Were 1985 and 1987 good years ?

[Innkeeper]

Hi Barry, and welcome to the Wine Board. You can "google" wine vintages, and find several excellent vintage charts. Not sure if you mean the wines have already been bought, or need to be bought. Both are problematical. If they are already in a cellar, the conditions need to be perfect for a minute number of wines to survive. All others are over the hill. If the wines need to be bought, it will be nearly impossible, except at huge expense at auction, and I wouldn't bid if I had a million in my pocket.

This whole subject is frought with danger. As already alluded to, it is very difficult to select and properly keep wines for twenty years. If you are successful in all that, the next hurdle is having kids that like wine. Many people have run afoul of this glitch. What are you going to do; say, "Here's to you kid?" I think it's a much better idea to invest in a child's education, than in wine to toast their maturity or success. You can also educate them to love wine.