You purchased more wisely.
Not all my defenders aged well (09 beaujolais, Peppiere).
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This pretty much describes where I am.
I loved the exploration phase, which lasted about 15 years. Then I settled into a comfort zone and no longer enjoy tasting multiple wines at once, preferring to spend the evening lingering over one or two wines. I still like trying something different now and then.
I’ve sold off significant chunks of the cellar 3 times over the last 40 years, each time to correct for over-enthusiastic buying. We still have more wine than we need, but not to an absurd degree. We’ll have wine about 4 days a week but a bottle typically lasts 2 days if it’s just the two of us.
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What 09 Beaujolais did you buy that aged poorly? All the top names that I’ve had in recent years are delicious and nowhere near falling apart. (Whether the investment is worth the reward is a different story. I personally didn’t cellar any, because I have limited space and I’d rather age Burgundy. But the 09 Beaujolais I’ve tasted is all still very delicious)
I worry this type of thing is Phrenology by different means, but it does resonate. I value variety and a changing routine and would rather try a new wine than revisit a good one.
Lmk when you want to jettison that nasty Beaujolais and N. Rhone 
Very, very few of those posting here have cellars mostly devoted to these wines. They are just the ones people get most excited to post about.
That what divides us from many others here. There’s no right and wrong – just different preferences.
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FOMO is the subtext of a A LOT of threads here.
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I find this is why blinding is SO helpful.
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As Victor Hong once memorably posted, “Wine collecting is defined as the interactive confluence of Obsessive-Compulsive, Hoarding, and Affluenza disorders.”
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Ahahaha.
You missed some interesting blinds in August
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Me too. Those seem to be great at this age.
I mean good cru Beaujolais like Lapierre, Thivin, bottles that were $20-30 back at the time.
Yes, that sounds right to me. They are fun, but, as we know, so are a lot of the others:)
The only one that improved was thibault liger- belair moulin a vent la riche…
The worst performer Coudert Clos de Roillette Fleurie .
Thivin Cote de Brouilly was a little harsh compared to youth.
I still have a case and a half of the better names - hopeful for the Jadot Chateau St Jacques.
I has 5-6 cases at one point. Just didn’t get the same pleasure from them for the most part after 2019. And they are among the youngest wines in my cellar.
It’s also some of those posts that can be the impetus of a change in focus and purchasing habits. I never understood the allure of champagne until I started to read the posts on this site. Sarah, Blake and many others describing their love of the bubbles peaked my interest and, thanks to that thread, I ended up getting bit by the champagne bug!
Only had a few bottles before in my collection for special occasions but now champagne represents 10% of my collection. Safe to say that this change (for the better) would most likely not have happened given my age, tenure in collecting and consuming wine and established buying habits.
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Coudert goes in and out, almost like Burgundy in that sense. So I find it trickier to time/predict. But if you have the 09 Tardive, I think you’ll have some good drinking ahead Even the 09 regular. I’ve had the 09 of both in recent years and thought they were absolutely delicious.
Or I suppose you can just sell them!
Champagne is probably the best category to get into later in your curve. A lot of it is pre-aged and most things you buy you can enjoy right away.