It was a fantastic vintage, and these wines have been giving enormous pleasure for years now. Some of them are going over the hill rather more quickly than expected, but that should teach us a lesson. As I said, there'll be another vintage coming along in a moment. Read my lips. Modern wine isn't a marathon race to see who can outlast whom.
Pleasure comes first.
Whenever you cellar wines long-term just for the sake of it, you take a risk. They're apt to change in unexpected ways. They might turn out better than you hoped, or less well. If it s the latter, all you can do is regret that you didn't drink them earlier, when they were enjoyable. However, there's still a puritan side to most of us that whispers that if a wine doesn't age for decades, it's not a great wine.