For a wine enthusiast like me, collecting wine can be a lot of fun. I buy wines that I love, wines I know I will want to continue enjoying over the next years but might not be able to afford anymore. But wine can also be a great investment and some might collect wine for investment purposes too. So whether you are just starting your wine journey, or are an experienced wine collector / investor or somewhere in between, tips I provide in this video will guide you in building your wine collection the right way, help you to get the most from the experience and potentially avoid future disappointments.
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**CONTENTS OF THIS VIDEO:
0:00 Introduction
1:34 Tip 1
2:26 Tip 2
3:31 Tip 3
4:42 Tip 4
6:02 Tip 5
6:51 Tip 6
7:39 Conclusion
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Comment below on what wine collecting or investing topics you would like me to cover in future videos. Cheers! 🍷🙌
The dog at the dinner table with a glass and a white collar 😂🤣😅
I never wanted to have a really large wine collection. every time I reached 60 bottles, I stopped buying until I was back to 50. owning a thousand bottles would imply drinking one bottle a day for about three years, which is pointless to me.
add to that the fact I don't own a house and I'm not tied to a city, as I work remotely, and now I don't keep more than 10 bottles with me…
I just found this channel and i think its unpretencious and realistic. Love the part when you said you buy wines that you like and if you aged too long, it may dissapoint you as it has passed its prime.
Some great points in the video. BTW you could be Naomi Watt so sister!
Great tips, especially around self-discipline, which I think is the most important aspect of wine collecting, whether for investment or consumption!
😂 and I thought I was the only one who couldn't just let a bottle of sparkling wine just sit. There's always a good reason to open it. 🍾🥂
Hello Agnes, glat ti tell u that i finally Met Enrico rivetto at rivetto estate in Castiglione falletto… i had a Amazing nebbiolo tasting fron the Red up to Barolo Briccolino 2018..never forget❤️❤️🍷
Correct me if I'm wrong, but investors want years on their labels without putting too much age on their wine, so they store them at lower temperatures. The cigar business does this too. I also watched a video about some super rich Swede that stored his wine at 7℃, and I realized this was probably due to the fact that he bought fine wines that were already considered to be in or near their drinking window. His passion was drinking and serving the best stuff and for him, the rest of it was just a by-product. He could afford paying the premium for pre-aged wines, so he worried more about preservation than aging.
These are just two questions off the top of my newbie head. You're wine nerdy. You could make a more technical aging and storing video some time. Maybe visit some cellars. I'm sure you could gain access to lots of fascinating people and places who do things with wine that us plebs don't normally think about. In fact, in general I think you'd be clever to use your natural interface with the behind the scenes of the wine world. A lot of people talk about wine, but there's a lot fewer with access to your world. Viewers and readers love that kind of stuff. I can think of some wildly successful people who did just that. Kitchen Confidential anyone? Jancis Robinson did some of that too and I loved watching it. Just some brainstorming if you'll have it.
PS: I read a description of Bordeaux recently in the magazine published by the Norwegian Wine Monopoly, and they used west and east bank. In parentheses it said (traditionally called left and right bank) So hah! :p
This might sound funny but I'd collect a few bottles of wine to store away kind of apart of emergency supplies. Nothing all that expensive but in certain situations a few bottles of wine (or hard spirits) would be good trade items. I already have a "rainy day" stash so the leap wouldn't be that far for me. Half bottles might be better for that. Wine bottles get heavy.
Would love to see a video covering the best references for optimum drinking windows for age-worthy wines. The expert reviews I find to be extremely variable when it comes to drinking windows for expensive wines. I generally only store 1-2 bottles of wine from a specific label for a vintage, so if I open too early or too late it’s pretty disappointing cause it’s like you missed out on the whole experience.
Great video! I would love to see where and how you can buy collectable wines no matter where you are in the world
Well said.
I want to know everything about champagne for beginners
I think I need to know why Jason’s mask and the twins from The Shining feature so prominently in the background of your videos!
Fantastic tips and knowledge share, thank you!
This might be too boring to make a good video but what to look for in a wine storage solution (e.g. what features should a good wine fridge have, what's unnecessary?) is something that I've been trying to find more info on as a wine newbie.
Regardless, thanks for the great content!
Would be nice to see reviews of different wine inventory tracking apps
Hi Agnese, There's a lot of common sense in this video which is always welcome and really helpful. When I started building a cellar (in the mid 1980's) I made the conscious decision that for every two bottles I drank I would buy three, it's surprising just how quickly the collection grew. In the 1990's I got the 'En Primeur' bug and was given the best advice ever – buy the best you can, buy three cases, sell two 10 (or more) years later and you'll drink for free. I am fortunate in having a decent cellar, it's in an outside privvy (toilet), the house was built in 1760 and the 'privvy' has 600mm thick solid stone walls, no windows and we have put in a tiled concrete floor, electrics, further insulation and an insulated door, a lot of racking, removed the drains and voila, we have an excellent wine store. It's also in shade under trees so never gets any direct sunlight and I have enough wine stored in it to be able to drink 4 bottles a week for the next 15 years – Sorted!.
My own cellar, stored in bond, comprises two "buckets". Bucket 1 is the stuff I can't afford to drink bought for investment purposes and bucket 2 is the stuff I can afford to drink paid for by the profit on bucket 1. I'd like to be able to drink bucket 1 but I fear it will be a while before I can nonchalantly open up a bottle of Bibi Graetz "Colore" on a wet evening in Autumn just because I fancy it.
My rule of thumb, no more than 20 – 30 good wines in my cellar, and I try to keep it around this numbers as you drink, and not as an investiment in my phylosophy for wines, but each one decides what they wanna do! Cellartracker the best to way to keep track 😁
Great topic. I’ve had many people ask me if I’m collecting…. I buy to drink and share. I have a few cult wines, but 95% of what’s in my cellar I’m ok with opening whenever I’d like to. The only exception is a case of 2012 rosé champagne that I open a bottle every year for my wife’s birthday that she loves. Cheers.
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