What did you purchase in 2021?

[Howard_Cooper]

70% Bordeaux with most concentrated on 8 chateaux
10% Prum plus a few other German wines
10% Burgundy
10% the rest

I assume Vieux Chateau Certan was one of the 8. The others?

[Rodrigo_B]

53% German
20% Oregon
10% California
10% Burgundy
5% Champagne

[Brian_Tuite]

6 Chemos & accompanying Dr visits etc !

Ugh! I am very sorry to hear this, Ned. I hope that 2022 brings to you a return to good health and many opportunities to enjoy it.

What he said. That’s horrible. Best of health moving forward!

[Alex_Valdes]

% bottles purchased / % 2021 spend / # producers

50% / 66% / 26 Burg
12% / 15% / 9 Champagne
23% / 11% / 13 other French (Bdx, Rhone, Loire, etc)
7% / 2% / 4 American
5% / 2.5% / 3 German
3% / 3.5% / 2 Italian

Total spend was roughly the same as 2020.

The plan for 2022 is less overall and a continued trend toward fewer but higher quality bottles.

In 2022 I plan to do something similar: I expect a total bottles purchased reduction of about 40% at a similar spend to 2021. I plan to consolidate around the top 10 producers I really like and leave about 15% budget for ex-top10 (in 2021 30% of my spend was ex-top10). Where prices are now I can’t afford to not be focused.

[JBrochu]

27 percent Oregon (mostly Goodfellow)
25 percent Burgundy
15 percent Champagne
8 percent Loire
5 percent California

Then a percent or two of a bunch of other regions.

[Ed_Steinway]

NED VALOIS wrote:
6 Chemos & accompanying Dr visits etc ! >

Best wishes to a speedy recovery, good health and being able to drink some nice bottles of wine very soon, Ned!

We bought Bordeaux, Goodfellow for the 1st time (and certainly not last time!), 2019 German Whites, Champagne and the usual mailing list purchases. Most of the Bordeaux was from the 2010, 2016 and 2019 vintages.

Happy New Year’s to all!
Ed

[Brian_S_t_o_t_t_e_r]

Too much

[Sarah_Kirschbaum]

Germany - 45.8%
–MSR - 16.6
–Nahe - 11.9
–Rheinhessen - 7.3
–Baden - 6.6
–Franken - 2.3
–Mittelrhein - 1.0

Champagne - 18.4%
Piedmont - 8.9%
Burgundy - 6.8%
SW France - 6.3% (pretty much all one wine, our house rose)
Loire - 4.3%
Jura - 1%
Provence - 1%
Spain - 3.2% (almost all Galicia)
USA (CA) - 1.8%

Bordeaux, Rhone, the rest of Italy, Oregon, Austria, the UK (scotch) and Belgium (beer) all below 1%

[Mark_Golodetz]

70% Bordeaux with most concentrated on 8 chateaux
10% Prum plus a few other German wines
10% Burgundy
10% the rest

I assume Vieux Chateau Certan was one of the 8. The others?

In no particular order
Canon
Magdelaine
Haut Bailly
Domaine de Chevalier (pre 1990)
Cheval Blanc
Pichon Lalande
Mouton 2016

[Robert.A.Jr]

I do not keep stats or use CT, so just in broad strokes:

2021 was my biggest wine buying year ever. Not sure why, just was. Not sure exactly how much or how many, either, but have had over 20 new cases delivered just this past month. I would say 95% of my purchases were French, with Bordeaux being about 50% of that. I went long this year, trying to set up the proper retirement cellar for the 10+ year out cycle.

The wines I bought the most were:

Magdelaine
Sociando
Lanessan
VCC
Raffault
Baudry
Thivin
Montrose
Sky Zin
Gonon
Levet
BAMA
Roilette

[Peter_Chiu]

90% burgundy and 10% Argentine.

[Michael_S_Monie]

90% burgundy and 10% Argentine.

Strange combo. Sort of like playing the flute and bass, which at one time I did.

[John_Glas]

255 bottles, of which 210 remain undrunk. Spending up 22% year-on-year

Quite diverse, with the biggest bottle count going to: Benetiere, Dominus, Foillard, Louis Michel, Marcel Juge, Produttori del Barbaresco, PYCM. Very long tail of ones and twos

Lots of fun things to try from Lopa (not affiliated, just a happy customer) - they are exactly 40% of my buying by bottle count

Yes when you get excited about a shop you better put in a disclaimer now a days. Does Lopa do daily blasts or is more click through the site on what is in stock.

[crickey]

I must echo Brian’s response above: too much.

[NED_VALOIS]

6 Chemos & accompanying Dr visits etc !

THANKS TO ALL!
ON THE ROAD TO RECOVERY & BEING ABLE TO TASTE AGAIN !!!

A TRULY HAPPY NEW YEAR TO ALL !!

[Rodrigo_B]

Glad to hear it Ned. Wishing you a full and speedy recovery, a great new year, and fantastic wines when you’re able to taste again.

[Jay_Miller]

Ned - adding to the good wishes for a full recovery and great new year filled with many capital letters


Rauzan Segla
Pinon
Calsac
Muller Catoir
Weegmuller
Birichino
Salvioni
Vincent
Duplessis
Halcon

[alan_weinberg]

lots of champagne, white burgundy, a little Clos Ste. Hune, a little red Burgundy, a few cases of de Negoce to keep family away from the prizes while they age.

[Julian_Marshall]

My best wishes to Ned for a full and speedy recovery. It’s pretty sobering to read about that.

As to the rather secondary issue of bottles of wine bought, mine were:

Bordeaux - 38%
Loire - 58%

As to producers, well, the usual suspects in no particular order: Roches Neuves, Clos du Jaugueyron, Joguet, Baudry, Y. Amirault, quite a few Magdelaines, some HBLs, Gruauds and lately, some Duharts.

[EricZ]

Way too much - 226 bottles, and 2 wine fridges to boot to go with the 1 I already owned. I am mostly a solo drinker - the wife will have a glass maybe once a week but that’s all.

US was 67%, NZ was 14% and France, Austria and Spain were all fairly evenly split for the rest.

2022 goal is to explore a bit more outside of the US. I also went heavy with US as I know unfortunately lots of vineyards may not have a 2020 vintage so I tried to go a bit deeper in 2019 for future drinking.