Do you buy wine to lay down?

WINE TALK
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I’d be happy to. Need my address?

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At 49 years of age, my purchases have been more along the 11-20 range, but candidly, drinking a lot of these wines much earlier. Saving some, but enjoying the journey of evolution of those wines I selected for the long-haul. In terms of wines that require minimum 15 years, like classified Bordeaux, the 2010 vintage is my last and even then I was limited in my purchases. By the time I receive them from PC, they should be ready to drink.

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He said some “kind” person, and I’m so kind I even fetched some cereal down from a shelf that a little old lady couldn’t reach in a supermarket a few weeks ago. She didn’t speak English either, but my empathetic nature allowed me to comprehend the problem and I left her with a big smile on her face.

So nice try but I guess you’re out Alan. It’s all about karma.

I’ll be forwarding my address shortly.
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No I buy Valium to lay down.

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Given my age now, I’m no longer buying wines to lay down for 20+ years, and I now backfill for older wines. FWIW, I still have many wines purchased 30-40 years ago in my cellar and it’s always a treat to bring out a bottle to share… I prefer older wines with tertiary notes, etc…whereas other might prefer more primary. That’s what makes collecting wine so much fun.

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At the rate I’m buying age worthy wines, I’m buying them for future generations whether I intend to or not.

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Oops beat me to it

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I’m 57 and recently cleared out most of my 12 case “cellar” to reasses. My new idea is to buy for now but if I find something intriguing, to get a case, and save 3 bottles for latter. I gifted away the 3 cases, of vintage port that was clogging up my storage after I realized that port is always around, and I needed the space for other things. I live near the Santa Cruz mountains and a well regarded winery, Alhgrens, has been selling off its cellar of aged Cabs, Cab Franc, Syrah and Semillon, which satisfies my need for older vintages. There is so much good wine all around, I don’t feel the need to collect.

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I’m 29. I don’t have the storage or $$ ability to buy wines to hold for 10+ years at this point in my life. It works out well, though, since I’m not really interested in those wines rignt now.

That being said, I have a '12 daughter and a '14 daughter. Both will have wine for them for 21st bdays, graduations, weddings, etc.

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I see this topic like Greg. I’m 49, take good care of myself and want to live a long time. However, I want to enjoy the wines now, the experiences now, not create museum pieces that I can only revere, not enjoy. Perhaps strongly worded, but in simple fashion, I see it this way. I take some good natured s##t from a few of my OC wine pals that for me an old wine to me is 5 years from vintage, but in truth, I can’t argue it.

I enjoy, fruit, acid, wines that are zesty and expressive, and I don’t care much for secondary flavors and aged notes in wines. I enjoy the subtlety that comes with aged wines, but if I am to choose, give me youthful wines any day.

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Most of my wine purchases are for my daughter’s birth year, 2010. In fact, my cellar is now 34% 2010…and growing. I hope she likes wine. If not, I will enjoy drinking them.

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I buy wine to lay down. Some for a short period. Others for a medium or long period.

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11-20 years is right for me so far.
I find I have to Cellar dump every now and again to keep my wife sane.

For my taste I really don’t like to relax with a young wine, I never have, I just don’t care for the baby fat of them. Now, I like to taste young wines to get a sense as to what they are like, I think they’re interesting young, but just not all that enjoyable to me.
I like my wines to be cellared at least 8-10 years, while I will buy some wines that are meant to be drunk young, I cellar most.

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The answer for me is, “all of the above.”
I will age many wines (Burgs especially) for 20+ but buy many wines to drink younger.

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I always thought you were older than me! :wink:

You know what you like, that’s all that matters! I prefer more mature wines, find them more intriguing, but you know I drink a lot of youngsters too. Lots of enjoyment from young wines with verve!

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Cellaring is a surprisingly important part of the process to me. I like aged wines and enjoy investing the time (and money) to get nicely aged wines. I will buy mature wines when the opportunity presents itself (retail or auctions typically), but I’ve been cellaring for well over a decade now and enjoy the whole process.

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Always did, but at age 63 I now seldom buy wine that cannot be appreciated within a 5-6 years timeframe.

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I don’t buy any wine unless I think I will be able to enjoy it in 20 years or less. I expect many of the wines will actually survive much longer than that (Sauternes and Port, particularly), and I expect when I reach my own personal finish line, many of my wines will still be in the race. But I don’t buy them to outlive me, I buy them so I can enjoy them. I’ll leave it for my successors to decide what to do with those wines that remain. Currently, they are too young to know what they will like. Therefore, my answer is 11-20 years.

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But you lay down for how many years?

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I have answered : “I buy wine for over 20 years and to lay down for future generations” and I know that some wines which come in my cellar will never be drunk during my life.
My children will decide.

I would find completely frustrating to stop buying, just because there are bottles in my cellar which I will never drink. I behave as if I would live for ever. You stay younger when you never act according to your life expectancy (this is my philosophy).

Concerning old wines, when I open them, I give them the opportunity to reach the destination for which they were done : “to be drunk”. And many times, I give life to wines which were forgotten in cellars and which are put on the market when there is an heritage. The owner died without touching these bottles, the children think that these wines are past their period of interest, and (as some other collectors), I give life to these wines.

So, in a way, I buy young wines for my chidren and I give life to old wines forgotten in cellars and which need to be drunk. It is certainly a “self-justification”, but why not ?