Castle Rock

[Innkeeper]

We usually decide when to open a wine at the time of acquisition. We always ask the source about approachability. If it goes into the current consumption (80%)section of the collection, we find a place for it and drink in over the next year or three. If it needs time, we decide when that time will be (rightly or wrongly) and put it in the proper sequential place in the aging part of our collection, and enter it into the "wine laid down" file on the computer. Even then things don't always happen when they should. We recently popped a wine that was programmed for last year. No big deal. Other than occassionally being a little early or a little late in guessing a wine's "moment", we have had no big disappointments with this system. Remember that 95% of all wine made in the world is ready to go on release.