Sealing a bottle under a screw cap ensures that the wine in the bottle will age under the best possible conditions and ensures that no air or oxygen can enter the bottle. The fresh citrus flavors remain, and are overlaid with flavors of toast, lemon grass and eventually some honey and marmalade. The color, while it will deepen into the gold spectrum, retains its freshness and green hues and does not go brown, and that the flavors and palate do not "dry out",but stay fresh with any sweet fruit characters that were initially in the wine remaining.

The 2009 vintage continues a long run of great vintages from Pewsey Vale Vineyard. The wines were powerful and limey, with amazing natural acidity. After a dry winter and spring, the vines got off to a good start and set well balanced crops. The heat wave in January, while not ideal, caused few problems. The weather in February, March and into April was cool with particularly cool nights - absolutely perfect for slow ripening, accumulation of flavours and retention of natural acid.