Summer Storage Ends!

The holiday season here begins with the official end of summer storage. During the summer it is too hot in many parts of the country to ship wine. To keep sales strong, we offer free storage to our customers during the summer. We have an actively cooled temperature controled 10,000 square foot warehouse in Oakland by the Bay.

This summer was the biggest collection of stored wine to date. Almost a third of our total warehouse space is dedicated to storage right now. You can see from the photos all the wines are securely packed in styrofoam shippers and labeled, barcoded and indexed. [note: the upper photo is blurred to keep the customer information on the labels private.] The white and silver baffling on the walls and ceilings is part of the temperature control. The cage of our new forklift is peaking over the boxes in the lower photo.

Right now we are storing over 14,000 boxes from 7,500 orders!

Today we emailed our customers that we will begin shipping out these items the first full week of November. We will also be offering extended and weekend hours in November to accomodate those people that want to pickup their wines in person.

Moving out that many packages is a big effort. By the time we are done in late November, the holiday rush will be well under way. Things will be busy here through December 23!

I started out in the restaurant industry and will close with a request: treat your service people well during the holiday season - they are overworked and underappreciated.