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 2008 vintage was a time of extremes. Although it was very dry going into the harvest period, Eden Valley had received good winter rains and was looking healthy and fresh. As February progressed the weather remained dry, mild and stable, and importantly the evenings were cool, all of which was perfect for maintaining the fine flavors and natural acids in Riesling.