[Closed] Can you recommend me a good wine to lay down for my kids

www.bbr.com

Have a chat to these folks. Very much recommended.

The trouble with laying down a recent vintage, as I see it, is that you are investing in a relatively unknown quantity. Pop £100 in a bond and splash it, plus interest, on inexpensive booze when they hit 18. Teenagers respect quantity over quality when it comes to liquor when all is said and done.

If it has to last that long, you might need to think about how you are storing it - do you have a cellar or something?

Joe

I can only assume you mean for yourself to enjoy, as I can't imagine an 18 year old caring about a vintage wine. Personally I'd just keep the cash safe somewhere and use it then!

Most wine reaches a peak and then delines. Most (standard) wine only peaks at say 1-4 years. Good wine will peak in say 10 years. To improve by 18 years you'll be looking at an exceptional wine so probably at least £50. The other thing is you dont want to chuck it in the garage either! Find a dealer who will store it for you (in the right conditions)

C

Invest the £100, wait 21 years and buy them a 21YO bottle of single malt distilled the year they were born. I had a 1979 bottle of Lagavulin for my 21st it were lovely.

like this,

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C

So lets get this straight- they are going to get royally ratted on your redwine and fumble with some girls at someones houseparty! 😉

Sod laying it down for them- save it for yourself.

Chris, a fine choice!

I have a case or two of this left;
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As well as some of the '82 as well.

Captain F you must be a zillionaire

C

You'd probably need a good vintage of a good Bordeaux, northern Rhone or Burgandy or one of the exceptional New World reds (probably Californian or Australian) to have any chance of it bring drinkable in 18 years' time. For France 2007 was OK, and for 2009 it's too early to tell how it's going to turn out.

I really don't think £50 a bottle will get you what you need, plus it will have to be well stored which probably means paying for cellaring - not sure how well places are set up for single bottles (or even single cases).

BBR would be your best bet I'd think, but the alternative idea of whisky or cognac may be more realistic.

EDIT: Probably sensible to get more than one bottle of each as well - for a start a single bottle of fine wine isn't much and also there's some risk of corking or oxidisation - how sad would you be to wait 18 years and find your bottle is flawed with no back-up plan?

ChrisE, not at all! Was just lucky to have had some good stuff bought en primeur a long time ago!

I'm in the trade, 2007 Bordeaux is only OK and unlikely to be long lived 2009 looks much better. Port would be my choice

Like the idea of the whisky (glenmorangie is only 15 mles away form the house)

I have a celler under the house but will need to check its the right conditions for the wine...

teenages fumbling at some houseparty..never.. studying hard for exams more like!!

If only one or two bottles, storage is going to be an issue as cellaring is normally for a case or more. 2005 was the mega year for claret so a really top bordeaux from that vintage should last, but port would be a safer bet and more able to cope with not perfect keeping.

I can only assume you mean for yourself to enjoy, as I can't imagine an 18 year old caring about a vintage wine.

Quite the opposite, I think.

Giving them a taste of something [i]really good[/i] when they're more interested in whatever futuristic equivalent of WKD is popular in 2028 should hopefully broaden their horizons.

Wine isn't like whisky, you don't need to develop a taste for it in the same way.