Simple question

[Thomas]

At is-wine, we keep one display bottle up on the wall, and we have some stacked wine. The stacked is put on mostly empty cartons underneath, so that what is on top is not standing for very long. The wine on the wall gets rotated once a week to the rack.

Having said that, in my experience, I've learned that, not in all but in many cases, bottles can stand upright for a few months without harming the cork. There is humidity in that little air space between the cork and the wine in the bottle. Yet, laying down is the prudent thing to do.

FYI, unless you know for sure, you cannot assume that the bottles inside a box are upside down just because you flip the box upside down. And I know for a fact that many distributor warehouses are not run efficiently enough to ensure that the cases they have stocked have ALL bottles in the warehouse face down.