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Re-stocking the cellar ... what is missing?

Hello, I have used a few days to re-kt my cellar, it being now possible ti enter it without danger toi life and limb (said danger being e g having a bottle of

1988 vintage port falling down and hitting you over the head - fortunately they both survived) and also having a certain order in the cellar, Bourgognes being in one rack, Bordeaux in aNOTHER, Alsace in a third and so on. This gave me a bit of insight into several things. One was, that almost all the wines were too posh, expensive, old or all three to be drunk at almst any conceivable time except insofar as a gang of AFWers were to descend on the Lindgren family home in the hope of being entertained. Another was the lack of certain types of wine. It used to be that we lacked stickies - this is no longer the case, we have an ample supply of various sweet wines from Austria, Italy, France, Australia ... Likewise, fizzy wines have been in low supply, but today there are a few - mostly cheap-ish, it has to be admitted - too few Crystal, Salon, and Krug. Bother said Pooh. None of any of them, to be exact. What is a real problem is that we are running out of Italians, excepting Barolos that are slated for long-time cellaring. I have also relaised that we are deperately low on wines from the Iberian peninsula - particularly Spanish (I have found that I like Priorat a lot). I do believe we should also stock up on wines from the ANZAC part of the world - Cabs from Western Australia, Sauvignon Blanc from NZ ... the possibilities of ending in bankruptcy are limitless. I mean, I don't have to THINK about stocking up on Bourgogne, that happens automatically ... as does Rhone Valley and Southeastern France. SO, that is what we appear to need - pray tell me, what is missing in YOUR cellars? Cheers Nils
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Nils Gustaf Lindgren
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Other than a few cases of Leeuwin Chardonnay and a few bottles of Grange I really don't have any Aussie wines to speak of. I occasionally find a lost bottle or two of D'Arenberg or Hill of Grace. I stopped buying them a few years ago when then started being a bit too homogenized. I am woefully lacking in Italian whites and NZ SB's and I kick myself for not buying more of them. I'm not a big GV drinker but I usually buy a case of Hofer 1L bottles each spring and a mixed case or two of Rose's for summer quaffing.

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rvwrlee

CT being ... Cellar Tracker? The thought of entering our cellar content in a database is simply ... too tiresome. This way, you find things you didn't know you had - unfortunately, it cuts both ways - you also find that you lack what you thought you had. Such as, didn't we have half a case of Tour du Bon? Apaprently not.

Repeated visits to Alsace and Coche-Bizouard helps us in keeping up to date on whites (even if most of the C-B wines are of the ruminative kind which would do well with another 5-6 years in the cellar, especially now that the oxidation problem appears to be solved).

We like RIojas too. ANOTHER thing we lack. DAMN!

CHeers

Nils

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Nils Gustaf Lindgren
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Lawrence Leichtman

In general, sturdy, ageworthy reds are overrepresented in our cellar. What are underrepresented are Rieslings (as Jean only recently convinced herself that she liked them), Cru Beaujolais (they just disappear too fast! :( ), Burgundy (got in late) and Italian wines (too ignorant for too long). My purchases of the last few years have attempted to rectify the situation, but it's a slow evolution.

Mark Lipton

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Mark Lipton

I am forever short on whites. Loire, Alsace, Burgundy, they just evaporate. Yet they could use aging even more than my reds.

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Mike Tommasi

Cannot say that we do. We should, we ought to, we have mortgages to be paid in euros meaning they have gone sky high (since we get our wages in Swedish kronor), and most of the wines we buy are sooner or later paid in euros, or other currency more stable than our meager tin ... I suppose wine still has a high priority chez les Lindgrens ...

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Nils Gustaf Lindgren
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Lawrence Leichtman

Karen wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@x29g2000prf.googlegroups.com:

I now have little "disposable income". I still get ads from auction houses and some wines are dirt cheap. I don't have the money to take advantage of them. My cellar is depleting, but it should last a few more years without replinshment. I wind up having expensive wines with inexpensive foods.

Fred.

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Fred

Karen, I don't view good wine as a luxury item any more than good food. Then again I live in a place where you can drink very well for under 10 EU, if you know where to look. I just received

2 cases of CdR from Clos des Cazaux in Vacqueyras, for example for 4.70 / bottle delivered.

I must say I think not buying wine to lay down is a false economy, that decent little claret will be only OK on release but after 5 years will make a good drink. In commerce it will be correspondingly more expensive (if you find it at all) so you save money by buying it now.

I'll also say that I always watch my wine spending and will only rarely pass say 30 EU on a bottle.

Glad to hear you have a secure job, now _that's_ not chopped liver!

-E

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Emery Davis

Yeah! I can bring Swedish crisp bread!

Nils

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Nils Gustaf Lindgren

... and it is quite good with smoked salmon.

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Nils Gustaf Lindgren

Interesting thread

what is it about German wines, I have about 4 in my cellar according to CT and one alsace, yet claret and white burgundy are really over represented. German rieslings are great value despite the slide of pound against Euro.

are we all in the same boat re money, just had a letter from my bank saying my easy access account is now earning 0.5%, might as well spend it on wine.

JT

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John T

You are lucky they are not charging you 0.5% for the bother of keeping your pounds in a vault... :-)

OT interesting question: How come when banks go under, those who had savings lose them, but those who borrowed money still have to pay the loan back? Is this not a double standard?

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Mike Tommasi

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