The 10th year calls for top-rank classics: wines from the premium châteaux of Bordeaux; Cabernet blends from Australia; Meritage wines from California; Barbaresco, Barolo, Brunello or Chianti Riserva from Italy; or the Rieslings of Germany's Mosel River Valley. Prices range from $25 to $1,000.
The 25th anniversary is an opportunity to open a Canadian Riesling icewine at its peak of development. Burnished amber gold in colour, it will display a richness and complexity to parallel the couple's deepening relationship. For guaranteed longevity, only buy Riesling. A 375 mL bottle costs $40 to $70.
Few wines have the mettle to last for 50 years, but fortified wines do, and the fi nest of them is vintage port. It's only produced in great years, bottled two years after harvest. The best vintage ports, like Fonseca, Graham's, Niepoort, Taylor Fladgate and Warre's, will last more than a century. Prices start at $50. Give any of these bottles 20 years before drinking.
(*Prices are for 750 mL bottles, except where listed.)
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