You Spent HOW MUCH ON WINE in 2021?!?!

[Chris_Foley]

I bought roughly 400 bottles at an average price of $30. (I track all my wine including daily drinkers)
That’s about the same as 2019.
2020 spending was 40% lower.

[Alex_Valdes]

Why isn’t “I have no idea, and I prefer it that way” an option? It also give me plausible deniability should my wife ever ask this question, which, thank god, she hasn’t.

This is totally me.

I have plenty of respect for people who budget and track, and then on top of that each of us has different financial situations. But just speaking for myself and with no judgment of anyone else, the hobby is more enjoyable and less stressful when I don’t keep track of the dollars, the numbers of bottles, the rise and fall of my collection size, and all of that.

On a smaller point, I also agree that it’s nice not to be able to answer the probing and critical questions about it.

I know we are all different (which is what makes this board great) but for me (including how my brain works) I find it to be basically zero burden to track this with cellar tracker (4 clicks to answer) and, in many ways, tracking gives me less anxiety because I don’t try and keep these questions in my head or scan my email to remind myself what I did.

[Chris_C_a_r_y]

I was surprised to be at only~$9K for 319 bottles. $28 average price. I felt like I was buying a lot more, and it IS my most since 2013. Lots of good Berserker Day deals and some other wine trips and Covid - related buys on all good wines at fair prices, some very good deals, imo.

I don’t mind looking and CT does a good job as long as I remember to add the price when I add the bottles. I think I did that every time last year, but no promises.

I’ve tracked since 2009 and I really can’t think of anything I’d have rather spent that amount of money on than my wine cellar and sharing those thousands of bottles with family and friends. A new yacht maybe.

[John_Glas]

I bought very little and sold a bunch so on a net basis down about 325 bottles. I still have more wine than I can drink.

It is a start though.

[John_Glas]

I bought roughly 400 bottles at an average price of $30. (I track all my wine including daily drinkers)
That’s about the same as 2019.
2020 spending was 40% lower.

similar wheelhouse. Plenty of good wine for that average.

[NickRut]

Interested to hear what our $50k+ club is spending per bottle on average… care to entertain it?

Probably $200-250 for me. Cellar is up to 3,100 bottles. Really need to thin that out a bit. Anyone wanna come to Atlanta to drink some wine?

[Joseph_Grassa]

Why isn’t “I have no idea, and I prefer it that way” an option? It also give me plausible deniability should my wife ever ask this question, which, thank god, she hasn’t.

This is totally me.

I have plenty of respect for people who budget and track, and then on top of that each of us has different financial situations. But just speaking for myself and with no judgment of anyone else, the hobby is more enjoyable and less stressful when I don’t keep track of the dollars, the numbers of bottles, the rise and fall of my collection size, and all of that.

On a smaller point, I also agree that it’s nice not to be able to answer the probing and critical questions about it.

I track and probably too much. It is nice from an optimizing pov to know where and when the money is spent, but greater satisfaction generally comes from being more of a satisficer. I aim to be more in your place in the future.

[PCLIN]

Going to cut wine spending massively starting ‘22.

[JDavisRoby]

I’m sending this thread to my wife next time she complains how much I spend on wine.

[Michael_O_Brien]

My average was $37 a bottle. I do track my daily drinkers and I buy very little to hold. Most of what I am holding, I have been holding for many years. I am making a library wine run to WA and OR in March so average bottle price will probably go up this year but I am hoping my spend goes down.

[MChang]

I don’t really track at all. I have very little idea of how many bottles I actually own, although I have a good memory and usually remember where to find them.

[ToddFrench]

I am currently accepting bribes to keep the data enclosed in this survey from the significant others of those who submitted said data…

[Vince_T]

Ouch, spent way too much (especially since I didn’t draw a salary), but at least it’s down by 30% from 2020, when I went deep on 2019 BDX EP. In 2021, I managed to only buy 1.5 cases during EP, and half of that was humble Meyney.

[John_Kight]

Excluding all the $8 to $16 Pinots I purchase for my wife (so she has plenty to drink with her friends and doesn’t drink my “real” wine), my purchases are heavily focused in the $45-$70 range, and rapidly phase out as I approach $100/bottle. My estimated distribution would be

<$25 5%
$25 - $50 34%
$50 - $70 39%
$70 - $100 19%
$100 - $130 3%

$130 0%

[Scott_Brunson]

I cannot believe the number of people who are willing to answer these questions.
(willing to answer if not under a subpoena).

[John_Webber]

My previous high water mark was 2007 and I have not come remotely close to that level since. That was until 2021, when I surpassed it by roughly 20%. My previous high per bottle was $66. 2021 saw an average of $111.

My significant other and primary drinking partner quit drinking, for at least a year, in November. 1000+ bottles in the cellar and the wine spending suddenly looked a lot different than a few months ago. 2022 will see significant reductions in spending. While spending less, I will not be surprised to see the per bottle double or triple as I buy only gems.

[NED_VALOIS]

10-20k, but who’s asking ??

[Dan_Sch]

I am currently accepting bribes to keep the data enclosed in this survey from the significant others of those who submitted said data…

The value of said bribe increases infinitely if you find out whose spouse asked me to gather the intel

[Steve_McL]

Interested to hear what our $50k+ club is spending per bottle on average… care to entertain it?

Probably $200-250 for me. Cellar is up to 3,100 bottles. Really need to thin that out a bit. Anyone wanna come to Atlanta to drink some wine?

Hey Nick, we are here for you man…
Am in the same boat with cellar up to 2500 bottles this year. Riesling helped buffer the Burgs so my average per-bottle was ~$90.

[alan_weinberg]

Where is the ‘basically stopped buying’ option?

right next to the “no f’in’ way am I talking” button.