how many bottles in your collection?

[Bucko]

I think that people confuse the term "collector." A more appropriate term might be "collector/consumer." I collect wine, place it in the cellar for proper aging, then consume it in later years. I hover around 2K.

There are true collectors of wine who look to sell the wine at appreciated prices years later. Sometimes they win, sometimes they do no better than the stockmarket.

Then there are flippers. These people get on cult wine lists, buy all that they can, then "flip" them at auction houses for very inflated prices. These folks are pond scum in my books...... [img]http://38.118.142.245/ubb2/mad.gif[/img] [img]http://38.118.142.245/ubb2/mad.gif[/img] [img]http://38.118.142.245/ubb2/mad.gif[/img]

Then there are plain old consumers who grab a bottle off of the shelf for dinner that night.

Finally, there is WW, who has a bottle surgically attached to his hand. It is a magical bottle that never runs dry. Scientists are perplexed. WW is happy. The dogs hide under the porch........