2006 vintage for 20 year+ aging

[Innkeeper]

Hi Mjaykay, and welcome to the Wine Board. To start with you have some time to think about it. You won't see any '06s for a couple or three years. Since you posted here, you must be thinking about California Cabs rather than something else. Our resident expert on that subject is out for a week, but you do have plenty of time since the wine you are looking for hasn't even budded out yet. In the meantime, let me suggest some alternatives. The most solid, dependable wine for real long time aging is Vintage Porto. Others, all less dependable, include Bordeaux (most containing Cabernet Sauvignon), Upper Rhone wines such as Cote Rotie and Hermitage, and Barolos and Brunellos from Piedmont and Tuscany respectively. You will have to wait a while for '06s of all of these.

I'm very glad to see that you were planning to drink the wine and not necessarily your son. The reason for this is even he likes wine (all four of my kids don't), most young people are not into aged out Cabernet or anything else aged out. It is an acquired taste.

[This message has been edited by Innkeeper (edited 01-30-2006).]