A question about scotch, specifically cork sealed caps

I finally found a good sipping scotch with not a bad price. The Glenlivet Founders Reserve. Almost out of one bottle, I had decided to keep the rest, about a third of a bottle for a special occasion. 

Cut to today, I stopped by the store and bought a new bottle. I have decided to enjoy the first bottle and never break the foil on the one I bought till a special occasion.

They use a cork sealed bottle where the cork is attached to the plastic cap, my question is, the liquid has already touched the cork, will it now "cork" the scotch like wine gets corked when not stored on its side? or is this different? I don't want to find out it is ruined when I open it later(could be weeks, could be years) and I will pour it into a different container if needed to prevent that. Or will it be fine the way it is? Or do I simply need to store the bottle on its side?

It should be fine. Source: have drank a lot of scotch. 

Corking in the wine industry has little to do with the actual cork material itself, and a lot to do with the fact that mother nature is not a sigma six blackbelt. 

Pete

It is possible. My grandpa talked about it happening once; he poured all of his stuff in a different bottle (crown bottle I think). 

However, the chances of it happening are slim to none. I’ve never experienced it with bourbon, and my favorite is a corked bottle.

I appreciate the input. Since it does seem to be possible, I scrounged around and found something to put it in. Thanks guys! 

From what I have heard, with a corked bottle, the cork will eventually dry out and leak if not stored on its side.   I think we are talking about many years though.

How about one of the rubber vacuum stoppers for wine bottles, if it's open? I haven't tried then with other spirits, but they keep open bottles of wine Good for quite a while. 

I'm pulling this out of my ass, but I think corked wine is due to the cork drying and leaking air into the bottle, which lets the wine oxidize.  I don't know if whiskey reacts the same way, but I doubt it.  A half bottle of wine goes off, a half bottle of whiskey, not so much.

Streetwiseguy said:

I'm pulling this out of my ass, but I think corked wine is due to the cork drying and leaking air into the bottle, which lets the wine oxidize.  I don't know if whiskey reacts the same way, but I doubt it.  A half bottle of wine goes off, a half bottle of whiskey, not so much.

That's my understanding too. It's the bacteria reacting with the oxygen and consuming the sugar in the wine producing acetic acid that makes wine go bad. I'm pretty sure scotch doesn't have that issue, at least not within a short period of time. The internet seems to back me up on that. The second source says that Scotch will actually eat the cork if you store it on its side.

Like was said, the cork on wine needs to stay wet to keep the seal and keep the wine from touching oxygen. With spirits, you’re more at risk from sunlight than a bad cork. Even still, flipping the bottle every so often to wet the cork wouldn’t be a bad thing either. I usually do it whenever I’m in the cabinet for whatever else.