![]() June 3rd, 2014
11:15 AM ET
Ray Isle (@islewine on Twitter) is Food & Wine's executive wine editor. We trust his every cork pop and decant – and the man can sniff out a bargain to boot. Take it away, Ray. An appealingly cynical English friend in the wine business once told me, “You see, what you do is that when your child is born, you purchase a case of vintage port from that year. Then, when the child finally graduates from college, you send them on their way, and you drink it.” Exactly. All this business about putting wine away until your kid is able to appreciate it is just bunk; the person who really deserves a good bottle post-graduation is the parent. After all, it costs somewhere on the order of $241,000 to raise a kid, and that isn’t even counting college—don’t you think you deserve a bottle of something nice after all that? Here are some splurge-worthy suggestions from some of the world’s great wine regions. They’re a little pricey, but on the bright side, you could buy more than 5,000 bottles of any one of them for what you just paid to raise your newly minted graduate. NV Gosset Brut Excellence Champagne ($45) 2010 Smith-Madrone Napa Valley Cabernet Sauvignon ($45) 2011 Chateau Montelena Napa Valley Chardonnay ($50) Taylor Fladgate 20 Year Old Tawny Port ($55) More from Food & Wine: Previously: © 2011 American Express Publishing Corporation. All rights reserved. |
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