December 26th, 2008
Choose a Wine to keep very long
Posted by Premium Blogger in Longetivity of Wine, Wine Tagged gift wine, how long wine is, keeping wine for years, lonetivity of wine, Vintage Wine, Wine, wine gift
The storage conditions and periods of custody are explained on other pages.
Wines to commemorate a birth
Question: “I just had a baby girl, I offer him wine (red or white, burgundy or Bordeaux) of his birth year. Drink it this year to 20 or 30 years”.
Answer:
Most wines do not have such longevity. This is true for much of Burgundy and Bordeaux.
Some of the burgundy red or sauternes most expensive can take decades. Some major port or Banyuls (Domaine du Mas Blanc), too. I see three flaws in this option:
- These wines (red or transferred) does not like all those 20 or 30 years;
- Only certain vintages are candidates;
- At least 40 euros.
A wine can improve for several decades if it has a balance (natural) more strict. One condition is that the grapes were harvested north of Dijon. I recommend you try the following productions:
- The best parcels of Chinon in 1989, 1996 or 2002. From 20 euros.
- The best producers quarters-of-stubble in most years. From 30 euros.
- The best parcels of Touraine most years, vinified in semi-dry or sweet. From 10 euros the year of bottling. Here’s who I delivered: Francois Pinon and Domaine Huet.
That is what a gift that lasts long.
Verify that you can keep your wine. For wine to drink soon, read my advice on allocations to purchase wine or my selection of French wines and how to recognize a bottle stub.
