If you drink a bottle of wine each day 7500 bottles is 20 years worth. I would guess that you would need to do a lot of entertaining to warrant this size cellar.
I seem to have the same affliction. 
I agree, I’m at about 2400 and I’m still have 10+ years for the best of the burgs and Bordeaux I purchased on release to mature. Probably 20 for the Barolo. I also buy across every region in the northern hemisphere. I pretty much ignore the south.
Well, my ambition is to reach that total by age forty. Thereafter, most of the wines for the long haul that I purchase will be for my daughter and any future children, and I’ll aim to replenish rather than expand (though I realize compulsive behavior seems to set in).
But the problem, of course, is that when you are young enough to purchase wines with the intention of cellaring them for 30 years, you can’t afford them.
Ah to be young and have money. . . .
I have neither youth, money nor a 7500 bottle cellar. Sadly, I’m just blessed with good looks . . . .
Buying wine for the kids and their kids . . . well they will be certain to use the money if you invest it for them now, but may never have any interest in the wine. My son has a glass of champagne when we dine together but I am quite certain will never even think to drink the stuff after I am gone. Off to auction it will go.
It’s a British thang, Neal. My son just wants my cash, now and later. He does dig some of the art, but I’m sure he’ll sell that after liquidating my stuff and cremating me. He has no interest in my wine. He prefers fine craft beer like Nattie Lite.
For me, it really depends on how mature my cellar is. If most of the wines in my cellar are ready to drink, I dont think that I would find a need for much more than 750 bottle capacity. Since my cellar is so young and I’m buying wines on release and letting them mature before I drink them, I am thinking an ideal size to be around 2500? I’m currently 33 and trying my best to slow down the purchases as I used to buy basically everything that interests me. My buying practices are now much more focussed, and sadly(luckily for my wallet), the number of bottles I’m buying annually is slowing down - mainly due to the availability and rising prices of Burgundy.
You are way ahead of me. I did not start until I was 46.
Sounds like you figured out the “fewer but better bottles” at a young age!
This is exactly where I am. Trying to have consumption exceed acquisition never seems to work, though.
If it comes to that, hard to think of many investments which will appreciate more than fine wine—or investments that I am more competent to make. Roumier is going to be valuable, whether the world’s reserve currency is USD or Yen…
Fine wine, sure, but I have the palate of a yak
Just the opposite here - over the past 3-4 years I have decreased greatly my purchase of age-worthy wines (I have plenty of those). Buying more villages wines.
I am 46 and have stopped buying BDX, bought some 16s but not many. 15 is my last burgundy and northern rhone vintages as well.
by the time everything arrives that I have already paid for I will be around 3000 bottles. at 150 bottles a year that is enough aged wine to last me until my palate goes the way of senility.
Wow that fully half of respondents considered the ideal size to be 2000+ bottles. I guess if money were no object at all, sure, but that’s substantially more than I would ever have or could even handle given my drinking habits.
I’m sure if I were wealthy I would discover new ideals though…maybe entertain bigger and also be more comfortable with owning bottles that weren’t optimal for my tastes, just for the sake of variety.
At 50 I am already reaching the point where I have greatly reduced purchases and am questioning new vintages. 2014/16 seem like just my style in Bordeaux but doubt I will purchase in either.