Bottle Closures

Our choice is the screwcap, allowing the wine to develop fruit complexity at a gradual pace. Since 2000 we have chosen to use screwcaps to avoid what was a significant problem of “corked wines”.

This character arises from the mould sometimes generated in maturing the cork bark and can range from barely perceptible to blatantly obvious and off-putting. If the smell is not very noticeable, but the wine has been mildly affected, then a customer may just think the wine is generally not to their liking and not buy it again. Not good news for a winemaker!

At the severe end, the mouldy smell is easily picked and the customer would probably be aware that the problem lay with the cork and would be more likely to ask for a replacement of the wine.