Recommendations on wines to cellar

[wdonovan]

I don't know about rethinking cellaring. As long as storage conditions are good, you still have some options. I know we're drinking Bordeaux from '88 to '96 right now. If I didn't cellar, I'd be drinking new stuff that wouldn't be half as good. There are still a lot of Bordeaux that will go 10 years, even the basic Rhones will survive half that, Chateauneufs - 10 for sure. Yes you have to be careful. Read reviews, pick the wines yourself. That's part of the fun in having your own caves. You admit to having one experience in trusting that job to others, whose motives are obviously different than yours.
One question though.... why the obligatory 10 year restock? Why not replenish as you go? Then you always have some wine with age on it. With your present method you always start out young, age to ten, wipe out, renew, start out young...... Given the choice, I'd want a perpetual supply of wine just coming into peak.