How much of a minority am I?

[Snakehips]

........ an awful lot of tqt.

Good link. It has provided me with just the name I need (pshed) to describe the construction in which I keep my bikes.
Which btw is made from some old conservatory doors, side panels and a bit of the glass roof.

[LEE]

If I had a house with "a wine cellar" I'd soon be forced to rename it to "a cellar".

Similarly I don't understand the need for those gadgets that reseal an unfinished bottle of wine.  Are they supposed to be ironic?

[perpetual dan]

If I had somewhere to keep wine with the right temperature stability I would. I'm rather fond of a decent wine and our local shop has a  dimly lit section at the end of which I'm rather fond. As it is I don't get more than a dozen bottles in at once.

[Mrs Pingu]

Just been reading the wine section in the Graun, anyone got a share and buy from the wine society? Looks quite good....

[SimonA]

Just been reading the wine section in the Graun, anyone got a share and buy from the wine society? Looks quite good....

Also have a look at Berry Brothers if acquiring a nice selection to drink/sell is your thing. I have had great service from them over the last 10 years with my Cellar Plan.

[Mrs Pingu]

Slightly more investment than I am planning, thanks!

[Ham]

Waitrose are currently doing what they label "Good Ordinary Claret" for a £5 a bottle. With their current 25% off for 6 bottles or more offer, that makes it £3.75 a bottle.  As it does exactly what it says on the label (don't expect anything great) it represents one of the lowest cost quaffable wines around at the moment.

[Mrs Pingu]

I got my share from the Wine Soc, so today I ordered a case of stuff I wouldn't normally drink (mostly) and 2 bottles of port. Should be a voyage of discovery.

Claret and Bordeaux (didn't buy any this time) - not something I normally buy but no idea if that fits in with the styles we normally drink.

[mike]

I stopped used NakedWines when we had a couple of quite unpleasant bottles from them, now I frequent a local independent wine shop run by Fat Paul*, who plays american blues all day and will happily make an excellent coffee and spend half an hour talking rubbish with me while he picks out a couple of cases of wine every month. Normally nothing more than a tenner, with 10% discount for being a regular.  Hedley Wright of Hitchin, if anyones in t' area.

*he's really not that fat, but it's what he introduced himself to me as...

[CAMRAMan]

Why not barcode your individual locations and each bottle? Batch scanners are cheapish nowadays and you could quickly update location/bottle changes.

It might be a bit of a faff, but would ease tracking. You could even set alerts for each bottle/type when peak drinking periods approach, for example.

[Ham]

I've already tested the concept using qr codes reduced to the size that fit on a rack and mobile phone as a reader - that was part of the underlying thought in my mind at the start of this thread. I have in my head a reasonably comprehensive sketch of what the system would look like and how it would work. Doing something about it is something quite different.

[CAMRAMan]

Something like this would make life much easier. Wired ones are even cheaper.

There are plenty of free barcode generating software packages on offer out there.

[Canardly]

I stopped and had a look in the window of our local wine merchant today. He has a breakdown of the costs of a £5 bottle of wine in the window, apparently the the tax on  a bottle in the UK is £2 plus 40p VAT. The moral of the story is that the wine grower after packaging and distribution costs actually gets 13p, which was a bit of a shock for me.

[fuzzy]

I could write some spreadsheet/database goodness for Ham's 'problem', as I did for my former employer's drug store- that had re-order levels built in. I'd have to want to, though. You just give assets attributes, and sort.

You used to work for Charlie Big Potatoes?

Fuck Me fboab- he's seriously bad news