Packaging challenges with Octavian: The fine wine storage perspective

Tell us a little bit about Octavian.

Where are the storage facilities located and how much wine do you store?

So we're based in Wiltshire.

We're about 20 miles outside Bath.

What has us located here is we have taken over an old stone mine.

We're predominantly based underground, which makes it ideal storage for fine wine to allow it to mature.

With it being an old stone mine, we're 100 feet below the ground.

The temperature is constant at 13 degrees, which is perfect in this heat wave at this moment in time.

We maintain humidity at 80% plus or minus five.

So it's ideal for maturing wines and looking after it.

At the moment, we are storing underground about 850,000 cases.

We've got 1,500 cases that are older than 1,900.

And at the moment, the valuation is probably over a billion pounds.

You're often one of the first custodians of a wine after release.