This is getting out of control...

First, I bought 3 bottles of 2001 Insignia...

then I bought 3 more...

then I bought 2001 Bond...

then Quilceda...

then I split Sloan with Pyang...
(well at least I'm not as much of a buying junkie as he is)

then more 2001 Bordeaux futures, including 26 bottles of Sauternes...

then Martinelli (maybe I AM just as bad as Pyang)...

and so on, and so on.

I THINK I NEED A SUPPORT GROUP!

Wine Spectator forumites join in consolation!

-Brettay

Sounds like an average week on the boards.

Joe

Join the club. I really think this can become almost an illness.

we all need dr. phil 1 at least you know something wrong!

Just think of all the money you saved when you split the Sloan.

Next month I want everybody to only list 10 of bottles they buy for April. That way I will only 5.

Wow.....I feel a lot better after reading that!!!

In the last month is was CdP, madeira, Darioush, Rudd, Ramey, Bond, Whitehall Lane, Lewis & Kobalt orders. Anybody have a Sloan order they want to split with me?

Eh, call it a hobby and you'll feel better. I can think of far worse things people spend tons of $$ on.

it's real easy to stop. just ask a favor from a winery. like..."could you hold my check until the 15th"(with it being the 13th)?"

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You can always get a job in the wine or hospitality industry. That way you get a lot of gifts, drink hundreds of great wines each month, and really don't make enough money to buy too much of your own. Now you know why we work soo hard to sell the stuff

It is indeed an illness that affects all of us , at least we will go down with an ear to ear on our face from all of this wine!

Ron,
I may be able to sell a bottle or two of Sloan to you, i will know soon and will post on boards, or if i can make it, i will see you in Pasadena next month.

red4life

That's really not that much wine.

What you have is a minor illness. When you get really sick, the list will be longer.

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"One may dislike carrots, spinach, beetroot, or the skin on hot milk. But not wine. It is like hating the air that one breathes, since each is equally indispensable."

Marcel Ayme`

I notice that the 2002 Wm. Fevre Chablis' will be arriving in a few days. And those 2002 German Rieslings sound mighty good...

Derek

acaronianasa

Ron,

You can have my allocation of sloan if pyang doesn't take it. I compensate wine spending by minimizing if not eliminating non-essentials such as food and clothing

I equate it to the hobby I had as a kid collecting baseball cards. When I score a great deal on a great bottle of wine it reminds me of the feeling I had as a kid when I traded my next door neighbor (dodger fan)a Duke Snider for a Willie Mays rookie card. Nothing like it.

GKM

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Sign me up-

Misery truly does love company!

You'll find out where the line is between "hobby" and "addiction" after your credit line is maxed out.

"I wish God was alive to see this." --Homer Simpson

I have a wedding coming up to save money for... I realized the pit of wine buying I was falling into, and with some support from my fiancee, we put a buying restriction into place.

First, we said we wouldn't buy any more until 2004. That was in November I think.

Second, after a couple of purchases, we extended the buying ban until the wedding in May. We have enough in the cellar to drink until then, was our rationalization.

We also exempt white wine, which is typically for guests (we're in denial about how much we actually drink ourselves). We exempt gifts. We exempt what we buy at restaurants. And I think we exempt purchases for the future (e.g., a bottle of 1998 Wolf Blass Black Label for my birthday next year).

Don't tell her I have a bid in on some wines at WineBid.com!

We are saving money... That was our goal. We're not as strict as we could be, but every bit helps. The nice reward is that we drink more of the good stuff from our cellar than we would have. And that's the best part of the trade-off of all!

gave up trying to stop a few years ago - now i just try and minimize the damage

My buying sprees come in bursts. A few months ago I wasn't buying anything. Now there's all sorts of goodies I want to buy.

It is a sickness!!

lentini,

I won't tell your fiancee...

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ask your wife for the money each time you feel the urge to buy. you'll stop buying wine

Soooo...do you still have the Willie Mays rookie card or did you hawk it to buy wine?

Kevin

As actor John Hurt said in it that American classic, The Big Chill, "have you ever made through a day without at least one rationalization?"

GKM