What have we been doing?
We’ve been busy at the warehouse. It’s probably got something to do with the lack of snow on the mountain and the excitement of early spring weather in Portland.
The rooftop is covered with healthy indigenous vegetation as well as sporting a new 15 ton high efficiency two phase cooling unit. On the first floor, we captured another 4,000 sq. ft of storage space for commercial use. The space is partitioned out into several medium and large size spaces to accommodate wine importers, wholesalers, and anybody else needing a secure climate controlled space. There are many amenities here at our facility and we see it as a wine business incubator for those starting out as well as for those already established but who are running a lean enterprise.
Our wine retail program, purevinewines.com, continues to grow with new members from all over the country. While part of our job has gotten easier due to all of the new organic and biodynamic wineries, it has at the same time gotten more difficult with so many great selections to choose from; lots of tastings. We’re proud to say Oregon is way ahead of anywhere else in regards to eco conscious farming and biodynamic principles. I’d love to see more Washington wines take up this trend. The club format is a lot of fun for us and keeps us on our toes by always looking for the next wine candidate. Fortunately, the club has not outgrown the supply available to us. Many of the wines we feature are small batch productions with very limited quantities. Right now we are in that "sweet spot" where we are big enough to have the buying power but still small enough where we can provide these rare wines to all our members. We love all the feedback and wine reviews we’ve been getting on the purevinewines site. We encourage more of you to do this as it adds to the overall experience and lets us know if we’re doing a good enough job. We’ve taken special care to follow your suggestions and fulfill your requests.
Portland Wine Storage Celebrates Its First Decade Of Life!
A special message to our wine storage clients: Please join us on Friday, April 16th to help celebrate our 10th year in business. "Ten years" sounds like a long time when I say it, but in reality it passed by pretty quick. The best thing about it all is that due to a special blend of cool and quiet cellar conditions, a low stress work environment, and an over-abundance of reservitrol, Tom and I haven’t aged yet!
While there will be plenty of excellent food on hand, we will be relying on you to bring most of the wines; ten year old wines will score extra points.
A lot has happened since we first began in 2000( most of it good) and we are proud to say many of you have been with us the whole time. Amazingly, there are even a few of you who’ve had the discipline to keep your collections from outgrowing your storage space; luckily for us there are only a handful of you.
Do not expect this to be another Scary Bottle Night - and do expect some surprises.
For the first time ever, we have outsourced the lion’s share of the cooking burden to Daniel from "The Po House" on Hawthorne. He’ll be providing a few signature dishes along with some other stuff. Tom and I will also be putting some food out but nothing complicated to distract us from our celebration.
We will be serving food from 5:30 onward. Please join us.
You’ll get an email invitation but mark your calender now.
One final note on the upcoming party . . we mentioned 10 year old wines were appropriate for this 10 year anniversery, Yes, a 10 year old wine is good but that doesn’t mean something else won’t be better! Please do not feel pigeon-holed by our vintage and let your preference guide your success in such an important selection. The fact is, a ten year old from many parts of the world is stil just a baby; older siblings are welcome and encouraged. To go one step further, we’d even like to meet that whacky uncle.