I’ve been collecting wine personally for over 20 years and now I am, as of today, going to catalogue what I have to make some decisions. The wine is in predominantly in the UK, though I also have some in NY and a few other places. Starting off with home storage, it should be fun unearthing stacks of wines some of which I’ve not looked at in 20 years. First location is an old stables with a garage built into the banks of the garden so it’s super cold and a perfect place to store, I’m not sure but 2000 to 3000 bottles.
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Start drinking. Should be fun.
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I love drinking them but honestly there is enough for several life times and although I love old wine after collecting for so long a lot of the wines from the 70’s, 80’s and 90’s are ready to drink now not in other 20 years. Also I still love collecting and spend about 4 weeks in Europe tasting and buying, so I need to make space for them….
Sounds like a fun project, I’d love to be in a position to help you sort them.
If you end up feeling like selling anything feel free to give me a PM.
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2-3000 bottles won’t take that long to drink, have a few wine events.
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I think there are 10 to 15,000 in total…
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Better get started then.
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you own 10-15k wines and haven’t catalogued them??
you may need to call our house. ill help you drink them and my wife would get a kick out of helping to organize that stash. honestly, this is the kind of organizing I could get into as well. lol
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PM if you’d like to discuss taking the load off of inventorying what you have. Happy to discuss options with you.
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Looks interesting….
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I mean it’s not that hard to imagine. That said there is a big difference between 10 and 15k bottles.
pedestrian producer. those are too old too drink, definitely over the hill. i’ll be happy to take them from you so i can at least use it for cooking. let me know.
seems like there’s a point where organizing a s**t ton of wine is just organizing a s*t ton of wine, either way lol.
obviously thats not entirely true, but Id think between 10-15k youre just on a roll. now 5-15k… that feels like a huge difference.
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I mean, I have a similar amount of wine and don’t have much organization. I have a pretty good mental inventory of what I have but it often takes me awhile to figure out where bottles are.
The problem with cataloging and organizing is often where to put the wine. The space I have can hold more than twice the amount of wine I have when it’s in boxes, bins or racks, but not if the bottles are all loose on the ground. I think it would take at least a solid week of full days to get everything organized and cataloged and I more or less know exactly what bottles I have in the cellar and they’re more or less organized with at least some semblance of logic. If you had like boxes of mixed bottles it would take forever and require a ton of space. My cellar is at least mostly burgundy and champagne so it isn’t quite as hard to sort, but would still take awhile.
Great way to give back to causes you care about by donating bottles for auctions or selling them with a caveat that the sales price goes to an auction of your choice.
Or just send it all to an auction house and have them sort it out.
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Rousseau box might be interesting
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- Pick up each item one at a time.
- Ask yourself if it sparks joy – you should feel a little thrill, as if the cells in your body are slowly rising.
- If it does, keep it!
- If it doesn’t, let it go with gratitude.
Good luck, lol.
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Same with case of Fourrier, Lafarge, and Domaine Maume Mazis Chambertin.
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Not sure where you live but charity donation sounds interesting. Same with an offline wine event, have folks help you catalog and pop some for fun.
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In the words of Peter Koff, “Drink that shit!”
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