I couldn't remember when I started, but I have got into the habit of either collecting or photographing the label of every wine I had tried (unless I had already got a label of the same vintage already) as well as making tasting notes. Initially I used a Japanese product but the retailers stopped selling it and the importer refused to sell to me directly even on a volume basis. So now I improvise by ordering some strong transparent adhesive sheets and thin cards. Initially I bought the ring binders from the label suppliers, but they soon ran out of space. Then I used the binders for First Day Covers, but they fill up quite quickly as well. I used different coloured binders for different "sections" of my collection. The blue books are for Bordeaux , and although I played around with having them grouped as 1st, 2nd, 3rd... growths, I finally settled on group them by appellations. For the picture above, you can see if fact that the top and bottom halves are from different sections. I submitted this photo (which was not eventually published) to accompany my article on wine label collecting, which was published in the May 2005 issue of Wine Now, but that is a tidbit for another day.
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