Top 10 Producers in your cellar?

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1029

I don’t make too many good ones lol. I convinced my significant other to make a detour from Paris to actually visit Champagne for my 30th birthday. We ended up staying at the Selosse estate and we ordered a bottle of the Initial. I’ll never forget her reaction haha. We basically decided right then that this had to be ‘our’ wine, for life’s biggest special occasions. I immediately started looking for whatever I could get my hands on. I only have a couple of bottles but we’re gonna make them count!

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1030

Wow! It’s been a hot minute since I’ve heard this producer thrown out on the board. I really enjoyed William’s wines when I had them in the past…looks like my last purchase was in 2015 with the 2012 and 2013 vintages. I may have to try and source a handful of current bottlings.

1031

I like William’s approach and style. I met him at a rhone rangers event years ago. Such a nice guy. He just blew out some library wines over the holidays at absurd prices (i.e. 2014 Roussanne @ $12 and it’s delicious!).

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1032

Not huge amounts of any one producer, but:
Salon
Beaucastel
SQN
Rhys
Shafer
SE
Montrose
Taylor
Joh. Jos. Christoffel Erben
Y’quem

1033

1.) Andremily
2.) Pride Mountain
3.) Bevan Cellars
4.) Myriad
5.) Realm
6.) Salty Goats
7.) Racines
8.) Turnbull
9.) Fratelli Alessandria
10.) Dunn

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1034

Never realized how stylistically incoherent my collection is.

  1. Albert Boxler
  2. Chavost
  3. Marcel Deiss
  4. La Pelle
  5. Scarecrow
  6. Vignobles Levet
  7. Krug
  8. Egon Muller
  9. Amevive
  10. Valdicava
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1035

2026 update

1 Georges Noellat 9.2%
2 Pierre-Vincent Girardin 5.0%
3 Hubert Lamy 5.0%
4 Jean-Claude Bachelet 4.2%
5 Dujac 4.2%
6 Paul Pillot 3.4%
7 Morey-Coffinet 3.1%
8 Keller 2.7%
9 Tenuta San Guido 2.3%
10 Francois Raveneau 2.3%

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1036

Jan 2026 version

Domaine Fourrier 6.0% Bottles (241) Gevrey, Moines, CSJ, some Griotte
Joh. Jos. Prüm 5.2% Bottles (210) Pile of 19s mostly
Alain Hudelot-Noëllat 3.7% Bottles (148) RSV, Riche
Joseph Drouhin 3.3% Bottles (134) Amoureuses, Griotte are the gems
Louis Jadot 3.3% Bottles (131) Haven’t bought much in a while. Ursules, CSJ
Domaine Berthaut-Gerbet 2.7% Bottles (108)
Domaine Henri Boillot 2.7% Bottles (107) Mostly Mouchere
Domaine Dujac 2.4% Bottles (97) CSJ/Roche
Bouchard Père et Fils 2.4% Bottles (95) Lotsa Le Corton, and lately buying Chevalier
Domaine Charles Audoin 2.0% Bottles (80) Marsannay Favieres people!

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1037

D’Issan
Kutch
Bouchard
A Tribute to Grace
Domaine de la Cote
Di Costanzo
Cattleya
Rhys
Pavelot
Produttori

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1038

triggered a memory of Tower Records and their Desert Island Discs where people would list their 10 Ten Favorite albums and I would buy something off their list if we had similar favorites…

sorry for the thread drift but thanks for the memory!

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1039

Just a little shuffling in the past year

de Négoce 12.5% Bottles (118)
Goodfellow Family Cellars 8.2% Bottles (78)
Cam X 6.1% Bottles (34) / Pending (24)
Tercero 4.9% Bottles (46)
Domaine Huet 3.9% Bottles (37)
Rasa Vineyards 3.3% Bottles (31)
Gérard Boulay 3.0% Bottles (28)
Joh. Jos. Prüm 2.5% Bottles (24)
Sandler Wine Company 2.5% Bottles (24)
Elena Fucci 1.8% Bottles (17)
Rhys 1.8% Bottles (17)
Domaine de Chevalier 1.6% Bottles (15)
Delmas 1.6% Bottles (15)
DuPuis 1.5% Bottles (14)
Nicola del Negro 1.4% Bottles (13)
Domaine Bernard Baudry 1.4% Bottles (13)
Extradimensional Wine Co. Yeah! 1.3% Bottles (12)
Domaine de la Cotelleraie 1.2% Bottles (11)
WeatherEye Vineyards 1.1% Bottles (10)
Maison Harbour 1.0% Bottles (9)

1040

Spent many hours at Tower Records in Philly second only to 3rd St Jazz and Rock

1041

I assume you mean the one on south st? I used to take the train downtown as a kid to go there and repo records on weekends. There was a MASSIVE one in NE Philly on the Roosevelt blvd that was closer to my house and I’d go there a lot too

1042

Only minor movements in the top 10:

  1. Ronchi di Cialla
  2. Milos
  3. Enderle & Moll
  4. Stein
  5. Falkenstein
  6. Keller
  7. Burlotto
  8. La Ca Nova
  9. Henrik Möbitz
  10. Weiser-Künstler / Sandri

Wines from 288 different wineries (47 with only 1 bottle)

With the inventory reduction ambition, the main movement are hopefully a result of consumption in 2026, with modest purchase of favorites and perhaps a few minor explorations here and there.

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1043

Interesting to see my small cellar after a couple of years of collecting. Way less Beaujolais than I thought (gamay only 6%)…I guess I drink it all.

  1. Goodfellow
  2. Pierre Girardin
  3. Cam X
  4. Henri et Gilles Buisson
  5. Littorai
  6. Alain Hudelot-Noellat
  7. Domaine de la Pepiere
  8. Kelley Fox
  9. Coudert
  10. Baudry

Anticipate more Beaujolais and Loire in the future…really more everything…

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1044

Updated top 10 of most consumed producers (not most in inventory), since Sept ‘17. Only the first is over 2% of the total, at 2.1%, and only the top 5 are over 1%.

Ca’ Rozzeria
Bedrock
Ravenswood
Isaac Fernandez
Turley
Felsina
Grand Nicolet
P. Usseglio
Chevillon
Castello di Gabbiano

The above is by bottle count. Below is by total value

Chave
Chevillon
Beaucastel
SQN
Pontet-Canet
Taylor (Fladgate)
Ridge
Lopez de Heredia
Guigal
Bedrock

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1045

Haven’t done this in a while so it was good to know.

  • Ceritas
  • Bruno Clair
  • Vajra
  • Hudelot Noellat
  • Rivers Marie
  • Chappellet
  • Jouan
  • Lafarge
  • PdB
  • JP Guyon
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1046

A lot of movement this year. My buying is becoming more focused as I continue to dial in my palate. I am not purchasing as much Fourrier as I once was (no longer backfilling), but still love the wines, and will continue to purchase new vintages. I anticipate Morgen Long will clime in to the #1 spot as Seth’s wines strike the perfect balance for my personal QPR - they sit on the same plain as PYCM from a quality perspective IMO. Speaking of PYCM - this is a gap in my cellar that I intend to fill. The big five for me heading into 2026 are Paul Pillot, Raveneau, Dauvissat, PYCM and Mugneret Gibourg.

  1. Domaine Fourrier – (14.8%)
  2. François Raveneau – (10.8%)
  3. Morgen Long – (9.2%)
  4. Vincent Dauvissat – (7.9%)
  5. Paul Pillot – (6.9%)
  6. Walter Scott –(6.9%)
  7. Mugneret-Gibourg – (4.2%)
  8. Kelley Fox Wines – (3.5%)
  9. Denis Mortet – (3.1%)
  10. Latour-Giraud – (3.1%)
  11. Lamy-Caillat – (3.1%)
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1047
  1. SQN (by a mile)
  2. Kobayashi
  3. Fingers Crossed
  4. Maybach
  5. Realm
  6. Kinsman
  7. MACDONALD
  8. Jasud/Beta
  9. Aubert
  10. Bedrock
  11. Chave

Looking back on an inventory from 5 years ago Kobayashi, Fingers Crossed, Kinsman, MACDONALD, JASUD/Beta and Chave are new to top 11

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1048

This is a fun idea. My current cellar state looks like:

  1. Nervi-Conterno
  2. Giacomo Conterno
  3. Ceritas
  4. Mayacamas
  5. Hirsch Vineyards
  6. Lopez de Heredia
  7. Trediberri
  8. Bartolo Mascarello
  9. Cappellano
  10. Occidental

Maybe I should shift my buying to something other than Piedmontese and Californian wines :smiley:

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