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So the Coravin is a cool thing, but just too much for the average person, or even the above average wine collector. The refills cost too much. I know one wine c
by myrandomcomment 6y ago
So the Coravin is a cool thing, but just too much for the average person, or even the above average wine collector. The refills cost too much. I know one wine company here in NorCal that has one that they hacked with a line to a commercial grade tank of argon to reduce the cost (a Coravin on a long tube to a big tank...and yes they are all ex-techies). I have thought about getting one for awhile but the cost is just too much and I own 2672 bottles right now (yes, I may have a problem, but it down from a high of 4907 - Covid times). For the most part any bottle we open gets finished in 2 days. For any $$ bottle, it is opened with friends (not in Covid time but..) and it will get finished that evening.
The real interesting use for the Coravin is for when you have a number of the same bottles and you want to taste it over time to see how it ages. Buy a case, set it down and Coravin a bottle and taste it every year to see the progression.
Anyway wine is a fun thing to get into as long as you understand that $$$ does = best. I have had some $1000 bottles that are amazing wines, but not more amazing then a $100 bottle. The exception would be some very very old bottles 30+ years, but that is an acquired taste as old wine is very different from the normal today to 10 years that most people drink.
- tomcam 6y agoWait you drank 2300 bottles in the last 10 months?
- throwaway1777 6y agoYou can also sell or donate wine...
- stjohnswarts 6y agoI generally take all donations offered at parties.
- myrandomcomment 6y agoI have donated wine for charity auctions. Checking...says 218 bottles.
- mauvehaus 6y agoI was more impressed by the number of significant figures. If I had to guess, I'd say I have 2 or 3 bottles around just now. I can't even manage one sig fig, and it isn't because I started with over 4,000 bottles.
- myrandomcomment 6y agohttps://www.cellartracker.com/ https://www.cellartracker.com/ Run it on an old iPad mounted by the cellar door. It took weeks to put all the data in the first time.
- CydeWeys 6y agoPeople that have that much wine are collectors. The fate of most of what they have is to be sold on, not drank by them.
- stjohnswarts 6y agoThat's what I'm thinking. How?? I mean unless you're throwing a party every day or two, but that doesn't jive with "covid times"
- myrandomcomment 6y agoNo, sorry. Poor choice of phrasing. That as the maximum number of bottles I reached since I started to keep track. That’s number is from 2017. We had a few big parties in 2017/18 that cut that number down. I use an application called CellerTracker. It’s a great app. I have an old iPad mounted in a stand next to the door of the cellar and make sure to record what gets drunk.
- tomcam 6y agook we all feel much better about your well-being