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

[Jeff_M1]

21’ spending was down $6K from 20’ spending. I still bought too much last year.

[Pat_Martin]

This thread prompted me to add up mine for 2021, and I am shocked, truly shocked at my outlay. I somehow deluded myself that 2021 expenditures hadn’t been that bad.

I’m on a buying freeze for the month at present and I just extended it at least until April!

[Tom_G_l_a_s_g_o_w]

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.

I think you need to redeploy the cats collar to your trigger finger.

[Tom_G_l_a_s_g_o_w]

21’ spending was down $6K from 20’ spending. I still bought too much last year.

Not a good non-answer answer, makes people wonder.

[Tom_G_l_a_s_g_o_w]

This thread prompted me to add up mine for 2021, and I am shocked, truly shocked at my outlay. I somehow deluded myself that 2021 expenditures hadn’t been that bad.

I’m on a buying freeze for the month at present and I just extended it at least until April!

Berserker Day and your usual 3 mailing list allocations excepted?

[J_Rock]

$58.50/bottle average. That’s very reasonable. The number of bottles… that made me do a double take…

[Andrew_K]

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

$470 was my average in 2021. $340 in 2020.

$114 here. I bought I large number of daily drinkers. My goal for 2022 is decrease my total spend and increase my bottle average.

[Greg_K]

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

$470 was my average in 2021. $340 in 2020.

On a serious note, I made an effort in the last couple of years to buy better wine in smaller quantities at a higher per bottle average. I’m not as good as you Alex at keeping statistics, but I buy very few “daily drinkers” that aren’t sourced directly from domaines.

[Zachary_Mancini]

Probably touched 6 figures. But boy will I be drinking some fire from here on out.

Ya I spent way too much but will have a good cellar for the future!

[Rob_S1]

I usually make a point of not looking at that report in cellartracker (or scrolling to the bottom of the cellar page where you can see the total value/cost). Now I remember why…

192 bottles at a hair over $90 each. But I don’t track wines that are not going into the cellar, if it’s bought for immediate consumption and never gets past the kitchen counter it doesn’t go into CT.

Edit: then you go through everything as your now curious and see that you didn’t put in a price for two cases of Cedric Bouchard and I probably tipped into the next category…

[John_O]

I spent more in 2021 than any prior year. Lots of reasons for that, but one of the drivers is setting up that “retirement cellar” that sets me up better 15 years out. Have also done a lot of backfilling and a little unicorn chasing. While pricing is up quite a bit, availability has appeared strong, I assume in light of so many strong vintages in so many regions that I buy. Gracefully, the economy was crazy strong last year.

Same here on “retirement cellar” rationale. Spending was remarkably similar to prior years but quantity is way up due to de Negoce purchases.

[Robert.A.Jr]

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

All subject to subpoena, baby!

[JDavisRoby]

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

All subject to subpoena, baby!

Goodness…getting a divorce court subpoena sent to WB would be brutal.

[Rob_S1]

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

All subject to subpoena, baby!

Goodness…getting a divorce court subpoena sent to WB would be brutal.

Probably a whole lot of “hearsay and hyperbole your honor”.

[Rodrigo_B]

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

Just call it a new Monopole Cru ‘feature’

[NED_VALOIS]

Anything above 20K is considered a Felony in the state of Florida !!

[Ron_Erickson]

My spending cratered 30% in 2021 with the tariffs/retail pricing on French reds. Currently, I’m almost exclusively Tuscany, Oregon PN, and summer whites.

[Keith_B2]

I was down 25% in spend compared to 2020, but average price was up - $51/bottle.

[Jeff_M1]

21’ spending was down $6K from 20’ spending. I still bought too much last year.

Not a good non-answer answer, makes people wonder.

High $40K range last year 504 bottles.

[Geoff_Weathersby]

I’d be curious to see what everyone’s average bottle was Year over Year. We spent alot of time talking about how prices both, from the winery and auction houses, have gone up. Did we track that with our average bottles? or did we move purchases to lower/higher priced alternatives?