Beware of the Wine Burnout

Earlier this week, we opened up a bottle of Chateau Ste. Michelle Ophelin. We had served it at the wedding reception and because we purchased all our own alcohol, we overbought and ended up with about 8-10 bottles of each of the wines we had served. (in addition to cases of beer, half-gallons of liquor, etc) Well, because we only had the capacity to store 56 bottles at the time, the wedding wine was pretty much what we drank for a while. As you can imagine, we got really burned out from it-we almost dreaded drinking it. (Imagine-dreading a wine!!) After that, we steered clear of the wedding wines for a little bit, even when we had them, we didn’t really appreciate why we liked it so much in the first place.

Well, I think we’re officially over the Wedding Wine Burnout, because when I had the Ophelin I was pleasantly surprised that I enjoyed it so much. We had the 2004 at the wedding and this was the 2005, so there’s one difference, but overall, I really liked it.

However, it did make me realize that I really enjoy a variety of wine and makes me think twice about stocking up on cases- I don't want Wine Burnout again!!! Of course, unless I can either split cases with people OR until we have a larger area to store them. Splitting cases will work in the meantime, so if you have some wine loving friends, next time you see a sale of something, particularly stuff you can’t get in your city, go in on a large multi case order. We did that recently with 3 other couples/people, and ended up with 2 bottles of this, 4 bottles of that, 6 bottles of this, etc. It’s a really nice mix where we had enough to drink it when we wanted, but not too much that we felt like that’s ALL we could drink.

So…next time you find a favorite, beware of the Wine Burnout. It could happen to you.