Originally Posted by
arjunrc
I am embarrassed to post my cellar list here. Lots of rare, great and extremely expensive wines being listed here. I like drinking wine every evening and try to keep each bottle price less than $40 (with a few rare exceptions), and usually less than $30. Having said that, I've concluded I like oaky wines and usually ones that have the words 'smokey', 'leathery', 'earthy' in them and 'blueberries' listed in the fruity tastes. Like wines that are more full bodied. Cabernet, Nebbiolo and certain types on Sangiovese and Pinot Noirs are varietals I like, but I don't know enough to identify other types to hone down on what works best for me by just looking at bottles in a shop (I have tried to read up on regions/years but never manage to keep them in my mind, especially since normally avoidable wineries seem to produce classics in some years, etc. - too many things to remember). So instead, I've teamed up with the awesome Erick Urbina of Pearson's wine in Washington DC - he's been building combination cases for me once in 2 months. On my end, I catalog every wine using Vivino Pro and rate the tastes, and then let Erick know what I liked/did not like and he modifies my next combination case. So far so good.
Yep, I've not yet commented on what my top wines are, because they'd likely be your worst
When I bought most of those Bordeaux 20-25 years ago, I was typically paying $20-40 a bottle. It's only because of the wine boom in China that the stuff has typically gone up ten-fold in value - while inflation has probably gone up only 3x during the same timeframe. And that's why I've been selling the stuff. 99% of the stuff I actually drink is stuff I still pay under $40 a bottle, with a big slug of it being in the $15-20 range.
Quite a bit of what I actually drink nowadays is Argentine Malbecs and Chilean cabs, and Aussie Shiraz and California Zinfandels that today costs under $20. The more I've tasted, the more I've come to be comfortable with my own tastes rather than what wine-writers tell me I should like best.
Originally Posted by
ma91pmh
out of curiosity who did you sell through? i sold a bunch of 2000s last year through farr. they were talking their book down during the initial process but actually ended up getting great prices
BTW, the broker I've been using is OWCwines in San Diego.