Wine Storage Facility Fire

by Deidre Woollard (RSS feed)
Oct 13th 2005 at 2:30PM

We've talked about wine storage facilities as a safe option for your precious collection but what happens when the facility has a fire? The San Francisco Chronicle reports that Wines Central in Vallejo, California went up in a three alarm fire on Wednesday. The storage facility was a fortress-like structure that had steel doors and a concrete roof which made things very difficult for firefighters. Tens of millions of dollars of prized wines are believed destroyed. The facility has been open since 2002 and stored more than 500,000 cases of rare vintages for wineries and private collectors.

[Thanks, Rupert]

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Finished.Law.School Dec 18th 2005 6:02PM

Their lawyers will be busy for a while...

Warren Porter Dec 18th 2005 6:02PM

There are so many wine storage facilities that are in the same physical building as completely non-related businesses it astounds me. I see wine storage even within self storage facilities where you have NO idea what the guy storing beside you has in his locker. We considered this when we formed Iron Gate Cellarage and have the building completely seperate. In fact, we will allow NO mechanical equipment in the vault that could possibly short and start a fire and all wiring is encased. A lot can be learned from this fire.