Keeping Pace With My Drinking
I've written a number of times about " my drinking problem". As I've noted it's really more of a shopping problem: In the past I've tended to buy wine (and liquor) faster than I drink it, causing my shelves and cabinets to fill, and some of the wine to spoil before I get to it. So let's check in on how I'd doing with managing my shopping problem.
Four months ago I had 79 bottles of wine in my collection. Today (I just counted as I was putting away a few bottles in the cellar) I have 80. I plan to open one and enjoy it with a grilled steak dinner tonight, which will bring me back down to 79. Well, maybe 79.5. I'm keeping level- or close enough to it.
I figured before that 75-80 is a good level to maintain. It allows me to keep a stock of a number of different varieties of wine and age those which benefit from years on the shelf.
I've shifted most of my wine buying to Costco. Wine country trips just don't interest me the way they did the past few years. When I'm in Costco anyway for household shopping once every 3 weeks or so it's tough resisting the allure of buying good wines at great prices. I bought 3 bottles this past weekend and 5 a few weeks before. Though 2 of those 5 I gave away as party gifts so not part of my shopping problem. Overall I'm keeping my shopping habit in harmony with my drinking habit of about one bottle a week.
Four months ago I had 79 bottles of wine in my collection. Today (I just counted as I was putting away a few bottles in the cellar) I have 80. I plan to open one and enjoy it with a grilled steak dinner tonight, which will bring me back down to 79. Well, maybe 79.5. I'm keeping level- or close enough to it.
I figured before that 75-80 is a good level to maintain. It allows me to keep a stock of a number of different varieties of wine and age those which benefit from years on the shelf.
I've shifted most of my wine buying to Costco. Wine country trips just don't interest me the way they did the past few years. When I'm in Costco anyway for household shopping once every 3 weeks or so it's tough resisting the allure of buying good wines at great prices. I bought 3 bottles this past weekend and 5 a few weeks before. Though 2 of those 5 I gave away as party gifts so not part of my shopping problem. Overall I'm keeping my shopping habit in harmony with my drinking habit of about one bottle a week.