Birth-year wine success stories?

My son will be 40 in January. Gulp. I bought traditional '84 Cali Cabs and blends, as I did in all good vintages back then. We’ve enjoyed many bottles of '84 Ridge Monte Bello, Diamond Creek, Dunn HM, Heitz Martha’s, Dominus, and others together over the years. I bought those wines because they were excellent wines from a good vintage that I’d buy anyway, not because my son happened to be born that year. If he had been born in '83, I’d likely have used the $$ to buy more '83 Margaux and Palmer, rather than California Cabs.

I bought Champagne in anticipation of his birth and his sister’s: Probably a rehash but here goes….(child birth year purchase) - #26 by M.Kaplan

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