I’m still early in my wine journey, but I have way too much wine to have explored so little.
Lots of riesling, good amount of champagne, very little else. I should cast a wider net, but I keep going deeper rather than wider. Not sure this is the wrong approach, but when I step back it’s a little hard to rationalize.
I love drinking Champagne. Probably the type of wine I am least critical about… I like most of it. Cheap entry level stuff to high end bottles.
But for some reason a rarely buy any for my own collection.
I have refused out of principle to buy a single Leroy rouge because they are “too expensive”, while I chase various other cherries at similar price points.
And your buddies are super understanding and helpful and don’t give you any shit about it.
They truly are the best
For all I have, and all I’ve bought, my wife still somehow signs for the majority of my packages during the work week.
Can’t explain how she hasn’t held an intervention or smacked me over the head with a frying pan
Let me help you with that.
Riesling and Champagne are undeniaably good places to begin your journey. And going deep before casting a wider will leave you in a perfect spot for the later stages of the journey when you gravitate back to a narrower bandwidth of wines you truly love, that just happen to be Riesling and Champagne…
Marcus, you’re not that old. I’m still buying Chenin at 76.
I think you misread the question. Your answer may be the one thing that makes the MOST sense in your wine life. It certainly does for me.
This is me, too. I have wines back into the 1990’s that I haven’t even tried yet–because I’m “saving” them, I guess.
Some wines, although prices have gone up, I justify buying because they are great value (champagne these days). Others go from $20 to $25 or $25 to $30 and I think “that’s way too expensive”.
Another is the number of inexpensive bottles that take up storage space (cru Beaujolais I’m looking at you). Financially it does not make sense to cellar them but I’m hoping for magic in another 5-10 years.
Ha. Yeah its complicated.
When I am deeply absorbed in my “wine life”, and all my thinking and moves within it seem so sound, and reasonable, and maybe even brilliant to me, a “look” from my wife causes me to be puzzled and, at least momentarily. to consider that this is not true. At the instant the look occurs, it makes no sense, a few moments later it makes sense.
I actually just opened a Goodfellow Pinot Blanc earlier this week, so you’re helping in more ways than one!
I have a lifetime of wine, am increasingly allergic to wine, am in a dry spell right now because of other health issues. And still buying wine. And traveling to a wine region next week for a trip that was to be food and wine centric.
I still think the fellow who hasn’t tasted Burgundy yet wins
I love Chenin, and I’m still NOT buying it at 76.
That caught my eye, I could easily come up with a dozen more.
Dan Kravitz
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I’ve been drinking wine for 40 years and still don’t like Pinot Noir- all roads don’t lead to Burgundy. My road has taken an expensive turn towards Champagne, which I never expected.
Cellar Tracker shows that I have more wine now that at any point in the past, yet I constantly struggle with picking a wine to drink to “tonight.” 
(similar to Todd’s dilemma)
That hesitation before grabbing what was a $60 bottle that is now four figures, but then returning to I bought it to drink it.
Holding great wine for that super special occasion, now that I have matured as well with fewer days ahead than behind.
To me, reaching into the cellar to pull a wine is like choosing which of your children to sacrifice!
My bigger issue is managing the ying and yang of staying physically fit and drinking wine. I don’t own one of those sleep detectors but having recently read that topic, it really makes me consider more ying than yang.