I'm one of 2 people here with a dessert wine as my most common producer

Kracher
JJ Prum
Phelps
Siduri
Quilceda Creek

For a wine site I'm surprised so many people are putting Phelps Insignia down as a producer.

Brian.. I was just yanking your chain!

In order:

1) Phelps
2) Kistler
3) Archery Summit
4) Chateau Montelena
5) tie Quilceda Creek, Janasse, Pegau

Mike

1. Quilceda Creek - 96 bottles equivalent (including 2001 confirmed)
2. Chateau Souverain - 80 bottles equivalent
3. Beaulieu Vineyards - 70 bottles equivalent
4. Chateau Gruaud-Larose - 47 bottles equivalent
5. Dominus - 38 bottles equivalent
6. Neal Family - 36 bottles equivalent
7. Clos du Bois - 33 bottles equivalent (somebody help me drink this...)
7. Joseph Phelps - 33 bottles equivalent
9. Chateau Reignac - 27 bottles equivalent
10. E. Guigal - 24 bottles equivalent

Order keeps changing, but currently:

Lynch Bages (29 x '00, 3 x '96)
Gruaud Larose (29 x '00)
Pride (97, 99, 00, 01)
Montelena (91, 94, 99, 01 futures)
Fontodi (down to 25-30 x '98 CC from 10 cases bought at auction)

Pegau, Neal, and Quilceda Creek are coming on strong.

Mike... Are all those wines yours, or are some just passing thru???

TJ..when are you going to compile the stats on this thread? I'm sure we'd all be very interested in knowing the most popular names folks are holding...

i bet qc is in the top 5

Rosenblum
d'arenberg
Hartford Court
Chateau Dauzac
Shafer (all Relentless!)
Lotsa Catena too (all kinds)

Fontanafredda - 10
d'Arenberg - 10
Rocca della Macie - 8
Produttori di Barbaresco - 7
Allegrini - 6
Montirius - 6

d'Arenberg and Montirus are up there is because I ended up buying six-packs of the 2001 Dead Arm and 2000 Gigondas, respectively, a type of purchase I rarely make.

stealthman:

with antinori number one for me at 5.5% of my cellar, i extrapolated that same percentage for you, that means 1,745 bottles!!! yikes. i need to do some major purchasing to catch up to you.

this is the type of inane stat i would expect TJ to come up with and frankly i'm surprised i beat him to the punch. his computer must be down

Texaswino:

Thank you for the complement. The five above are my largest holdings in the order above.

I admire the precision and organization skills of the posters.

I have to admit, I haven't a clue of my top 5. No wonder it's so hard finding something to drink on any given night......

I guess I need Seek's help again in getting organized.

Haut Brion
Diamond Creek
Phelps
Sparky made wines
Numanthia

The wife is @ the opera, Lincoln Center NYC with a friend.

Baby: put to bed. Finally.

So, had a few free moments. For the heck of it, here it is. Disclaimer: not 100% acurate, but something close to these #s. Will be fun to keep an eye on this over time:

QC: 13 votes
Kistler: 11 Votes
Pride: 10 votes
Phelps: 9 votes
Siduri: 8 votes
Martinelli: 7 votes
Montelena: 7 votes
Shafer: 6 votes
MPs: 6 votes
Beaucastel: 5 votes
B&H: 5 votes
Neal: 5 votes
Melville: 5 votes
Ridge: 4 votes
Loring: 4 votes
Turley: 4 votes
Larose: 4 votes
Montrose: 3 votes
Ojai: 3 votes
Latour: 3 votes
Peter Michael: 3 votes
Numanthia: 3 votes
Clos Pepe: 2 votes

Wow has this thread developed! I was gonna get my stats hat on and start, but you all already commented on that and then there goes LCC stat-ing things out!

Wild!

You all make-a me so proud!

Now, exactly how many bottles/cases are each person's top 5 holding and that would be a truly telly stat when organizing the top list by total bottle/case count. This would allow the stats to grant more weight to folks like GATC and stemor who have loaded up on Riesling producers and show their more proper stature in the greater scheme of VC wine inventory-ification.

heh heh heh

Oh heck, I didn't know I needed to be accurate.

ok TJ, i'll be the first to populate your latest statistical foray

antinori 35
fattoria di felsina 20
tenuta dell'ornellaia 12
e. guigal 9
mondavi 25

i pared down to five for you TJ

here you go....

i'm still sticking with the top ten

1. marquis phillips wines 38
2. reignac (all 00) 23
3. l'ecole #41 (all cabs) 22
4. pichon baron (all 00) 22
5. montrose (00 & 01) 21
6. lafleur (all 99) 18
7. quliceda creek 19 (soon to be 40 )
8. shafer (mostly HSS) 19
9. columbia crest (all reserves) 18
10. pipeau (all 00) 17

i just noticed something about my list. there is only 1 california winery in the top ten.

The last time we did this, my number 1 was Dunn (you buy 2 cases every year, but can never drink them). Well, Winebid solved that for me. (Dunn is not in the top 45 producers) Currently:
1. Behrens & Hitchcock (so many different wines!)
2. Dalla Valle
3. Araujo
4. Greenock Creek
5. Noon
6. Wendouree
7. Pichon LaLande
8. Torbreck
9. Penfolds
10. Togni

hmm. 4 CA, 5 Oz, 1 French. The top 10 represent 21% of the cellar.