well I guess I should contribute m 0.02$ ---(pretty much corresponds to the size of my cellar in comparison to some of the posts :) )
red: italy (mostly Chianti) 35 France 17 Spain 5 Chile 4 US 3 Australia 4 Argentina 3 Portugal 1
white France 5 (alsace and sancerre) Italy 2 US 1
In general they are in pairs or tripples (none more than 7). Nothing old at all i think 91 is as far back as it goes and I think ill be drinking it soon.
..Chris
Salut/Hi Bill Spohn,
Following up on me previous post and (relying like you on an old Dos database program) breaking down my French wines.
le/on 11 Jan 2004 01:22:00 GMT, tu disais/you said:-
I tend to buy my regulars (some bergerac and sw wines) in dozens. That said, most are in singles!
Bordeaux 63 Burgundy 33 SW France 43 Alsace 28 Rhone 12 Bergerac 58 Loire 21 Champagne 9 Other 31
But all that will change shortly when I go to Oullins "Vin Passions" on the
24th of the month. Last year it was the most exciting wine show I've been to for ages with about 85 to 90% of the growers there making wines that I'd like to buy. However at the time there was no money budgeted for wine. This year I've put aside a bit, and will be going back to buy!Seems odd to use a spreadsheet for database purposes. But let me tell you that Access is even worse to learn. I've played with it a couple of times, and found it a nightmare.
I am familiar with Excel, as I use it to keep track of my Rhododendron 'holdings' (about 800), but the thought of entering 4000 bottles of wine makes me quail (funny, I never thought to wonder if they use caille the same way in French....).
I agree - I've played a bit with Access and choose not to spend the time necessary to learn it when Excel will do what I need.
Both actually. The only upper end stuff here is Grange, Balmoral, and Roxburgh. I have not collected them in the past, and I do not have access to tastings of good ones here. I like Roxburgh Chardonnay, but cannot afford Grange. Big alcoholic warm climate wines are not my cup of tea anyway. The locally available lower end Penfolds et al seem coarse to me.
I found this last week at the local store for $5/375 ml. I just want to try it.
Tom Schellberg
Just drink faster and it will cure the need to cellar :-)
As my wife is fond of pointing out, if I stopped buying wine now and drank a bottle every day, I'd be good for more than 10 years.......
Ohhhh German wines - in my opinion there is no beating a good quality German riesling both on quality and price. Speaking in general here - although I enjoy and appreciate the purity of fruit that New Zealand rieslings show at their best, and although the Grosset rieslings are possibly my favouites of all Australian wine - I prefer to drink good quality German riesling.
Admittedly every time I open a bottle I'm transported back to one of my favourite OE (Overseas Experience) trips where my husband and I hired a car (a beautiful silver coloured Mercedes) and drove around the Mosel and the Rhine Rivers visiting wineries and exceeding our check in luggage weight limit with our booty. So you could say I'm looking at the wine through rose (or silver coloured) glasses.
However at the moment I must admit to drinking more New Zealand rieslings than German . They too are price competitive (long may that continue) and I particularly enjoy the offerings of Felton Road (a winery in Otago) as well as Dry River (Martinborough based).
Regards
Siobhan
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