How long does the wine last? Does it get better with age?
The shelf life of our wines should be between 3-5 years, and that partly depends on how you store it. Though as most of our regulars will tell you, it never makes it that far! (It’s too easy and too much fun to enjoy!) Our wines are delicious when you bottle them, but yes, they certainly do improve with a little ageing. The process of ageing and maturity in a wine is often shrouded in a vague mystique, but there is substance to it. Time allows a wine to achieve something elusive but generally eventual – balance. After just going through the shock of fermentation, the essence of the wine is a bit of a cacophony. What follows is a process of unfolding, much like the slow budding of a flower blossom. The acidity tones down to a point, the firm fruit-forwardness calms slightly and deepens out, other more subtle characteristics are able to be tasted and expressed, and the body and weight of the wine fills out to its full potential. Most wines are just meant to be drunk. Those few others tha
