One of the questions we are most frequently asked is 'For how long can I Cellar this wine?' The answer of course has many parts and is related to the available cellaring conditions, the wine style involved, the vagaries of the closure and one's individual preference for youthful freshness or the complexity brought about with time.

The ideal cellar should be constant temperature (ideally between 15°C and 18°C), slightly humid and with minimal or no continuous light. Some wine styles are designed to age gracefully and other to enjoy whilst young.

Corks, being a natural product vary enormously and even the most expensive hand-sorted ones come without guarantee. Although we do experience (5% in some cases) cork tainted wines, it is the bottle to bottle variation experienced by winemakers world wide that has lead to the growth in usage of the screw cap. At Capercaillie, we colour sort all our old white wines before re-release to minimize the likelihood of you receiving a prematurely developed example. As of 2005 all our white wines and most of our red wines will be sealed with a screw cap to ensure they always look their best. They will age and develop just as gracefully as their cork sealed predecessors.