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Collectors

Wine collectors are a breed apart; they build up their cellars with the notion of whittling away at it as they go. Every bottle of wine you open literally becomes a part of you, and it means there is one less bottle of that wine left in the world. I’ve met many different types of collectors since I started this business, and they are an eclectic, eccentric bunch. People who spend large amounts of money collecting perishable things have to be a little nuts. The definition of a collector is someone whose purchasing outpaces his consumption. Every collector is a combination of these twelve basic characteristics. Which one(s) are you?