Poll: Do you ever worry about drinking all the wine you own?

WINE TALK
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Missing option: Is this a trick question?

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I don’t think of it specifically in terms of not being able to drink all my wine before I die, but having more wine than my age and current consumption warrants is something I’m aware of, and it’s why I’ve cut way, way down on my buying.

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My cellar isn’t terribly large, so I’m less concerned about drinking all the bottles and more concerned about a palate shift. I don’t really want to drink Cabernet much anymore, but I suppose the benefit of time will help them out. If I continue to focus on other grapes, the occasional aged Cab will be a nice change of pace.

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Nope, I worry about drinking it too early. I have around 900 btls and I really have to work at not drinking my Burgs, Bdx, NR, Piedmonts and Brunellos too soon. I like my wines ideally between 10 and 20yrs old. I’m not into ancient tired wines so my goals for btl age are doable. I don’t have many thats even 10 yet. So I drink a lot of earlier dirnking wines to keep my hands off my primo stuff, as much as possible.

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My cellar is almost all Burgs, and I have way more wine than I can ever expect to consume. Probably 2X. In my case, it makes no sense to pass the wine along to my kids, except as a financial transfer, so my intent has always been to match the cellar to my consumption in my lifetime. But sometimes the buying just gets out of hand… [snort.gif]

Nice problem to have, I know. But at times I feel that I’m a slave to those bottles. I need to work hard to stay on the comsumption curve. Screw that. So I am selling some, actually in the process right now of getting that done. I’ll still have too much wine, but just a little too much, and that will be a more comfortable situation for me.

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My wife worries about it, I don’t. We have a son with a good palate, I have a brother who likes wine (but gave up drinking in favor of riding a bike - go figure), and a wife who will probably out live me. So, not worried. Besides, if we stop buying tomorrow, we only have five years worth of wine.

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My only worry is that I won’t pay enough attention to all of the sectors of my cellar, and that they might become discouraged. When I open the door, the wines all perk-up and start waving their hands. “Pick me! pick me!” “No, not that one! Me! me!” It’s deafening. If I don’t pay enough attention, they start to sulk, and close down, or worse. I tell you , it’s nerve wracking. That’s all I worry about. Constantly.

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I stay awake at night worrying if I will still be around long enough to see my wines mature, I worry that I am purchasing too much, i worry about asking my wife to do another drop-off at the off-site storage, I worry about when I should open the older bottles that I have recently purchased.

Then I drink one and the worries subside for a while.

To whomever else said that they worry about it all the time --Thank You – I am not alone! [cheers.gif]

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My problem is I’m massively overweighted in California, and should be buying more Bordeaux/Burg(God forbid)/Italian or other wine that will last until my son is of age. I feel confident I’ll drink my trophy Cali cult wines, but it’s the massive amount of $30-60 stuff that I’ve stockpiled that I’m worried about that won’t make it that long…almost all Cab, Pinot and Syrah. And now every time I go into the cellar I just want to drink a Carlisle zin…and I don’t have that many. sigh

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Sounds like a trip to Scottsdale is in order Ron. I know plenty who will help. [cheers.gif] I hope your doing well.

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Flawed poll. You ask if people worry about drinking all of their wine, but then your questions assume that everyone worries about drinking their wines. You don’t have a single response for people who DON’T worry about this; thjose people that buy what they consider to be the right amount.

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If you are not worried, you do not need to answer unless it is to rub it in to the nervous nellies of the group. neener

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As often said: a cellar is a multi generation project as planting walnut trees, and somebody has to start.

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I’m with Rainer. I hope to instill interest and an ethos in my son that allows him to build upon what I start and pass it forward to the next generations. I have indirect control over that, but ultimately it will be left to him to disposition as he sees fit unless he gets me to sell it all or give it to somebody else before I go.

Cheers,
fred

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Flawed poll. AWWWK! Flawed poll.

The correct answer is ‘no’. No explanation or detail necessary.

Dan Kravitz