Question about a french red wine

[Innkeeper]

Hi JB, and welcome to the Wine Board. I don't agree with your brother-in-law. There are three good reasons for drinking it now. First, and will probably take heat for this, but I would not trust any Bordeaux from the git go to last sixteen to twenty one years. Sure many do, but it's the luck of the draw. Second, and many people have found this out, your son may not like wine. Thirdly, although you have an excellent wine, won't fault b-i-l on that, it is either at its peak, or on its downslope.

If I was going to try to hold a wine for a child's twenty first birthday, which I wouldn't do if I could it all over again, it would be either an Italian Brunello or Barolo, or a big California Petite Sirah such as Stag's Leap.