Happy 2029
May 7, 2008Dear Bartender: My niece was born 5 months ago, and I got this idea from a book I read. This father had bought a bottle of wine when his daughter was born and they drank it 20 some odd years later. But I read that wine isn’t really meant to be kept for more than a few years. So I was wondering if you could recommend something that I could keep until her 21st birthday. I do not have an acquired taste for scotch so if there is anything else…
Thanks so much.
–Boomer
Dear Boomer: I’m a bartender, not a wine steward, but I’ll try to shed some light anyway.
Wine is packaged lots of ways — with screwcaps, corks, plastic corks, in bags inside boxes like breakfast cereal… That’s not your problem. Your problem, however it’s packaged, is how to store it for the next two decades while you wait for the kid to be of age.
You have two choices: Buy a bottle and drink it tonight or get yourself a good wine cellar. If the latter, you can store the damn stuff till you’re ready to celebrate when the kid turns ninety.
I hear Peeps have a shelf life of about 300 years…
bartendr i sent you almost exac question five month ago why did take you so long to responn i know im not smart but that dosnt meen i don have feeelins
Lavinia: that IS your question. It took me that long to translate it from stupid into English. Sheesh. Thanks for giving away that I edit these questions for clarity. Nice way to kill a buzz.
Lavinia… snow wat u meen…. mi qstions nvr get powsted
If you do want a wine that will last dozens of years, then get a sauterne or vintage cognac or amangnac. They will all be drinkable well past a 21st b-day.