Was wondering the other day what we actually drink the most of. So i went through my notes for the past year and took a look. We consume way more pinot than anything else, but enjoy most varietals to at least some degree. The specifics look like this:
10 bottles- Zepaltas sonoma coast '09
9 bottles- Scherrer rrv '07, Copain tous ensemble '09
7 bottles- Copain les voisins '09, Straight line mendocino pinot '09
6 bottles- Joe Swan cuvee de trois '09
5 bottles- Zepaltas suacci '09, Kosuge manchester ridge '09, Londer av '09
4 bottles- Mt eden '09, Knez demuth '09, Porter Creek fiona hill '09, Bjornstad hellenthal '07
3 bottles and below- Too many to list
I am always trying new things, sometimes too much I think. But these are the ones i’ve visited alot.
Pinot makes up about 80% of my cellar with Burgundy about 65% of that amount. It’s the favorite varietal by a country mile for both my wife and I. I really only open other stuff for guests or the occasional offline with a different theme. Champagne is a new obscession of ours, so looking to increase my holdings in that area. Wish I discovered the joy of Champagne earlier.
If you are talking about specific bottlings and vintages, similar to John L there are very few repeats apart from house sparklers which tend to be NV (Roederer Brut, Chidaine Montlouis Brut, etc). A quick check shows I haven’t repeated a single wine in 3 1/2 months so far this year, not to say it won’t happen a few times.
I have hundreds of individual wine/vintage bottlings, so if I drank 3-10 bottles of several individual wines every year, I would not be sampling very widely. I am guessing you have a fairly young cellar. I am typically buying 3-6 of a wine, cellaring some number of years, then drinking one every year or two until gone. For the (shrinking) CA pinot I own I usually cellar for about 4-5 years (closer to 10 for the Mt. Eden). Related to your list we had a 2004 Swan CdT last week, I have one more and will probably open it next year. But I have the 05, 06, and 07 to get through too. I’ll hold the 04 Trenton estates much longer. The aging and consumption profile tends to be a little longer for Oregon, and quite a bit longer for european wines, both white and red.
Corey, I rarely open two bots of the same wine in a year. I was actually astonished to see your original post, opening so many bottles of each wine. By opening bottles that I last drank a few years ago, there is a certain mystery about what I’ll find in each one. I find that adds to the appeal. I could well be wrong, but I’d bet not many wine board geeks open 4 to 10 bottles per year of a dozen or more wines. I’ll be very interested to see what others have to say.
We have a lot of house or go-to wines here. We consume a lot of Guion Bourgeuil, Baudry Chinon, Pepiere Muscadet, and also several beaujolais in quantity, as well as some inexpensive bourgogne blanc. Burgundy gets spread out more, less concentration of consumption. Lots of cava and other sparklers for holidays and entertaining, trending towards more champagne and more sparkling chenin.
Cabot is almost singlehandedly pushing Cali ahead of Rhone for me. For me Rhone, Cali, Washington and Bordeaux are always my top 4 with Rhone the most consistent among those.
I tend not to drink any wine more than once or twice a year except at the daily drinker level, at which I like to load up on things like Cru Beau, Loire whites and Chinon, the occasional CdR, etc., for regular consumption.
Occasionally, I do go through lots of bottles of one particular wine in the higher echelons. For example, after the 2007 Copain Baker Ranch Syrah was released a few years ago, I went through the six-pack I ordered in about three months, got another six-pack, and promptly drank them up within a few more months. Couldn’t keep my hands off of it. I am now experiencing a similar phenomenon with their 2009 Brosseau Chardonnay. Still, for the most part I try not to repeat bottles too often.
I highlighted your Zepaltas reference because I was finishing a bottle of that very wine when I opened this thread. It is the first Zepaltas I have tried, and I acquired it as part of a Berserker Day case. It is a very nice wine; I can see why you keep hitting it.
In that case for me it’s a case of Bridlewood Syrah, which I got through a connection at Gallo for $12. That’s the case price, not the bottle price. Therefore this statistic points to nothing more than it was cheaper than bottled water.
Past that, I’m with the rest here. My next largest consumption is the Bedrock Compagni Portis at 2 bottles. The rest are all singles.
In the last year, my top four wines consumed (counting multiple vintages of each wine) were Turnbull cab, Scherrer cab, Larkmead cab, and Fontodi Chianti.
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