Ave. spend on bottles of sparkling wine currently in my cellar: $47.50
Ave. spend, historically, on sparkling wines: $32.50 (does not include bottles gifted to me)
Both of those numbers are reflective of my habit of generally buying sub-$20 sparklers for mimosas. If I were to keep this only to Champagne, specifically, the numbers would change drastically.
The average for my 47 bottles is almost exactly $100. This does not include the $20 bottles we buy for my wife to drink with her girlfriends. I have have just recently started buying vintage champagnes so I expect this average will creep up.
~40 cases; it’s hard to keep track and I haven’t updated CT in awhile. At least 2/3 is grand Marques, mostly dp/krug although I’ve started adding more Cristal lately.
I like Champagne and find a lot of enjoyment in bottles under $50, very much where most of my wine purchases are. I have bought some spendy bottles, as I have with still wines, but that’s not my norm.
I’m pretty surprised at the poll results and wonder if $100 and up is the range for all wines among you whales.
Years ago a friend asked me if I could hook him up with a bottle of bubbles from my collection for his anniversary with his then-GF/now wife. I told him that I didn’t have much on hand that I could give away. So, this exchange happened:
friend: But I thought you drink a lot of champagne
I get answering anonymous polls like this, but I’m always surprised by the specificity in which people post about how many bottles they own and how much they cost.