Aging wine

[winecollector]

cd4814- These guys make some good points regarding cellar size. Within a couple of years of your getting serious with wine collecting, you'll likely find your original plans become obsolete. I designed my cellar with the possibility of expanding it to two to three times its current size, just in case.

Also, when I got back into wine collecting about 3 years ago, I never spent more than $30 a bottle during the first year. Now, it's nothing for me to spend $100 a bottle for some Opus, or more for some Haut Brion or Rothschilds.

Oh, and by the way- my current cellar can store about 600-700 bottles, though I only have about 250 to 300 in there right now. When I go on a buying spree, it's nothing for me to buy 80 to 100 bottles in a couple of months time. But for now, I'm concentrating more on the drinking than stocking up.