Birth year wine

[Brian_G_r_a_f_s_t_r_o_m]

I have “gone about this” by conducting business as normal, for the most part. I look at it this way: hardly a vintage goes by when I don’t buy wine that can take significant age. I don’t feel I need to make a point of buying birth year wines for my kids, as I believe it will happen naturally. Now, as the years roll by, I will be tighter-fisted with those bottles (2013 and 2015), but not to the point of never drinking them. I agree these purchases frequently end up being more for the parents than the kids (for various reasons). I’m also not willing to buy a wine solely for the sake of having a birth year wine — it has to be a good wine at a price that isn’t absurd. For example, my year is generally terrible, so I don’t bother chasing bottles from that vintage. Sadly, the same holds true for my son’s 2013 birth year.

I used my daughter as an excuse to overload on her birth year, 2016, which coincidentally is a sick year for red burg/northern rhone. I’m at 311 bottles and with quite a few releases still to come.

Cause I’m totally expecting her to love burgundy and N. Rhone.

If my girl had been born two days later I could do the same with 2016; I’d be going ape on the Bdx…

… it feels like N. Rhone has passed me by, but every time I take a closer look I realize that’s really not the case; same with Burgundy, although I think there’s more truth to the notion there. For now, I’m focusing a lot on the Loire before all those prices go wacky, too.

[MChang]

I think there’s value in very good burgundy vintages like 12 and 14 and perfectly good vintages like 13. Yes 15-16 jacked the prices, and I think 17 is overpriced but, there’s still deals imo.

[Ron_Slye]

I second that this is definitely more for the parents than for the children. With that said, it is always nice to have an excuse to buy more wine haha. Just don’t be too disappointed if your kids dont show much appreciation in 21 years.

My father-in-law bought a bunch of birth year wines from 1990 for my wife. He bought mostly Bordeaux from all the top estates. Ironic thing is that my wife feels indifferent towards Bordeaux and will almost always prefer Burgundy instead.

Good marriage decision on your part!

[Danius_Barzdukas]

I didn’t buy a lot for my children (2001,2003,2006). Maybe I put together a case each for them. But what I have for them (e.g Truchot, Douhin Musigny,Dujac, Conterno,Vatan,) has in some cases increased so much in price that I suppose they could just sell it and get a nice bit of money they could use for something else. Of course I will probably make them receiving it conditional on them drinking it with me. But one approach you could take could be to buy something that they could drink or sell if they have no interest in it. So buy something you expect to increase in value or at least retain it. And buy some extra of something that you could keep to share with them. That is kind of what I am doing I guess, since I am saving some wines from their birth years I plan to drink with them.

[Andreas_Nielsen]

I’m planning to buy vintage port for my son (also born in 2017) when released.

Bought some Dönnhoff Hermannshöhle magnums for him and will add magnums of Barolo and Cote-Rotie in time.

[Robert_M_yers]

For those born in off years would it be acceptable to claim conception year