I was taken by a fit of inspiration or madness ( which I will let you decide), today and pulled the cellar apart to take stock of what was on hand.

For those of you who have any sort of wine cellar/collection, these types of activities can be very interesting exercises with gems being rediscovered and some disappointments along the way.

For me it was mostly a journey of rediscovery and remembering the occasions when particular wines were purchased, who I was with and the 'emotions' the wine had evoked.

An interesting thing I found once I had my cellar laid out before me was not the number of bottles but the clustering of certain varietals that had occurred over time.

for example there are

23 bottles of Semillon

8 bottles of Riesling

12 bottles of Chardonay

13 bottles of Cabernet Sauvignon

and a whopping

53 bottles of Shiraz

Has this ever happened to you?