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Default 2017 Cellar Inventory

On Tuesday, May 2, 2017 at 3:30:42 PM UTC-4, Mark Lipton wrote:
> Having just reorganized and reinventoried my cellar, I now can summarize
> its contents by various criteria. So, courtesy of the nifty tool that
> is Cellartracker, I can tell you that the geographical distribution of
> my wines is:
>
> France (65.5%)
> Burgundy (24%)
> Beaujolais (7.7%)
> Cote de Beaune (4.8%)
> Cote de Nuits (4.6%)
> Chablis (2.9%)
> Rhone (19.4%)
> N Rhone (12.7%)
> S Rhone (6.3%)
> Loire (10.9%)
> Touraine (6.7%)
> Pays Nantais (3.6%)
> Bordeaux (5.2%)
> Medoc (3.3%)
> Libournais (1.9%)
> USA (15.4%)
> CA (14.2%)
> Sonoma (5.4%)
> North Coast (2.7%)
> Napa (2.1%)
> Central Coast (1.5%)
> Sierra Foothills (1%)
> Oregon (1.2%)
> Germany (11.5%)
> Baden (3.5%)
> MSR (2.1%)
> Württemberg (2.1%)
> Rheinhessen (1.7%)
> Franken (1.2%)
> Nahe (0.6%)
> Pfaltz (0.4%)
> Italy (5%)
> Piedmont (4%)
> Campania (0.6%)
> Lombardia (0.2%)
> Tuscany (0.2%)
> Spain (1.5%)
> New Zealand (0.6%)
> Austria (0.4%)
>
> By appellation, the biggest allocations a Chateauneuf (5.6%), St.
> Joseph (4.6%), Fleurie (3.6%), Muscadet S-e-M (3.6%), Morgon (3.1%) and
> Mountlouis (2.9%)
>
> By producer, the biggest allocations a Edmunds St. John (3.3%),
> Chidaine (3.1%), Ridge (2.5%), Coudert (2.3%), Dom. de la Pepiere
> (2.1%), Produttori del Barbaresco (1.9%), Dom. de Pegau (1.7%), Dom.
> Charvin (1.5%), Arnot-Roberts (1.5%), Enderle & Moll (1.5%) and Dom
> Pavelot (1.5%)
>
> By variety, the biggest representatives a Pinot Noir (18%), Syrah
> (16.7%), Gamay (8.3%), Riesling (7.9%), Grenache blends (6.9%), Bordeaux
> blends (5.6%), Chenin blanc (4.6%), Nebbiolo (4%), Melon (3.6%),
> Chardonnay (3.3%), Zinfandel blend (2.5%), Cabernet Franc (2.3%),
> Cabernet Sauvignon (1.7%) and Tempranillo (1.5%).
>
> Interesting to me is that, though Burgundy takes the biggest chunk of
> cellar space, excluding Beaujolais there are no Burgundy appellations in
> the top tier, and only Pavelot cracks the top producer list. OTOH, I
> was heartened to see some of my enological heroes like Steve Edmunds,
> Paul Draper, Alain Coudert, Marc Ollivier and Sven Enderle so well
> represented.
>
> If any of you have access to comparable data, I'd love to see how
> different or similar our cellar compositions are.
>
> Mark Lipton
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I don't have my data handy but mine is remarkable similar with almost no Aussie or NZ wines.