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2017 Cellar Inventory

Having just reorganized and reinventoried my cellar, I now can summarize its contents by various criteria. So, courtesy of the nifty tool that is Cellartracker, I can tell you that the geographical distribution of my wines is:

France (65.5%) Burgundy (24%) Beaujolais (7.7%) Cote de Beaune (4.8%) Cote de Nuits (4.6%) Chablis (2.9%) Rhone (19.4%) N Rhone (12.7%) S Rhone (6.3%) Loire (10.9%) Touraine (6.7%) Pays Nantais (3.6%) Bordeaux (5.2%) Medoc (3.3%) Libournais (1.9%) USA (15.4%) CA (14.2%) Sonoma (5.4%) North Coast (2.7%) Napa (2.1%) Central Coast (1.5%) Sierra Foothills (1%) Oregon (1.2%) Germany (11.5%) Baden (3.5%) MSR (2.1%) Württemberg (2.1%) Rheinhessen (1.7%) Franken (1.2%) Nahe (0.6%) Pfaltz (0.4%) Italy (5%) Piedmont (4%) Campania (0.6%) Lombardia (0.2%) Tuscany (0.2%) Spain (1.5%) New Zealand (0.6%) Austria (0.4%)

By appellation, the biggest allocations are: Chateauneuf (5.6%), St. Joseph (4.6%), Fleurie (3.6%), Muscadet S-e-M (3.6%), Morgon (3.1%) and Mountlouis (2.9%)

By producer, the biggest allocations are: Edmunds St. John (3.3%), Chidaine (3.1%), Ridge (2.5%), Coudert (2.3%), Dom. de la Pepiere (2.1%), Produttori del Barbaresco (1.9%), Dom. de Pegau (1.7%), Dom. Charvin (1.5%), Arnot-Roberts (1.5%), Enderle & Moll (1.5%) and Dom Pavelot (1.5%)

By variety, the biggest representatives are: Pinot Noir (18%), Syrah (16.7%), Gamay (8.3%), Riesling (7.9%), Grenache blends (6.9%), Bordeaux blends (5.6%), Chenin blanc (4.6%), Nebbiolo (4%), Melon (3.6%), Chardonnay (3.3%), Zinfandel blend (2.5%), Cabernet Franc (2.3%), Cabernet Sauvignon (1.7%) and Tempranillo (1.5%).

Interesting to me is that, though Burgundy takes the biggest chunk of cellar space, excluding Beaujolais there are no Burgundy appellations in the top tier, and only Pavelot cracks the top producer list. OTOH, I was heartened to see some of my enological heroes like Steve Edmunds, Paul Draper, Alain Coudert, Marc Ollivier and Sven Enderle so well represented.

If any of you have access to comparable data, I'd love to see how different or similar our cellar compositions are.

Mark Lipton

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Mark Lipton
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Too lazy to do by appellation. Below list is woefully incomplete, offhand I know there is enough unentered wine to be an entire separate cellar. I am not a good record keeper.Things like cru Beaujolais and Pepiere muscadet ar e woefully undercounted. 0% means one or two entered bottles. Never seen a collection with Germany having Baden as #1 (I have some Enderl e and Moll, also uncounted, but not that much) Fun to see

France 64.6% Bordeaux 25.1% Burgundy 24.1% Loire Valley 7.1% Alsace 2.9% Rhône 2.9% Champagne 2.0% Southwest France 0.2% Corsica 0.2% Provence 0.0%

Germany 15.0% Mosel Saar Ruwer 9.3% Nahe 3.3% Rheingau 1.6% Rheinhessen 0.4% Pfalz 0.4% Franken 0.0%

Italy 8.5% Piedmont 6.2% Tuscany 1.2% Sicily 0.3% Veneto 0.2% Campania 0.2% Abruzzi 0.2% Lombardia 0.1% Umbria 0.1% Latium 0.0%

USA 7.8% California 7.8% Washington 0.0%

Austria 1.9% Niederösterreich 1.9% Burgenland 0.0%

Spain 1.5% La Rioja 1.5%

Portugal 0.3% Douro 0.3% Madeira 0.0%

Australia 0.3% South Australia 0.3% Victoria 0.0%

Argentina 0.0% Mendoza 0.0%

Lebanon 0.0% Bekaa Valley 0.0%

Top 10 producer (Pepiere and probably ESJ would be here if I listed everyth ing) Louis Jadot 2.8% Dönnhoff 2.5% Trimbach 2.2% Domaine Huet 2.2% Domaine Robert Chevillon 2.1% Selbach-Oster 2.1% Willi Schaefer 1.8% Joseph Drouhin 1.8% Joh. Jos. Prüm 1.5% Château Lagrange (St. Julien) 1.3% Weingut Josef Leitz 1.2%

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DaleW

I don't have my data handy but mine is remarkable similar with almost no Au ssie or NZ wines.

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Bi!!

On 5/4/17 12:24 PM, Bi!! wrote: Mine is Spain 20%, Oregon Pinot 20%, France 20%, California 20%, Italy

10%, others 10%. My primary labels are Lopez de Heredia 4.5%, Turley 4%, Ayoub 2.5%, Soter 2.55, Casa Dumetz 2%. Everything else 1% or less total 600 bottles.
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Lawrence Leichtman

Wow, fascinating list, Larry. You mention some producers that I've never heard of before.

Mark Lipton

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Mark Lipton

Casa Dumetz is in Los Almos CA near Santa Inez. Sonja Magdevski is a friend, wine writer and excellent wine maker. Mo Ayoub makes absolutely the best Pinots in Oregon in Dundee area.

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Lawrence Leichtman

I have mostly Bordeaux, Cornas, Tuscany, Napa, and Rioja. Today I had to op en 3 bottles until I found something I liked. First a Portuguese reserva my wife bought, which was like sugar water. Then a Tuscany which was better b ut still too sweet. then I played it safe and had a Bordeaux and I was sati sfied.

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Michael Nielsen

Also too lazy to do it properly, and a much smaller total than most of you, but about:

France 62% of which Bordeaux 15, roughly half Sauternes Burgundy 4, mainly white Alsace 11, all white Rhone 20, mainly red; Jura 6 Loire, Cahors, etc.

Germany, 9, and more red than white which surprised me

Italy 7

Spain 7

Argentina 3, Australia 5

US, mainly California, 4

Chile, S. Africa, Georgia, New Zealand, Portugal, Uruguay...

An interesting thread,

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Sheila Page

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