When you look at your cellar inventory, and calculate that you will need to live to 108 years old to drink all of your wine at current consumption levels. …… And then you get on your favorite purveyors website and place another order.
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Preach it, brother!
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You get your conformation email from Sandler for your Monopole Cru Pinot order 3 minutes before the email from @ToddFrench about Preview Day being open.
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I hope to be a spry 108 year old, because I need to last at least to 150.
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Pulling for you Warren!!
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You take your daily vitamin/medication with your evening wine…
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You see an upcoming party on the calendar and do a quick check of the electrolytes inventory.
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Guests are coming over and you say “Bring a salad or dessert. We’ve got wine covered!”
You are going to be the guests and you say “We’ll bring the wine. We’ve got it covered!”
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I plan to live forever. So far, so good.
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… when you have notes on your friends’ wine preferences and discrimination levels.
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I have a file on my phone for all of my extended family and friends with likes/dislikes.
I have never written anything like that down, yet one of the things I notice and make the most enduring mental notes about is what people in my world like and dislike in wine.
You can call it thoughtfulness, insecurity, or maybe both, I don’t know, but I really delight in remembering and serving people what they like, or something which hearkens back to some positive connection. Of course, I don’t bat 1.000 in my attempts, but often it is a nice way to express friendship.
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You know you’re a berserker when……… you’re wife asks you for a bottle from the cellar to give to her hair stylist for Christmas, and you tell her to go to the local liquor store and buy one.
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Chris you seem like a pretty thoughtful guy, and so it makes sense that’s where it comes from. It’s taken me longer to get there but as I mature (even if just slightly 
), and as my world of friends grows I realize that there’s a world of palate preferences out there that don’t always overlap with mine.
Not everyone likes my funky Loire wines. My “barnyard” is someone else’s “pile of sh*t in hot summer sun”.
Again it’s taken me a while to get there. But if I was serving dinner to friends in a million years I wouldn’t ask them to eat something I knew they didn’t like. For me it’s no different with wine.
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Thanks for the kind words. I appreciate them a great deal.
I do try to introduce things to civilian friends, but usually with some sense of what they like. Like “if you like A, you might also like B because it has many of the same appeals” kind of thing, rather than “let’s try Z because I’ve been geeking out on it.”
Good analogy to serving food. If a friend doesn’t like seafood, I won’t cook a seafood meal for her when she’s over.
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This is the thing. We probably try harder than civilians to make sure our friends have wine they like, versus a bald “ this is what’s open”
There might be a thread around what’s the “most valuable” wine you’ve poured for a civilian. “Valuable’ isn’t really $ it’s more likely how much you like it and how few you have left.
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You’ll curry more favor by having a small stash of QPR wines just for this purpose 
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Don’t you have a stock of random wine you’ve been gifted ready to regift?
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I don’t really calibrate wine I pour to people’s palate preferences, with the exception of generally sticking to Napa cabs and champagne mostly from magnum for our draft weekend (with some occasional DRC/salon etc if there’s a small group dinner) generally out of expediency because the dinners are usually at steakhouses and many of my med school friends are big cab drinkers (and big drinkers period) so pouring burgs may be suboptimal both from a enjoyment and financial perspective.
Other than that, pretty much everyone we have over and everyone we dine with more or less knows what I’m going to be pouring, red burgs (usually grand cru), champagne, and sometimes Sauternes. Most people don’t have a problem with it.
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Absolutely this. And the terrific thing is I probably paid for only two thirds of them.