Wine storage

[Dawgman]

Haven't posted in awhile so I thought I'd might. As I stated in earlier post, I run a grocery store or supermarket if you'd rather. We have a wine department in our store. My question is this...how do you folks feel about purchasing wine from a grocery store. We store all of our wine standing up. We just don't have the facilities to store the wine on it's side (or more likely, our company decided that we can display more wine standing up.) It hasn't seem to hurt our sales at all and we actually get compliments on our selection. We do not stock any fine wines (yet anyway - I am campaigning to get a fine wine case in my store) with our most expensive wine being $33 (a Ravenwoods merlot and a Ruffino chianti). Just wondered what you all felt about grocery stores selling wine - of course I make most of my purchases there - afterall it's my store :->

[tandkvd]

Wine selections in Kannapolis are scarce to say the leist. I go to Charlotte to buy most of my wine. However, Harris Teeter has a deasent selection. I get some there when I don't have much time. I have noticed that there Rosemont wines have a quick turnover, so they are probaly not standing upright too long.

We are making it big here in K-Town. Although, it looks bad for Pillowtex Mills (Kannapolis's largest employer). Sam's Club is opening a very large store here. I'll have to check there wines when they open.

[Innkeeper]

As long as the inventory turns over every six months, it should not be a problem. Super markets up here keep everything upright too, and this does factor into what I buy there. If you move to more upscale wines, you would be wise to obtain a display case that would allow horizontal storage, added security, and perhaps even temperature/humidity control.

[wondersofwine]

I get a few wines at the Harris-Teeter grocery store here. The only one I thought might have been damaged by storing upright was a 1998 wine. The 1999 and others probably were not sitting on the shelf as long. For more expensive wines ($35-50), I would prefer to buy from a shop where they are stored on their sides. Let us know if you succeed in placing some higher end wines in the store and how they fare. Special storage for the more expensive wines as IK suggested would be good.