What producers do you drink?

[Brian_G_r_a_f_s_t_r_o_m]

@marc_shivers

For purchases or consumed bottles in CT, you can narrow results by begin/end dates. E.g. CT home → Wine Purchased → Narrow Results → Beginning Purchase.

Sweet! Thank you!

Looking forward to bar graphs and histograms, too. CT is such an incredible treasure-trove of data, just waiting to be toyed with.

[Joe_D]

Caveat: we drink a lot of daily stuff that does not make it into CellarTracker, but this is pretty representative.

Pepiere
Vincent Wine Company
Walter Scott
Luneau-Papin
D&R
Foillard
Rhys
John Thomas
J-F Mugnier
F Cotat

[bddehn]

Here goes…

Clarice
Sea Smoke
Drew
Big Basin
Rhys
Liquid Farm
School House
Walter Scott
Lucia
Deaver (manage the winery)

out…

[Dan_Kravitz]

OK, I’ve marked those I sell (most of them) with an *, or several, explained at the end

*Jacqueson (Rully and Mercurey)
**Cabirau
*Pegau
***Mount Eden
Jadot
*Duplessis
*l’Edre
Glantenay
Maximin Grunhaus
*Goubard

** I own Domaine Cabirau
*** I represent Mount Eden in the State of Maine, but do not make money from doing so

Dan Kravitz

[K_N_Haque]

All time, I think this is changing a bit with more dry Riesling and less stickies, and also some more grower champagne:

Steinmetz
Prüm
Blue Ox/Hammerling
Knebel
Alexandre Salmon
Sabelli-Fisch
Prager
Molitor
Willi Schaefer
Robert Weil
Billecart-Salmon
Weinbach
Climens

[ABell]

I’m a bit all over the place. At 33 I am still quite in my exploratory stage of wine drinking but for now top names I am drinking are:

Champagne:
Vilmart
Pehu-Simonet
Dethune

Burgundy:
Glantenay
JM Pillot
Louis Michel

Domestic:
Goodfellow
Vincent
Evesham Woods
Shiba Wichern
Rivers Marie (Chards and Pinot only)
Di Constanzo
Beta

Germany:
JJ Prum
Emrich-Schonleber
Schafer-Frolich

Not too far behind:
Suzor
Morgen Long

[Dan_A]

Now that I’ve looked into this

Ceritas
Chappellet
Pierre peters
Juve y camps (house sparkling)
Raventos
Produttori
Bruno Clair
Carlisle
Conti Costanti
Terre Nere

Although I’m mostly buying Burgundy now so I expect the list will change in the coming years.

[Jim_Cowan]

Louis Michel

Pepiere

Francois Pinon

Clos Cibonne

Vincent

Dirty & Rowdy

Vissoux

Desvignes

my own stuff.

(Not in order)

[Howard_Cooper]

@Dan_Kravitz

*** I represent Mount Eden in the State of Maine, but do not make money from doing so

Dan,

I have heard about Mount Eden for a long time and even owned a couple of young bottles of Cabernet but had not tasted any of their wines until I visited there last December when I was in the area. I was very impressed by what I tasted, esp. the Cabs and the less expensive Chardonnays (which I thought were very well priced).

I am trying to learn more about the winery. What do you drink from them that puts them fourth on your list and at what ages? Thanks for any help.

[Mark_Golodetz]

@Howard_Cooper

Dan,

I have heard about Mount Eden for a long time and even owned a couple of young bottles of Cabernet but had not tasted any of their wines until I visited there last December when I was in the area. I was very impressed by what I tasted, esp. the Cabs and the less expensive Chardonnays (which I thought were very well priced).

I am trying to learn more about the winery. What do you drink from them that puts them fourth on your list and at what ages? Thanks for any help.

From a tasting in 2018

Many Mount Edens with a 1953 Martin Ray etc

Ever since since a lowly Gemello 1970, raised in redwood tanks beat out the likes of Petrus and Latour 1970, LMHB 1975 and Heitz Martha’s 1974 in a cover tasting of Spurrier’s, I have been a fan of Santa Cruz wines. In fact it was the only time I ever thought I might become a winemaker. Unfortunately the vineyard had been replaced a Silicon Valley MacMansion, so I never had to prune or pick in earnest. I did the next best thing, and collected Santa Cruz mountain wines, Ridge, Mount Eden and San…

[Martin_Petersen]

Cellertracker stats since 2004, my top ten list is this

G. Mascarello
Bruno Giacosa
Montevertine
Bartolo Mascarello
Keller
Heymann-Löwenstein
Guy Charlemagne
Albert Boxler
Soldera
Billecart-Salmon

Pretty representative of my taste today also.

[Warren_Taranow]

Thanks to @marc_shivers for the instructions how to search CT consumption by date.

Since September 2019, my top producers in order of quantity drank and/or shared have been:

Taittinger (almost exclusively Comtes BdB)
Vilmart
Krug
Louis Roederer (Cristal and vintage Brut Rosé)
Billecart-Salmon (Mostly Cuvée Nicolas Billecart)
Dom Pérignon
Deutz
Pierre-Yves Colin-Morey
Phipponnat
Egly-Ouriet

Still, while those are the top producers I drink, they represent 1/3 of the bottles I’ve opened.

Since 2005, when I joined CT:

Taittinger
Vilmart
Ceritas
Gilbert Picq (love this but rarely see it anymore)
Krug
Huet
Mongeard-Mugneret (I used to buy a lot in Michigan)
Billecart Salmon
Girardin (a surprise; haven’t had one in a dozen or more years)
Charles Heidsieck (mostly '95 BdM)
Rhys

Cheers,
Warren

[Doug_Lee]

Great exercise.

I performed a search on tasting notes written in Cellartracker, since I’m fairly religious about writing a TN after every bottle personally drained, and “consumed wine” in CT includes wine I’ve donated or given away. Top ten producers since April 2004 include:

1. Arcadian (about 3-fold the number of tasting notes of the next highest producer)
2. Joseph Drouhin
3. Ceritas
4. St. Innocent
5. Sandrone
6. Felsina
7. Scherrer
8. Radio-Coteau
9. Pegau
10. Giacosa

Cheers,
Doug

[Nathan_V]

From 2006 (when I started doing a better job of tracking in CT).

Domaine Bernard Baudry
Domaine Georges Mugneret-Gibourg
Domaine de la Pépière
Eric Texier
Coudert
Jean-Philippe Fichet
Ceritas
Hofgut Falkenstein
Azienda Agricola Montesecondo
Azienda Agricola Caparsa

It really starts to level off at Caparsa, such that all the remaining entries go down by 1 bottle or a tie.

Here is the list for the last full year (2021):
Azienda Agricola Caparsa
Flavio Roddolo
Coudert
Hofgut Falkenstein
Domaine Gramenon
Domaine du Collier
Domaine Bernard Baudry
Tiberio
Domaine Huet
Domaine Georges Mugneret-Gibourg

An interesting exercise to do every now and then to balance purchasing versus consumption. This might seem sacrilege here, but I think I buy too much Champagne for our consumption habits (probably red Burgundy as well).

A quick look at the top 10 in my cellar by volume and it only sort of matches consumption.
Domaine Georges Mugneret-Gibourg
Domaine du Collier
Eric Texier
Hofgut Falkenstein
Clos Rougeard (Foucault)
Domaine Bernard Baudry
Domaine Ghislaine Barthod / Barthod-Noëllat
Fratelli Brovia
G.D. Vajra
Hubert Lignier

[Rob_S1]

I"m bad at drinking bottles from CT so I know there’s about 50 bottles in my CT cellar that have passed through my liver and I need to do reconciliation at some point. Mostly affects Bedrock and Enfield I think. I also don’t put anything in CT that is going to be drunk within the week or so of purchase.

Maybach
Bollinger
Pontet-Canet
Jacques Selosse
Cedric Bouchard
Bedrock
Chapoutier
Enfield
Chave
Boekenhoutskloof

This isn’t super reflective of my cellar. I only have one bottle of Selosse left for instance, haven’t bought any bordeaux since the 2010 vintage (I still have about a hundred bottles of Bordeaux which is about 10-12 years of consumption). I still own a lot of Maybach and continue to buy but not in the amounts I used to. I haven’ bought current release Chave is ages and only a couple of bottles of white Chapoutier a year.

[Jeff_M1]

My list, mostly zins with my cabs starting to get into better drinking range.

Limerick Lane - don’t buy any more
Turley
Carlisle
Bedrock
Zichichi
Robert Craig
A. Rafanelli
Spottswoode

[Andrew_Demaree]

My top ten, in order, since I started using CellarTracker in 2009:

Bedrock
Myriad
Scherrer
Larkmead
Carlisle
Quivet
Ridge
EMH
Enfield
Davenport

No surprises for me, although I know Larkmead has dropped out of the top ten in the last year or two due to release prices increasing beyond perceived value for me. In any case, I’m pretty happy with my CA-centric palate.

[Michael_Hung]

How are Latour’s second and third wines compared to the flagship? I seem to like the style of Latour, but the price can make it difficult as a daily

[Todd_Tucker]

In the last 5 years, only counting wines I track. there were many daily drinkers that outpace these.

Goodfellow
Hubert Lamy
Giuseppe Rinaldi
Veyder Mahlberg
Burlotto
Produttori
Roagna
Giacosa
Hebrart
Bartolo Mascarello/ M-G tied for 10th

[P_a_u_l_Christensen]

Interesting exercise…

I have tracked 531 producers through my CT records over the last 5 years… the top ten are

Chateau Musar
Marrenon (my daily drinking red and white for while)
Invivo
Champagne Lallier (house rosé champagne for a while)
Domaine des Diables (house still rosé for a while)
Mas Amiel
Domaine de la Janasse
Conte d’Attimis-Maniago (served their 2006 Pignolo at our wedding)
Cantina Della Volta
Laura Lorenzo DaTerra Viticultores (46 bottles to make the top 10)

But in the last year (out of 193 producers), quite different:

Invivo (house white)
Henriet-Bazin (been drinking lots more fizz - this grower is excellent value)
Langmeil (house rosé for a while)
Chateau Musar (I don’t think this will ever be outside my top 5)
Zephyr
Villa Raiano
La Bollina (another house rosé - we drink a lot of rosé)
Tristan Hyest
Collestefano (another house white - superb value and consistency)
Robert Barbichon (only 9 bottles to make the top 10)

Only 25% of our consumption is red. We drink a lot of white and rosé (including champagnes).