Ep 136: Birth year, Anniversary, Commemoration Wines

Wine for Normal People

Alcohol, Lifestyle, Arts, Education, Food, Wine, Dining, Grapes

4.6 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 24 July 2015

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

Saving a wine to enjoy when your kid turns 21 or on your 10th or 20th wedding anniversary is a great idea, but what will last that long? This week we've got a great list of options for you with advice on how to research your best options and storage tips to boot!

Here's the list:

1. Vintage Champagne

2. Alsatian Riesling from producers like Zind Humbrecht, Marcel Deiss, or Trimbach. Or German Riesling from producers like Donnhoff or JJ Prüm.

3. The Italians: Barbaresco and Barolo, Brunello di Montalcino, or Taurasi from Agliancio

4. White and red Burgundy

5. California Cabernets from specific producers: Ridge, Heitz, Chateau Montelena, Freemark Abbey.

6. Heavier Northern Rhônes of Syrah like Cornas or Hermitage or Châteauneuf-du-Pape from the specific producers in Southern Rhône.

7. Bordeaux from the best producer you can afford

8. High end Rioja

Sweet Wines (my top picks for long aging)

1. Sauternes

2. Vintage Port

3. Tokaji from Hungary

4. Madeira

Whatever the occasion you're commemorationg there's a wine for you! Congratulations!

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0:00.0	MC Ice, guess what?
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0:19.0	player go get a buck let's get to the show. Thanks for listening to wine for normal people.
0:27.0	The podcast for people who want to learn about wine
0:31.0	but can do without the attitude that seems to go with it.
0:34.0	I'm Elizabeth Schneider, a certified Silmaier and certified specialist of wine.
0:40.0	And I'm MC Ice, just a wine-loving normal person.
0:43.0	I've been meaning to do this podcast for a while
0:46.9	because it's a question that I get a lot,
0:50.2	and it's something that I have had on my mind also as we have had two children in the last four years.
0:57.0	So this has been weighing on you for four years and you've done nothing about it.
1:01.0	That's not true. I have done something about it. We have some wine for the 2011 birth.
1:06.7	Podcast wise I'm saying. No that's true. The podcast has been live for more than four years. A little bit more. But here's the thing is that,
1:19.6	well, okay, first of all, you have to wait after the kid is born because any wine that you're
1:26.1	going to hold for 21 or more years...
1:29.5	You're probably going to end up drinking it in the first six months anyway because they never sleep and you never
1:36.8	no no no no the thing about it is that the wines that are going to age generally speak it's not all of them are going to come
1:48.2	Out or be released years after the child is born So if you're looking at 2011, 2014, even in some cases
1:57.8	2015 you're going to be seeing 2011's. You can access 2011's now, most likely, although that window is shutting.
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