I thought of some more… the night we got engaged, we had 2001 d’Arenberg Dead Arm, so we bought 3 more bottles of that vintage, and are buying 3 bottles of each new vintage. We have a 2000-2004 vertical at this point. We have a bottle each year on the anniversary of our engagement, in April. My wife’s birthday, my birthday, our wedding anniversary, and the anniversary of our first date are all clustered in the fall, so it’s nice to have a celebration in the spring.

We also have one more bottle of 1996 Dom Perignon, which we had on our wedding night.

It seems like almost all of the “good” wine in the cellar is associated with these relationship events, but that’s fine. It keeps the wife from complaining about the expense!

And mph, will you be making your anniversary celebrations open to the public? Mmmm

A bottle of 1975 Ridge Geyserville.

A bottle of 1976 Burgess cab (my birth year). It was cheap.

We got married in 2005, so we’re buying quite heavily from that year. Age-worthy purchases so far include Ridge Monte Bello, Ridge Lytton Springs, Vieux-Telegraphe, Leoville-Barton, Kirwan, Bienfaisance, Rieussec, Doisy-Daene, and La Tour Blanche. I want to make sure we have something good for each anniversary out to at least 25 years. We had the mixed blessing of a very good vintage all over the world.