How do you know your palates changed..when you have to..

[TheEngineer]

How do you know your palates changed..when you have to change the allocation of racking space in your cellar.

This is the second major re-racking of my cellar since I started on this wine journey. First time was in my old house when a cellar that looked like it was from all over the world (and it was) started to resemble some major regions and I had to start organizing geographically versus by varietal.

This time I started to need more space for an increasing Champagne, Burgundy, italian and California to a reducing Bordeaux, Germany, Spanish, Rhone.

I'm not sure if this is temporary or not, but I've but last week was the first week I bought a case of bordeaux in three years... and I still love Germans but my Spanish and Rhone is dwindling and I can't afford to replace them...I mean I love Unico but when you can buy 4-12 bottles of insanely good barolos for the same price.....

I hate my burgundy increase because I love the wines so much but the prices are so insanely high nowadays. Barolo's from the 2010 are great wines that start at $30-$40 and $80 will buy a great bottle..and for treats even the Ornellaia seems like a steal versus Unico.... I think I've purchased more Italians from the '04, '07 and '10 vintage than anything else right now ....and trusty Napa/Sonoma....2012 will be great.

Looking back at this explanation, I'm not sure that the palate change is the driver here. It looks more like budget.... anyone else going through this?