The date of bottling is determined by tasting. It means that the wine may remain in cask for up to eighteen months. It is necessary to wait until the wine has lost the vigour of its early youth, yet still retains its richness and its flesh. The corks are severely selected, and controled again just before being introduced in the bottling machine. The capsuling, labelling and packing in wooden cases is done immediately prior to dispach, thus ensuring an impeccable presentation. Indeed, all the bottles are wrapped by hand inside a fine white tissue paper. The bottling process lasts two months.Then the consumer should wait a few months more before finding the bottles on the market (that is, nearly two and a half years after the harvest), and many years before tasting them...