With a growing reputation and a retail value of more than $600 million in a year, the fruit of the Western Australian vine continues to impress the discerning palette and now Perth residents can make their wine experience even better thanks to National Storage.
For a long time, serious wine collectors have known that with proper storage wine generally improves with age, but controlled environment storage is no longer just the domain of the wine connoisseur.
Perth wine lovers now have easy access to professional storage facilities to help them get the most from their wine with the opening of a brand new, state-of-the art National Storage centre at Beechboro Road North, Embleton. The centre includes 306 individual, temperature controlled units ideal for cellaring wine, along with 719 traditional storage units of varying sizes.
Mr Andrew Catsoulis, Director of Acquisitions and Development, said in the past storage facilities had focused almost entirely on the needs of people wishing to store furniture and household goods.
“But as people’s lifestyles and living space have changed, storage centres are coming into their own as the perfect place to store a vast array of items, from cars and boats, to point of sale material for businesses, and now wine,” he said.
National Storage, one of Australia’s largest domestic and commercial storage businesses, manages 46 centres nationally, with a combined capacity for storing of over one million bottles of wine.
Mr Catsoulis said the company’s focus on the wine storage business had been enhanced by the recent addition of a dedicated wine industry professional with over 10 years experience, in the wine industry, as well as wine education courses for all centre management.
“Our decision to include private and secure wine cellars within our centres responds to the increasing number of people across Western Australia who purchase wine in quantities, or who have purchased wines that will develop in taste and quality after a period of cellaring,” he said.
“Up until now the options for keeping this wine, in the absence of a home cellar, has been to store the wine in cupboards, garages or wine racks in the hope that the wine will survive the ravages of summer.
“So whether you have five or 500 cases of wine, National Storage provides the perfect solution to ensure your wine is great to the last drop.”
Mr Catsoulis added that security was a top priority at all National Storage centres including Embleton where individual door alarms, after hours monitoring and surveillance cameras have been introduced to protect the wide range of valuable and treasured items people store.
He said National Storage was in the business of providing storage solutions and was continually improving its range of services and supplies to make storage the easy option when space elsewhere was scarce.
“Essentially we are a one-stop shop for all your storage needs from boxes and packing tape, to a helpful list of reminders if you are on the move,” Mr Catsoulis said.
National Storage at Embleton is open six days a week.
