How many btls of Port do YOU open in a yr. from your cellar?

[Andy Velebil]

My mother in law (87y.o.) has been visiting. I mentioned this thread and what appeared to me to be the low number of bottles that members drink, including that nobody else had said they open over 100 bottles a year. Her immediate remark was "But that is less than two bottles a week! Surely anybody who drinks Port uses more than that."

We then decided that the difference must be because we drink Port every night at dinner with cheese and biscuits. We further concluded that if we did not drink it at dinner then our annual consumption would be nil because we never have it at any other time. Since neither of us, nor my wife, could possibly contemplate not having cheese and biscuits at some stage each dinner time, our consumption will remain as is.

My consumption is far greater than the bottles I opened from my cellar. As my count doesn't include other tastings and vacations to Portugal and the UK where lots of other bottles are opened. It also doesn't take into account my love for Douro, California, and even some Burgundy (gasp) wines, which I buy and open a lot of each year (sans the Burg's which are mainly from friends cellars).