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mjs wrote:

mychurch wrote:Ozzie

i Like your positive thinking, but ‘1 in, 1 out’, sounds like a dream. Good luck. My guess is that ‘move house’, ‘extend house’ or ‘start a 2nd cellar in someone else’s house’ are on the cards. If not than ‘bigger drink now rack’, ‘bigger drink now fridge’, ‘2nd drink now fridge’ , ‘more external storage’ or even ‘sliding under bed storage’ will become options.

My goal for the year is the same as last year: 1 in, 1 out.

Sounds a bit like my current situation which is driving a mildly robust resolution to catalog my wine more rigorously. Am in the throes of shifting from Melbourne to Adelaide, I have wine in a "cellar" under the house (really just underfloor crawl space) and separate storage at Kennards. Kennards started off fairly modestly a couple of years ago as an overflow from the house, which was getting over full, so I took a space for ~30 doz. Well, wasn't long before I had to shift to another locker for 60+ doz and that is now full

Back at home, I am pulling stuff out getting ready to shift it all to Adelaide next week, where the new house has a reasonable stand up cellar. I thought I had about 55-60 doz under the house. Turns out that it's closer to 75 doz and I doubt that it's all going to fit in the new cellar.

The Kennards stash in Melbourne will go to Kennards in Adelaide or similar later this year when the weather is more favourable, but it looks like I might have to send some of the house stash to Kennards in a couple of weeks.

So, I definitely need a better handle on cellar stock, the last Excel database went by the wayside about ten years ago I think. So, definitely room for improvement there. In that time I seem to have gone from a modest 50+ doz under the house to about 135 doz in a couple of places. I think I have also been in the 2 in, 1 out camp for the last 24 mths, so maybe I need to moderate my buying as well.

Best wishes for a festive end to 2020 and a Happy New year to all forumites. May you drink well in 2021!

mjs wrote:Well, the move has happened, turns out I was even worse at estimating quantities at home than I thought. About 1000 bottles and miscellaneous magna and bigger under the house in Melbourne (I originally thought it was 600+ bottles, then 800 bottles on reassessment, I was clearly wrong ) all shipped with the household contents to Adelaide. I made sure that they stacked the wine in the middle of the container, so it got some sort of insulation from surrounding boxes. Has all arrived intact, and have now stashed about 60 doz in the house cellar and a further 24 dozen of more recent stuff in Kennards Thebarton. All good and enjoying the fruits of the cellar!

Ozzie W wrote:

mjs wrote:Well, the move has happened, turns out I was even worse at estimating quantities at home than I thought. About 1000 bottles and miscellaneous magna and bigger under the house in Melbourne (I originally thought it was 600+ bottles, then 800 bottles on reassessment, I was clearly wrong ) all shipped with the household contents to Adelaide. I made sure that they stacked the wine in the middle of the container, so it got some sort of insulation from surrounding boxes. Has all arrived intact, and have now stashed about 60 doz in the house cellar and a further 24 dozen of more recent stuff in Kennards Thebarton. All good and enjoying the fruits of the cellar!

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