Do your children share your wine passion. Do you/did you buy birth year wines for your children?

WINE TALK
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Ok, question for those who have adult kids, Do your children share your wine passion? Or, if you don’t have any kids, do your nieces and nephews share your wine passion? Did you bought birth year wines for your kids and do you share them with your adult kids. Do you buy wines which won’t mature in your lifetime but will be perfect for your kids so you buy them for them?

For those who have young kids, did you buy birth year wines for them?

Me I bought plenty of birth year wines for my kids and plenty of Jadot 2005 red burgs in large formats, which was no birth year of any of my kids, but are wines which will drink well when I’m in retirement home and they’re in their 40’s-50’s

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My son, now 21 is an avid wine-lover who has a decent palate. (I started when I was 21). He loves Cabernet and Cali-Syrah. Maybe he can ‘mature’ to the good stuff… newhere

I never put much credence into ‘special year’ bottles, so I have none for him. My kids had always (daughter 17, not into drinking wine) been interested to know that the wine in my glass was older than they were, something that never happens anymore because that would be old wine for me.

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My two sons, 24 and 17, are basically not interested, though they will accomodate us and take some if we tell they why we are giving it to them to taste. Pretty disappointing, though I have some hope for the younger one.

Re: birth years: I’d like to have, but 1987 was terrible almost everywhere I knew of. And, 1993, was less terrible, though not great, except in reds from the Cote de Nuits…and I have a stash, though not bought for that purpose I guess like wines, kids depend on their vintages, too.

If things go as likely, they’ll have plenty of good/great wines to deal with at some point. What they do with them…is up to them. At this point, I’d bet they’d sell them. But, those unknown spouses (they will hopefully have) might have other ideas…

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Yes to all. And buying their birth year wines is still a focus. And as an interesting aside, it was my father that planted the seed with me. My kids are only 14, but we still taste wine together, in very small quantities. Turns out they have amazing palates. I grew up in Italy so this whole any alcohol is taboo before 21 things doesn’t resonate with me. As I have triplet boys, I put away a mixed case of 1st growths for each, a mixed case of others (DRC, la las, grange, unico, d’yquem, gaja, montebello, etc) for each a case of 96 Pol Roger SWC, DP and 96 Krug to be divided and a 3l of each Diamond Creek vineyard for each of them and a case of 96 Nacional, the only vintage port of the year I think. When they turn 21 they can decide what they want to do with it. I also have a big stock of 96s for birthday drinking, and large format champagne for big occasions like graduations, wedding, etc.

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I keep buying birth year wines for our cats. They seem not to care, and would prefer a can of tuna fish. Leaves more for me.

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My godchildren were born in 1989 and I have some Climens (the girl especially loves Climens - at age 15 she tasted the 01 and announced that it was the best wine she’d had, would I give her a case when she graduates from college?), some red Bordeaux (Montrose, LLC, Pichon Lalande), and some Huet (Cuvee Constance, Le Mont and Le Haut Lieu Moelleux Premier Trie) for them. (I also own some Trimbach CSH VT but that might not make it to them.) Only the girl is interested at present but who knows about later?

I drank a birthyear wine with one of my nephews recently (1984 Montelena Cab) - he was interested but prefers my German wines at present. My other nephew’s birthyear is 1981 - not a great year for birth wines to go the distance although I do have some Penfolds Grange for him. He loves wine and in fact seems to be abandoning his legal career for cooking!

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I bought lots of birthyear wines for both of our sons, born in '03 & '05. I bought mostly red Burgs & Loire Chenin Blanc, but bought a few Bordeaux as well. They are both offered tastes of wine periodically. The 8 year old has no interest. The 6 year old would drink wine w/ dinner every night if given the chance. He seems to have a particular fondness for Champagne.

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I bought some for my kids. Will I give it to them? Who knows. The Champagne will be for wedding or something like that. The wines are more to hopefully share with them. If I pass before I get a chance, then they go to the kids.

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Mine are still too young to know (2 & 9 months). Although the 2 year old did steal a sip of my wife’s Rosenblum Zin last night. Birthyears are 08 & 10. Don’t really have anything from 08 that will go the distance at this point, but will definitely be stocking up on some bottles further down the line. Since 2010 Bordeaux is THE vintage of the century [whistle.gif] I may have to get some for the boy.

What are some 08 suggestions that have the stuffing to last?

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I bought birth year wines for both kids - 1990 (and what a great year to be buying birthyear wines!) and '98.

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No.

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My kids were born in 1989 (a great year for Barolo) and 1991 (a great year for Cali Cab), so I stocked up heavily. The fact that I would not meet them for another decade (they are my stepsons) did nothing to diminish the fervor with which I purchased these wines.

The older one has a taste for good spatlese and fruit-dominated reds, so think there’s a future for him in wine. The younger one, time will tell.

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What '03 Burgs did you purchase? '03 was such a panned year, with all the heat, yet I’m sure there were some vineyard row arrangements that could have worked well enough.

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I bought 05 and 05…
Ben gets a 3L of Pape Clement and Maya gets a 3L of Troplong Mondot. flirtysmile
All the other 05’s we drink on their birthdays. They will get the remaining…if there is any remaining…

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Dr Waldmann’s 8 year old gets stewed wine. [swearing.gif]

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I bought my son some 2007’s: CDP, CA cab, piedmonte, port

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My daughter (27) has had a strong interest in Champagne since she was 5 - although she only got tastes, she always wanted more. Now she works with me, but in the last few years she has worked for Argyle, R. Stuart (Rob’s Rose d’Or is the best American sparkler I’ve had), Brick House, Buena Vista, and a NZ winery. She’s a serious wine geek, and I worry that she would drop me in a second if she got a wine-making gig. My son (30) loves wine too, but not to the point where he wants to make a career in it.

We didn’t buy birth year wines because when the kids were born, we were too poor, with no decent storage for such a thing.

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my son was born in 2008, thus I purchased Ridge MonteBello 2008 and Ch Gazin from Pommerol. Not sure about much else though, he is only 2.5yrs

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Despite all the controversy, I decided to take the optimistic approach & bought a fair amount, including d’Angerville, Bachelet, Drouhin Musigny, Comte Armand Clos des Epeneaux, Clos des Lambrays, & 1 bottle each of Mugnier Musigny & La Tâche. We’ll see…