Marco
Barrel Filler
Posts:1046
 | | 02/06/2008 2:10 PM |
| I love cellartracker and do a pretty good job of maintaining an accurate inventory of my wines. Therefore, I am always surprised (in a pleasant way), when I find a good bottle that I didn't know I had. This weeks find was a 2003 Peter Michael Mon Plaisir Chardonnay. I have no idea how or when I got it. Opened it last night. It was delish. About 5 weeks ago I found 2 bottles of 1991 Chateau Montelena Estate CS. I have a dim recollection that I got this on winecommune early last year. Nice! What have you found recently? | | | |
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Winetex
Austin, Texas
Master of Wine
Posts:10796
| | 02/06/2008 2:36 PM |
| | I recently found a bottle of 2005 Peay Rousanne/Marsanne. I thought it was a chard but looked closer and voila. It was a happy surprise. | | | |
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JimmyV
Central Connecticut
Wine Connoisseur
Posts:5110
| | 02/06/2008 3:02 PM |
| Unfortunatley (I guess.. ), my meticulous record-keeping that pre-dates CT largely precludes me from "finding" anything. My double-deep cooling unit is catalogued by an Excel Spreadsheet, so when I am trying to decide what to drink, I pour over (pardon the pun) my wine list which directs me to a specific slot in my unit. I open the unit and go directly to, say, slot 14A-F(ront) or 14A-B(ack). If there is a wine in my unit that is currently not in my spreadsheet, it will be there until the day I die, as I will never reach in that particular slot. As for the wine in my basement it is either in single deep racks out in the open or in styrofoam awaiting placement in either racks or the cooling unit. The wine down there is "turned over" frequently enough such that I can't really "lose" it. Oh, the woes of being anal retentive. | |
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Budman
Master of Wine
Posts:11877
| | 02/06/2008 3:04 PM |
| | I'm anal too. I doubt I'll ever find a 'surprise' in my cellar. | | | |
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jaimetown
DC area
Wine Labeler
Posts:3503
| | 02/06/2008 3:07 PM |
| A bottle of Leroy 1999 Puligny Montrachet 1er Les Pucelles. | | | |
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Daniel Bailey
Grape Puncher
Posts:730
| | 02/06/2008 3:14 PM |
| I haven't had a cellar find in a long time. All of my bottles are now barcoded with the exact location of the bottle attached to each barcode (town; cellar; case location and case number or rack number; column, row; and position (if the rack in question is a double bottle depth)). Hopefully after all of this I won't have another cellar find. | | | |
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AlexRed
Northern VA
Barrel Filler
Posts:1357
| | 02/06/2008 4:17 PM |
| i wish i had to list "town" at the begining of my bottle locations. eheheh...
for me, i find the bottle, then drink it then find it in cellar tracker and "consume it". very difficult to find specific bottles due to the way i have all of my stuff crammed into my storage. that said 99% of it in CT.
i am packed to the gills in my eurocave, under the stairs and at a friends house and i have 166 bottles on the way (and i haven't ordered my littorai yet).
Elf needs "off-site storage" badly.
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JimmyV
Central Connecticut
Wine Connoisseur
Posts:5110
| | 02/06/2008 5:06 PM |
| As opposed to "cellar finds", I suffer more from "cellar losses". That is, I peruse my alleged inventory, pick out a bottle, reach my hand into the the proper slot only to find that the rabbit isn't in the hat and I come out empty-handed. So then I have to go to CT and record the bottle as "presumed drunk". Of course, I am never quite sure if they mean the bottle, or me. | |
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Daniel Bailey
Grape Puncher
Posts:730
| | 02/06/2008 5:33 PM |
| | That's the great thing about barcodes. If I pull a bottle from a cellar (even late in the evening) I just remove the barcode and place it on a piece of paper I keep with a running list of used barcodes. Whenever it is convenient I then go into the software and remove the bottles en masse. This really cuts down on wines that are presumed drunk. | | | |
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JimmyV
Central Connecticut
Wine Connoisseur
Posts:5110
| | 02/06/2008 5:38 PM |
| | Works great as long as the spouse and her friends know the drill! Not sure how reliable that would be in my house. | |
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Daniel Bailey
Grape Puncher
Posts:730
| | 02/06/2008 5:43 PM |
| Granted that can be a problem (on occasion I've had to retrieve bottles from the recycler) but usually Stephanie will just leave any empties she and her friends have created on a kitchen counter top and then I can remove the barcodes before disposing of the bottles. | | | |
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tanglenet
Oakland, California
Wine Bottler
Posts:3214
| | 02/06/2008 5:56 PM |
| Posted By JimmyV on 02/06/2008 5:06 PM As opposed to "cellar finds", I suffer more from "cellar losses". That is, I peruse my alleged inventory, pick out a bottle, reach my hand into the the proper slot only to find that the rabbit isn't in the hat and I come out empty-handed. So then I have to go to CT and record the bottle as "presumed drunk". Of course, I am never quite sure if they mean the bottle, or me.
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JimmyV
Central Connecticut
Wine Connoisseur
Posts:5110
| | 02/06/2008 10:03 PM |
| | No. But in a few years I will. And my wife keeps telling me that before that day arrives we "must" get a professional wine cellar built in our basement complete with deadbolt. I never would have pushed the idea of that kind of capital outlay on such a luxury, but she thinks it is essential that our passive storage in the basement be out of the line of fire of teenagers, especially since the basement has a pool table and pinball machine. | |
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Eric White
San Ramon, CA
Advanced Sommelier
Posts:9247
| | 02/06/2008 10:12 PM |
| Posted By JimmyV on 02/06/2008 10:03 PM
No. But in a few years I will. And my wife keeps telling me that before that day arrives we "must" get a professional wine cellar built in our basement complete with deadbolt. I never would have pushed the idea of that kind of capital outlay on such a luxury, but she thinks it is essential that our passive storage in the basement be out of the line of fire of teenagers, especially since the basement has a pool table and pinball machine.
Jimmy, listen to your wife. I am not proud to say that I remember a passive basement wine cellar with no lock, and several bottles of late-70s Lytton Springs Zinfandel biting the dust without any appreciation for the wine whatsoever  . And yes, this is the fist time I've owned up to it  | | | |
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Appreciative
Beaverton, OR
Grape Fermenter
Posts:418
| | 02/08/2008 4:38 PM |
| | An extra bottle of '01 Shea Estate PN Block 23 that was hiding in a mixed case of Patricia Green wines. For awhile, I was trying to organize wines by the winemaker and not the producer. | | | |
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Edward Bowers
Palm Beach Gardens
Barrel Sampler
Posts:2072
| | 02/09/2008 11:28 AM |
| I get blind sided or happy sided once in a while. For some reason I do not keep up CT. So off to the racks and look, for my selection, and not there. But next to it is a bottle of " Darn I thought I drank that" Goes both ways. To keep the goodies secure, I park my car so the 'goodies' cooler can not be opened. MY S/O has different hours, and when she is home my car is blocking the door. | | | |
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Pool Boy
Laurl, MD (DC suburb)
Master of Wine
Posts:13711
| | 02/10/2008 9:35 AM |
| | I got tired of looking for bottles that I could no longer find and thus fitting the profile of 'presumed drunk' that I finally decided to get my CT up to date and get with the program again. Now I am in the anal retentive camp. I am not so anal as to track what slot a given wine is in anymore though. I move bottles between different storage locations too frequently that I don't want to be bothered with transfer entries in CT. But these days I am staying on top of my CT inventory. I still have to mark off about 40 presumed drunk bottles though as officially D. D as in drunk. | |
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juggernt
Tampa, FL, USA
Wine Bottler
Posts:3420
| | 02/11/2008 11:06 AM |
| My cellar is too small to have finds...I can probably recite off the top of my head each of the 200 or so bottles I have  | |
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David Niederauer
Los Gatos, CA
Master Sommelier
Posts:15756
| | 02/15/2008 10:03 PM |
| We're doing an Old Dead Cow and Cab dinner. I'd forgotten that I have a 1983 Ahlgren, Napa Valley.
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