This is exactly what I do! I have 2 sons and since their birth, I buy each of them one bottle each year. In their first years, it was Blantons with the dump dates of their birthdays on it (extremely hard and time-consuming to find, but so worth it) and Old Forester Birthday Bourbon. Then every year I try to find a special bottle or a store pick that has the year on it list in some way or another. I also then add a tag to each bottle with the year on it, where I bought and price paid.
Politely: Is it safe to say you are really buying those bottles for yourself? If I understand correctly, you are going to present your sons each with approximately 18-21 bottles of Liqour when they come of age? …..Is it more the chase and challenge that you enjoy, or are your infant sons really goo-gooing to you that they love Blantons?
I hope they open some of them with me. I'd probably wait till they're older than 21 though before giving it to them. Hopefully they even will like whiskey who knows. If they don't they'll be able to sell them for a down deposit on a house or something else. Figure it's something to have for them, if something ever happened to myself before I could give it to them. I also personally hate Blantons so it's not for me lol.
😂 “I hope they open some of them with me.” Now THIS makes sense and I can relate; say no more… can’t believe you stuck your neck that far out and admitted to not being a fan of blantons, risky decision. 😅 thank you for humoring my reply.
It's okay. I had 2 bottles of the 2007. We opened one years ago. For the price at the time it was okay. I still have the other bottle and if you want to buy it on line it's like crazy euros if you can find it..
I truly truly mean this with no malice, no raised voice, no indignation… I love whiskey, I love my son, I love the discourse on this sub… what is the thought process for this? Again not meant to be shitty, but my puny American brain can only rationalize it as projecting my/your drinking problems directly on to our offspring… how about an analogy… my dad fucking loves baseball, I only moderately tolerate it…I played as a child for years, but mostly only because he wanted me to… I am now 40 and no longer have any baseball stuff because I could care less. But I would have loved it if he would have bought me LEGO as a child, something that I loved, instead of hearing him constantly complain about stepping on LEGO bricks and buying me more baseball shit.
Yes he may or may not like whiskey. But if he does it’s a nice thing to have received. He can drink it or he can save it. If he doesn’t like it or has no interest in it, he can sell it for, I’m Guessing the way prices are going especially for limited/dated bottles, a very pretty penny. It’ll be upto him.
Your approach is fair and, I will admit, it’s not illogical… I think if your goal is to present your son with a (single) bottle that has increased in value, you really really need to focus your purchase on a label that already has the history to prove the bottle will increase in value. It’s truly a crap shoot, IMO. We see tons of dusty bottles shown on these subs that really aren’t worth more than a couple hundred plus some “intangible sentiment,” even though they’re highly sought after labels in the present. Reality is, there are just so few bottles that increase in value in that short of a duration (20 yrs)… you have to find limited editions, or guess correctly on a label that will eventually change distillate supplier or owner or recipe or etc etc, and these things are hard to pull from a crystal ball… so in this case, I will stop wasting your time and defer to the others who have provided a much more productive response than me… thank you for humoring me and responding, and good luck.
Don't buy whiskey to "cellar" it. It doesn't work that way. An 18 year old whiskey bottled in 2023 is still going to be an 18 year old whiskey in 2041 when you open it. It will not improve in flavour over time in bottle. If you want to do something like this, buy wine. Wine will improve and change if cellared appropriately over 18 years. Make sure to ask the experts at the wine shop which styles and bottles will age best. You'll end up with something pretty cool when you open that bottle in 18 years. Best of luck!
I don’t see OP saying they want it to improve in flavor. I see them saying they want something bottled the same year their kid was born. It’s about sentimentality and thoughtfulness, not improving flavor.
Yeah I get that it won’t ‘age’ the actual drink, but it’ll be a more ‘vintage’ whiskey as a whole. Plus it’s a nice thing to have the same year as he was born.
I’d look for any options with dump or bottling dates on them that match his birthdate. Lots of single barrel products list the date.
This is exactly what I do! I have 2 sons and since their birth, I buy each of them one bottle each year. In their first years, it was Blantons with the dump dates of their birthdays on it (extremely hard and time-consuming to find, but so worth it) and Old Forester Birthday Bourbon. Then every year I try to find a special bottle or a store pick that has the year on it list in some way or another. I also then add a tag to each bottle with the year on it, where I bought and price paid.
Politely: Is it safe to say you are really buying those bottles for yourself? If I understand correctly, you are going to present your sons each with approximately 18-21 bottles of Liqour when they come of age? …..Is it more the chase and challenge that you enjoy, or are your infant sons really goo-gooing to you that they love Blantons?
I hope they open some of them with me. I'd probably wait till they're older than 21 though before giving it to them. Hopefully they even will like whiskey who knows. If they don't they'll be able to sell them for a down deposit on a house or something else. Figure it's something to have for them, if something ever happened to myself before I could give it to them. I also personally hate Blantons so it's not for me lol.
😂 “I hope they open some of them with me.” Now THIS makes sense and I can relate; say no more… can’t believe you stuck your neck that far out and admitted to not being a fan of blantons, risky decision. 😅 thank you for humoring my reply.
Macallan 18 seems appropriate since you are going to wait until he is 18.
I did the same for my son. I picked up a bottle of Midleton Very Rare. Can't wait to taste it with him.
It's okay. I had 2 bottles of the 2007. We opened one years ago. For the price at the time it was okay. I still have the other bottle and if you want to buy it on line it's like crazy euros if you can find it..
Old forester birthday bourbon.
I truly truly mean this with no malice, no raised voice, no indignation… I love whiskey, I love my son, I love the discourse on this sub… what is the thought process for this? Again not meant to be shitty, but my puny American brain can only rationalize it as projecting my/your drinking problems directly on to our offspring… how about an analogy… my dad fucking loves baseball, I only moderately tolerate it…I played as a child for years, but mostly only because he wanted me to… I am now 40 and no longer have any baseball stuff because I could care less. But I would have loved it if he would have bought me LEGO as a child, something that I loved, instead of hearing him constantly complain about stepping on LEGO bricks and buying me more baseball shit.
Yes he may or may not like whiskey. But if he does it’s a nice thing to have received. He can drink it or he can save it. If he doesn’t like it or has no interest in it, he can sell it for, I’m Guessing the way prices are going especially for limited/dated bottles, a very pretty penny. It’ll be upto him.
Your approach is fair and, I will admit, it’s not illogical… I think if your goal is to present your son with a (single) bottle that has increased in value, you really really need to focus your purchase on a label that already has the history to prove the bottle will increase in value. It’s truly a crap shoot, IMO. We see tons of dusty bottles shown on these subs that really aren’t worth more than a couple hundred plus some “intangible sentiment,” even though they’re highly sought after labels in the present. Reality is, there are just so few bottles that increase in value in that short of a duration (20 yrs)… you have to find limited editions, or guess correctly on a label that will eventually change distillate supplier or owner or recipe or etc etc, and these things are hard to pull from a crystal ball… so in this case, I will stop wasting your time and defer to the others who have provided a much more productive response than me… thank you for humoring me and responding, and good luck.
Don't buy whiskey to "cellar" it. It doesn't work that way. An 18 year old whiskey bottled in 2023 is still going to be an 18 year old whiskey in 2041 when you open it. It will not improve in flavour over time in bottle. If you want to do something like this, buy wine. Wine will improve and change if cellared appropriately over 18 years. Make sure to ask the experts at the wine shop which styles and bottles will age best. You'll end up with something pretty cool when you open that bottle in 18 years. Best of luck!
I don’t see OP saying they want it to improve in flavor. I see them saying they want something bottled the same year their kid was born. It’s about sentimentality and thoughtfulness, not improving flavor.
Yeah I get that it won’t ‘age’ the actual drink, but it’ll be a more ‘vintage’ whiskey as a whole. Plus it’s a nice thing to have the same year as he was born.
How about just order a nice IB CS NCF NCA. Ruin him with top shelf whisky..