I suspect that most of us who enjoy wine own a variety of bottles at a variety of price points. Years ago I started writing the price of the wine on the bottle, because if you keep & store wine for any period of time, it's hard to remember how much you paid for a bottle. (The exception: Mainstream wine that I drink often enough to know the price off the top of my head.)
Last week I came across a bottle in my stash without a price, but seemed to remember buying it after being poured a sample at Whole Foods. I opened on Monday, had a glass & really enjoyed it, vacuum capped it & threw it in the fridge, had a glass or two the next night & finished it the third night. It was a great drinkable wine & I liked it enough to think, "I need to buy more of this. It's a great $10 or $15 bottle of wine."
Today I googled it & realized that I didn't drink an inexpensive everyday wine, but rather Jonata's 2005 El Corazon de Jonata...made by the same people behind
Screaming Eagle.
I guess it could be worse: It's "only" a $70 wine, but not readily available and I only have (had) two bottles. No, I didn't buy it at Whole Foods--though I did find a bottle of
Sea Smoke Southling there today. I bought it from Lot18 a few months ago. I guess OTBN came early for me.
Boys & girls, this is why you need to track the prices you paid for wines!