Does this qualify as a carpool?

I drove up to Garagiste in Seattle yesterday to pick up the remaining 10 bottles from my year’s worth of purchases.  For some reason come shipping season they never seem to send them to me.  They only ship twice a year, maybe more, but either way they don’t send what I bought. There is probably something I am missing in how they do things but I have not bothered to find out, so I don’t blame them, at all. I do like the company, but I realized that whilst I can wait for shipments from other wine stores coming from other states, I don’t really like waiting over a year for what I ordered to arrive. They send out these great emails that tempt me to impulse buy right then, but then waiting so long takes the fun out of it for me. If I was buying large quantities of these small production wines it would make sense and the wait would be worth it, because if I could afford to buy that much then I probably have a cellar full of items to tide me over.  I have also realized that because I don’t have much to spend some of what I have purchased is available through other places for a little bit more. So, saving $2 on one bottle doesn’t make a whole lot of sense when there is only 10 of them.

What did I buy?

• 3 bottles1990 Clos Baudoin (moelleux) 
• 1 2005 Saggi (Washington)
• 1 2006 Souhaut St. Epine (Northern Rhone)
• 1 2005 Bagatelle Manoir de la Tete (Loire)
• 1 1994 Schloss Schonborn Kabinett (Germany)
• 1 1994 Schloss Schonborn Spatlese (Germany)
• 1 2005 Virely-Rougeot (Burgundy)
• 1 2003 Presbytere (Bordeaux)
   

I am excited about most of them for different reasons; the Souhaut being an “underground” producer using natural yeasts and old-fashioned methods; the spatlese because I don’t drink much riesling over 10 years old and I’d like to see how it holds up; the Presbytere because they make it using the same methods as the 19th century; the Saggi because it’s from Washington and a collaboration between Italian Folonari’s and Long Shadows; the Clos Baudoin because I love Sauternes and this has been compared to it.  The rest I hope to enjoy but for no special reason.

With the addition of these I now have 40 bottles in my cellar! I know it’s not much by comparison to a vast majority of cellartracker users, but it has good variety and I am proud of it.