My cellar is currently 55% white/Champagne, 41.5% red, and 3.5% rose (mostly Champagne).
Just reached 500 bottles in my cellar after 3 years of collecting.
For 2027 I will try to purchase mainly Champange and Chablis.
- Domaine des Tours - Château des Tours
- Domaine Labet
- Dureuil-Janthial
- Pierre Gonon
- Jean-Claude Ramonet
- Jean-François Ganevat
- Maison Glandien
- Gaspard Brochet
- Domaine Roulot
- Guilbert Gillet
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While it may have become obvious in the notes posted in response to yours, I would like to reiterate that the question being asked pertaioned to inventory, not consumption. While I inventory ~30 cases of whites - Rieslings, Sauternes, and Chardonnays, we drink a lot more whites that were bought for current consumption and are not entered into my inventory system. Thanks for provoking the subject.
Lighthearted, yes, but still thought provoking. Good points you and others make, and I understand the thought behind. But for the sake of discussion, I’m going to quibble a bit with one of them. There’s a shock, lol.
I think of a cellar, a collection, if you will, as serving purposes beyond the central function of aging. My cellar is largely there to give me options on hand, across regions/varieties/producers so I never have to go out shopping if I decide to make a dish that wants an albarino for pairing, or if I have a craving for champage. If there is low correlation between what you drink and what you have in the cellar, wouldn’t you be shopping all the time? And then what you want might not be easily available. I think I’d wake up in a panic in the middle of the night if I didn’t have at least a few cases of champagne right downstairs to make me feel safe. 
I also suppose I don’t consider 2-3 or even 5 years to be aging, particularly. I can’t think of many well made white wines that start to take on what I’d term mature flavors within that time frame. Champagne, too, even NV - 2 to 5 years is nothing.
Of course, if you truly only drink red, or mostly red, that’s another thing entirely. But if you drink a lot of white, I would want to have it around!
Edited to add that this is just sharing points of view. I don’t care in the slightest how other people track their collections.
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Yes, I understand the purpose of the thread. I’m pretty good with basic English vocabulary.
Since in my house, holdings correlate tightly with consumption, seeing lists without much chromatic variety provoked the question, not a misunderstaning of the lists.
On a side note, I’ve never understood not putting whites or daily drinkers into inventory either. I mean, if those are the ones that go quickly and often need re-stocking, aren’t those in fact the ones that you’d need to track the MOST so you know when you are running low? If you have 6 bottles of a young Barolo that you plan to keep for 10 years, you are going to have 6 bottles of it the whole time until you start consuming it. So you could theoretically argue that you have no real need of inventory for stock that is never changing! Not that I am making that argument.
For me personally, I think everything should go in inventory.
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I hear you. My everyday white wines are kept in a separate space in the cellar. They are opne bins and stocked by grape/country. When a bin is near empty, it is time to replenish. It is all out in the open and easy to assess. My ‘age-worthy’ reds and a handful of whites are a diferent story and I do track them carefully.
Heck of a start!
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I think we’re on the same page here. I’m just being nerdy about what the data means.
For example, there is only one Champagne on my top 10 list. But my wife and I still have over four cases cellared, going back to 1988 and covering several styles. That may seem miniscule to those with dozens of cases of each producer, but it serves our purposes. We rarely open more than a single bottle of Champagne in an evening. It would be different if we were regularly entertaining large groups.
Similarly with whites, there’s enough there to allay any fears of coming up short, even though only 1 Riesling cracked my top 10 producer list.
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This is why my top producer is Goodfellow…. reds, whites, and bubbles!
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Mine top ten are mostly whites (Chardonnay and Riesling) which I tend to drink more of even though the majority of my cellar is red. Red Bordeaux as a region has the most, comprising 22% for aging followed by California and Burgundy. And if I just look at whites then white burgundy dominates, closely followed by the Mosel. Nowadays, at my age, i’m buying older wines from regions I’ve not explored too much: Oregon, Loire, Jura, Italy, South Africa, Spain. In the last year, I’ve been consuming mostly California White and for Red, Bordeaux. Interesting to slice and dice the cellar.
- Falkenstein (2.2%)
- Aubert
- Peter Michael
- Kistler
- Le Gay
- Schafer Frohlich
- Kilburg
- Prum
- Steinmetz
- Abreu
Is either part of that sentence referring to your wife?
Just going out on a limb here, but i think you may be familiar with Last Bottle
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Yep. My “cellar” (stuff I send to off site storage for aging) is 2/3 red, rest is white and sparkling. I probably drink 2/3 white.
My wine fridge at home is a mix of bottles that are ready to drink and stuff that I bought recently. I probably go to wine shop twice a week for bottles. Always trying new stuff.
One day I’ll have a 5000 bottle cellar to drink thru and rapidly declining life expectancy and then it won’t make sense to do a lot of shopping, but right now I’m still building a cellar and also want wines to drink now…
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Yes and no. I’m always buying my usual release wines when I can and rarely adding outside of that save for a screaming deal or a new winery visit. It’s time to drink down what I have and stop bulk adding though.
I rarely open my reds and they’re at an offsite, and whites are majority of what I drink. I’ll usually walk to one of the wineries or wine shops in town for a bottle of white. One place always has a decent selection of interesting 10-20y/o whites and reds.
My current top 10:
- Falkenstein
- Cameron
- Arterberry Maresh
- Shiba Wichern
- Evesham Wood
- Goodfellow
- JC Somers
- Crowley
- Coudert
- (Tie) Thomas
(Tie) Little Crow
I checked and my cellar is 70% red, 30% white. My consumption is roughly the same. (69% red and 31% white). I log about 98% of what I buy and drink, so I think that’s pretty accurate. I had a pretty good idea of how many whites I have in the cellar, but was surprised by the consumption. I guess I drink more whites than I realize.
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Way too familiar! 
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|1|Joh. Jos. Prum
|2|Magdelaine
|3|Vieux Chateau Certan
|4|Palmer
|5|Domaine de Chevalier|
|6|Cheval Blanc
|7|Montrose
|8|Pichon Longueville Comtesse de Lalande
|9|Domaine Bernard & Thierry Glantenay
|10|Figeac
Having so much Prum was a shock. An annual buy.
By region
Bordeaux 45.5%
Burgundy 17.3%
Mosel Saar Ruwer 9.7%
California 6.8%
Champagne 4.0%
Rhône 3.1%
Piedmont 2.4%
Douro 2.4%
Nahe 1.6%
Cognac 1.2%
Provence 1.2%
Loire Valley 0.8%
Rheinhessen 0.7%
Alsace 0.7%
All other regions 3.2%
TOTAL 100.0%
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I got ChatGPT to do the analysis, and it highlighted the Magdelaine.
“You could probably organize them by vintage, bottle size, fill level, and emotional attachment and still have enough left over to pave the driveway.”
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Mark what Palmer vintages have you tried recently? Been looking at adding '10 but I have been put off by other '10 Bordeaux recently. Also '18-20. I have picked up a bunch of '21.