intro

I guess an introduction is due. Maybe you want to peek inside my cellar? You can do it here:

http://www.cellartracker.com/list.asp?iUserOverride=14437

Not amazing, but it keeps my wife and I very happy. I'm relatively new to the whole collecting wine thing. Trying to save it for a few years to get the most out of it. Instead of just going to Ralph's and popping open the bottle as soon as you get home (which I am definitely not opposed to). I just think that it will be so cool to be able to open a bottle from 2001 in 15 years. Or just show up to a party w/ an old bottle of wine in hand. No one can beat that :) Well, at least no one who's not an even more impressive wine collector.

As much as I would like to be buying Bordeaux futures for a couple hundred a bottle, I don't really see me doing it anytime in the future ... unless of course I find that elusive suitcase full of cash. My ideal bottle of wine costs less than $40 and comes from the Central Coast area of California (Santa Ynez, Los Olivos, Lompoc, Santa Barbara, Paso Robles, etc) ... it's really my first love. I went to school at UCSB and went to Santa Ynez as often as possible to go wine tasting. Now that I live in LA my wife and I still go around 8 times a year. Although I also enjoy the NorCal wines as well. I just feel an afinity towards to the Central Coast wineries. And I imagine this will change, as my knowledge and experience with wine grows, so shall my preferences.

First, and foremost, this is a hobby. My wife and I have found something that we both love, and it is something that we share together. I like to do the research and the reading, but in the end she's got the better palate. I just know if it's good or not. :) Hence why it's such a great thing for us as a team. We have all the bases covered.

That's it for the intro ... on pace for way too many posts in one day ....