.

Those are scenarios we will look at as we flesh out our own mobile experience: http://www.wineberserkers.com/forum/article/1216682/alpha-preview-of-the-new-cellartracker-mobile-site

Wow, it’s almost like you wrote this sw! [worship.gif]

So the number is 488 including a few pending.

Of 420 bottles in the cellar, 372 are orphans. As many above have already related, I too generally buy 1, rarely 2 bottles of anything. I hope for good karma vis-a-vis cork taint. Too many wines, I love a catholic but eclectic range of wines, and I’ve been ITB for 34+ years.

  1. I am a bad dad, most of my bottles are orphans. Still learning so wide is better than deep for now.

I don’t think we should call these ‘orphans’, as that denotes something bad. Why don’t we change the term to something cute like a ‘onesie’ or a ‘bold soldier’ and change the discussion?

90+% orphans. I just like trying too many different wines and would rather spend my wine budgetbthat way than on cases of stuff and limit my variety.

369 out of 997 wines are singletons in my cellar.

I didn’t even attempt to try to figure out which of those were greater than singletons when purchased.

I have no issue buying a single, even to cellar, but think my typical purchase is 2-4 bottles of a given wine.

Cheers,
fred

341 out of 1161. There are too many wines I “must have” to satisfy the collector addition so a bunch of singles is the result.

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neener

21% of my cellar is composed of singles.

Only 6%. I tend to buy in 3s, 4s, and 6s, and most of the wines in my cellar are not at peak to my taste.