Birthday Wine

[Innkeeper]

Hi Sparrow, and welcome to the Wine Board. You have the best of intentions, but before you jump into something, let's take a look at the landscape. First off, the grapes for vintage 2002 are just beginning to mature of the vine in the Northern Hemisphere, and just being crushed in the Southern Hemisphere. The wines that mature well over twenty one years won't be released (offered for sale) for four or five years. The wine will cost $80 or more per bottle. The wine must be stored in ideal conditions, preferably in a temperature/humidity controlled system. Storage can be rented or leased, but not inexpensively. There is no wine that can be guaranteed to be OK in twenty of years. Even in the best of wines, the chance of the cork lasting all those years without problems is low. Finally the young man has to like wine when he is twenty one. My kids are all in their thirties, and only one likes wine at all, and she only drinks white zin.

Why don't you just buy your cousin a bottle of Champagne to celebrate the birth of her son.