What is the first wine you will give your son/daughter?

[C_Keller]

I hope to give them a taste of 2018 white burgundy but we’ll see how that goes

[Marcus_Goodfellow]

My stepson is 11. We’ve been allowing him to taste our wine whenever he wants to for more than a year now. So far, he prefers white to red, and champagne to everything. We don’t drink much that’s sweet, but he doesn’t so far seem to have a decided preference for RS. As soon as he starts asking for his own glass, we’ll let him have a small one. I hope by the time he’s in his late teens he’ll have developed enough of a palate to start asking for what he likes. I do hope he likes Barolo, though, because we have a 12L from his birth year.

Kudos to your stepson!

While I never had a preference for RS, I envy his quick appreciation for Champagne.

[Marcus_Goodfellow]

[J.Vizuete]

Just outstanding stuff there Marcus.

[Robert_Sand]

Legal drinking age (for wine) is 16y in Germany, for spirits 18y.
My kids are used to wine from young age, they were allowed to take a sip with meals whenever they liked, but usually they preferred juice and water.
That changed around age of 11-12 - first Riesling and Spätburgunder (or Burgundy) - and now as adults they know practically everything and appreciate it (when it´s good).

[Milton_Hudson]

This is what we had… Bought on release for this occasion

[Brian_S_t_o_t_t_e_r]

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Next generation

[Anton_D]

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Dipping the binky in the must?

[Marcus_Goodfellow]

Just outstanding stuff there Marcus.

Definitely one of the best moments of my life!

[RyanC]

My daughter (born 2013) sometimes sticks a finger in my wine and responds with “yum”. I recently bought 2013 Monfortino as a birthyear wine and she has already told me – several times – that she is excited to open it on her 21st birthday. Who am I to argue?

[Billy_Hall]

I was intrigued and excited to read the responses in this thread. My goal is and has been to leave a nice collection of wines from her birth year (2010). CT says I have approximately 600 bottles so far from 2010 broken down as follows. I’ve been able to get some larger formats including Riesling auctions. We’ll let her sip whatever she wants. Seems the older she gets the less she’s wanting to sip them…does like the Donnhoff Kabinetts we’ve been drinking lately. I do look forward to opening these wines with her, and,hopefully, she’ll appreciate what she has. Will be nice to know she has a bunch of good wines from the year she was born especially if she’s still drinking them at 50 plus!

(73.6% France) (9.9% Germany) (7.9% Italy) (5.1% USA) (3.5% Spain)

• 51.7 Bordeaux - 7.1% Mosel - 7.4% Tuscany - 4.5% Cali - 2.5% Castilla y Leon
• 8.3% Rhone - 2.8% Nahe - .5% Campania - .6% Washington - 1% Catalunya
• 7.8% Burgundy
• 4.1% Alsace
• 1.8% Champagne

[Jan_Janas]

It has been so much fun reading through your stories! It seems like the Berserkerer way of doing things can be summed as:

• Crack D’Yquem and Champagne at the hospital to celebrate the newborn baby
• Let baby dip his thumb in it and baptise him with Champagne at year 0
• Let the children sip and enjoy wine from the early age of 3
• Build a collection the size of a boutique wine store from their birthday year to let their friends know who is boss
• Get a Cristal, high-end Barolo, first growth Bordeaux or Grand Cru Burgundy for the special day of adult life celebration

I have learnt more about living and breathing wine from these few posts than reading thousand tastings notes and vintage reviews, keep it real never change 'Serkers!

[Brian_S_t_o_t_t_e_r]

Might have to start making babies just to join in on the fun.

[Dav3_Dyr0ff]

Might have to start making babies just to join in on the fun.

I think you have those two things out of order.

[Jan_Janas]

Might have to start making babies just to join in on the fun.

I think you have those two things out of order.

[Dav3_Dyr0ff]

My kids are 3 and 5. I’ve been buying wine for them (a bunch of birth year wines spanning regions and quality but mostly Burgundy and Bordeaux). My objective is to buy them each approx 1 case of wine per year. I plan to gift them their collection of 25 or so cases when they each turn 21. I am trying to curate purposefully so they will have a chance to experience wine that would be hard to source otherwise. I’m hoping this cache of wine will be enjoyed for years to come, providing us with many opportunities to taste and share stories.

I am pretty confident they will like wine - they are fond to take a finger dip to taste here and there. They are both big fans of red Burgs.

I have also done this, though in far smaller quantity, and a bit later. They have each received, or will receive, 5 cases on their 25th birthday. These are a mix of a couple of birth year wines, and then other bottles spread over that time frame so they get a little “starter cellar” with some newly released bottles, some 5 years old, some 10 years old, etc.

The first two have theirs, and loved the gift. The next one doesn’t like wine, so I suspect we’ll keep hers and drink them “with” her here over time, and the last one is TBD whether she likes it.

As he does with so many things in life, I think Homer Simpson eloquently sums up the beauty of giving a gift like this to someone who may, or may not, like wine when the time comes:

Homer's "gift" to Marge - a bowling ball

[Brian_S_t_o_t_t_e_r]

Might have to start making babies just to join in on the fun.

I think you have those two things out of order.

[Alex_Valdes]

My kids are 3 and 5. I’ve been buying wine for them (a bunch of birth year wines spanning regions and quality but mostly Burgundy and Bordeaux). My objective is to buy them each approx 1 case of wine per year. I plan to gift them their collection of 25 or so cases when they each turn 21. I am trying to curate purposefully so they will have a chance to experience wine that would be hard to source otherwise. I’m hoping this cache of wine will be enjoyed for years to come, providing us with many opportunities to taste and share stories.

I am pretty confident they will like wine - they are fond to take a finger dip to taste here and there. They are both big fans of red Burgs.

I have also done this, though in far smaller quantity, and a bit later. They have each received, or will receive, 5 cases on their 25th birthday. These are a mix of a couple of birth year wines, and then other bottles spread over that time frame so they get a little “starter cellar” with some newly released bottles, some 5 years old, some 10 years old, etc.

The first two have theirs, and loved the gift. The next one doesn’t like wine, so I suspect we’ll keep hers and drink them “with” her here over time, and the last one is TBD whether she likes it.

As he does with so many things in life, I think Homer Simpson eloquently sums up the beauty of giving a gift like this to someone who may, or may not, like wine when the time comes:

Homer's "gift" to Marge - a bowling ball - YouTube

Agree. If they don’t like it, I know someone who will…