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advice needed on wine!!

  • 16-11-2007 12:07pm
    #1
    smilingeyerish
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    Hey!
    I saw a present idea on another board,buy a bottle of wine for a new born andit is to be opened on their 18th birthday. thought it was a great idea and i want to do this for a christneing im going to in a few weeks. i wonder if anyone could suggest a wine that would be good to drink after 18 years if i buy it now...would champagne be a better buy? i think 30 would be the very most i could afford right now though.

    any suggestions??


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  • #2
    The Hill Billy
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    Go to a good off-licence or wine retailers & ask for their recommendations as to what may age well for that period of time.


  • #3
    DadaKopf
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    Not sure about sparkling wines like Champagne and how they age. But Spanish wines are reknowned for their ageing process - but that stuff puts hair on your chest. Best to look for an expensive, well regarded Rioja - like Izadi, or Monticello - and look for 'Gran Reserva'. Technically these wines must be over 7 years old, but I'm not sure which last past that.

    As for the cream of the crop, you'd be looking at wines from Bordeaux or Bourgogne. Among the most prestigous regions in Bordeaux for the best of the best aged wines would be Saint Émilion and Pomerol. Pomerol wines usually only come into their own after 15 years and some can cost as much as $25,000 if its from the top chateaux. But you can get bottles that cost less. But Pomerol is a heavy, full-bodied wine. Good Burgundy wines (the most sexiful of all wines - ancient and velvety) need a good 10 years to mature, not sure how many go past to 18. But the top vineyards there would be the likes of Givery-Chambertin.

    Vintage is important, though. 2000 and 2005 were excellent years (hence the price). I don't know what 2007/2008 are like. And with crappy weather, good French wine will be harder to come by.


  • #4
    DadaKopf
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    If you're in Dublin, recommendations can be sought from Albrouze on Upper Leeson St., Mitchell's on Kildare St., Berry Brothers next to McDaid's pub.


  • #5
    breadmonkey
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    Champagne is made to be drunk the year it's released so don't get that.

    Go to a decent wine shop and ask. You'll have no problem getting something for the €50 mark.


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