Wine storage on Peninsula for small quantity of wine?

Wine Pimps
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Anyone have experience with WineBank in Menlo Park for storage? I’m looking for somewhere that would be cost-effective for storing a very small quantity of wine (only ~5 cases worth), and WineBank appears to be one of the few local places offering very small sizes for shelf lockers. (K&L’s RWC location does too, I’m told, but has a waiting list that’s too long for what I need.) Any ideas?

Thanks in advance!

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Where in the Peninsula are you located?

K&L has another warehouse in San Carlos, but they don’t have any lockers that small.
I use Arco Wine storage in South San Francisco.

Do you anticipate needing more than 8-9 cases of wine of storage in a year or so? It’s a slippery slope =D

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I have used Winebank for over 2 years and I’m extremely pleased with their “manned” service and facility. I went with them because of the K&L waitlist, the location and reviews. The only grumble is that they are not open on Monday but they have good hours every other day. They have everything you would expect; unique access codes, carts, ability to receive shipments (I had 2 pallets shipped!), ability to buy and sell wine, options for lable printing with links to CellarTracker, etc.
There are not that cheap but I feel that they are worth the money given their location in the peninsula (and close to 101 too!). Would definitely recommend them.

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Mike, unless this is some recent development, WineBank has been open 7 days a week for at least a couple of years, probably more.

I’ve been using them for storage pretty near to when it opened, and am a totally satisfied customer.

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Actually you are correct, they are open 7 days a week. Not sure where I got the Monday closing from… and I was waiting until Tuesday to deposit the weekend haul… [scratch.gif]

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It’s quite possible. :slight_smile: I need the storage for the current set of cases ASAP because I’m going to be out of the country for a few months. Other than location, one of the things I liked about WineBank (based on web research alone) is that it has very small lockers that I could start with, and then upgrade to larger space as I need it. I’m glad to hear people have had good experiences with it. Thanks much for your replies.

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L. Williams

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Hey Levi,

When I lived in the Bay Area, I used http://www.millbraewinestorage.com/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Great prices…I think they had some promotion where if you pay for 6 months, you get one free, etc, etc.

They had small storage all the way to huge rooms. Secure and cost effective.

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I think it was a year or so ago they started being open on Mondays. (That was the one drawback, as a [former] restaurant person, Monday is chore day.) Anyway, very happy with them.