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My cellar is so out of whack
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Ian,
No such thing as "way too much MSR" unless you bought badly and loaded up on 99 mosels and 2000s.
And Nathan - bordeaux from the 80s sure but no great loss missing the 70s really.
I figured out pretty early that I love burgundy and riesling and have bought those not exclusively but primarily so that's mostly what I have. Over the years, I've donated a lot of wine to charity events and I no longer can easily find something in my cellar I have no interest in drinking as it's long gone and I'm buying smarter now. My biggest wine buying regret is not realizing sooner that I like northern rhone reds, as they'd already become too expensive by the time I knew.
I also wish I'd not passed on 91 burgs.
No such thing as "way too much MSR" unless you bought badly and loaded up on 99 mosels and 2000s.
And Nathan - bordeaux from the 80s sure but no great loss missing the 70s really.
I figured out pretty early that I love burgundy and riesling and have bought those not exclusively but primarily so that's mostly what I have. Over the years, I've donated a lot of wine to charity events and I no longer can easily find something in my cellar I have no interest in drinking as it's long gone and I'm buying smarter now. My biggest wine buying regret is not realizing sooner that I like northern rhone reds, as they'd already become too expensive by the time I knew.
I also wish I'd not passed on 91 burgs.
Claude Kolm
Claude Kolm
I didn't know this. Next time you're out here, we'll arrange a get-together with Mr. Edmunds and drink some rare stuff.originally posted by maureen:
My biggest wine buying regret is not realizing sooner that I like northern rhone reds, as they'd already become too expensive by the time I knew.
P.S. -- You can still do pretty well with very careful selection of St-Joseph and Crozes-Hermitage at under $30-35.
originally posted by Kay Bixler:
As long as there is still some Pesnot abouriou my cellar will be perfect.
I happen to have one of these, a 2002, in magnum. I look at it every now and then and wonder what it is doing. Have you been drinking any of these lately? Thanks.
Jason
Ian Fitzsimmons
Ian Fitzsimmons
originally posted by maureen:
Ian,
No such thing as "way too much MSR" unless you bought badly and loaded up on 99 mosels and 2000s ...
The Schaefer we had the other night is a good illustration of your point, but I have quite a bit. I mean, not in Bueker's league, of course, but relatively. Also my wife is not into them, which poses a problem.
Ian Fitzsimmons
Ian Fitzsimmons
originally posted by Brad Kane:
Hehehe.
You get any of the '05 Joguets, btw? The Dioterie and Varennes are really super. Amongst the best Loire Cab Franc I've ever had. Of course it's because they actually show fruit...
Did you like the 05 Clos du Chene?
On a more modest scale, the Petites Roches is quite good, I think, and well-priced.
Sharon Bowman
Sharon Bowman
You do know whom you're asking, do you not?
My "cellar" is still too young to be out of whack.
Also, I only recently started buying with the intention of cellaring and I've been interested in wine for about 7 or 8 years, so I had some time to avoid the early mistakes. That said, I probably wouldn't have made the category mistakes because I started out pretty much with the same regions I enjoy today. Although who knows where it will go in the future.
My one 'regret' is buying 6 bottles of 1988 Moulin Touchais. But all things considered that's not too bad of a deal and I only have one bottle left.
Also, I only recently started buying with the intention of cellaring and I've been interested in wine for about 7 or 8 years, so I had some time to avoid the early mistakes. That said, I probably wouldn't have made the category mistakes because I started out pretty much with the same regions I enjoy today. Although who knows where it will go in the future.
My one 'regret' is buying 6 bottles of 1988 Moulin Touchais. But all things considered that's not too bad of a deal and I only have one bottle left.
Ian Fitzsimmons
Ian Fitzsimmons
originally posted by Sharon Bowman:
Ian FitzsimmonsYou do know whom you're asking, do you not?
I thought I did, in a virtual kind of way. But your note induces doubt.
I have a strange cellar.
I think anyone into wine with an inquiring mind has a strange cellar after 10+ years.
A lot of it is stuff that is in the sub $25 category, that makes it almost not worth sending off to auction by the time I pay for shipping and commissions.
Cull party!
Anyway, I guess that's all to say I am becoming a lot more selective about what I'm buying. A good deal doesn't necessarily mean you want to drink it.
Ain't that God's truth?!
...how much venison and wild boar can one really eat?
Get a gun, Mark!
Cellars are continuing stories until the end, either eternal, or until the liver or feeding tube gives out. Sure, there are things I wish I had allocated better, perhaps not bought too much of, but overall, it's like Frank Sinatra: "regrets, I've had a few, but too few to mention."
Unlike some here, my focus has been broad, but mostly European, and I try to go for wines that age well for over a decade, so I try to keep 'current' drinking wines to a minimum since I may not get around to them in time. And I seldom purchase in case quantities ( I think the last time I did was for Huet in 2002), because there is just so, so much wine flowing out there that it's hard to ever feel regret when that last bottle flows.
In some ways, the building-a-cellar philosophy is as endearing as the home built by a person instead of a commercial homebuilder: you live, you learn, and sure, maybe the windows could have been placed better, the patio enclosed, etc., but it is something you did, and reflects the idiosyncracies of the person behind it.
Unlike some here, my focus has been broad, but mostly European, and I try to go for wines that age well for over a decade, so I try to keep 'current' drinking wines to a minimum since I may not get around to them in time. And I seldom purchase in case quantities ( I think the last time I did was for Huet in 2002), because there is just so, so much wine flowing out there that it's hard to ever feel regret when that last bottle flows.
In some ways, the building-a-cellar philosophy is as endearing as the home built by a person instead of a commercial homebuilder: you live, you learn, and sure, maybe the windows could have been placed better, the patio enclosed, etc., but it is something you did, and reflects the idiosyncracies of the person behind it.