Damon's Vision: Transforming Wine Storage into an Experience Pt. 2

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Traditionally, wine is stored in a cellar or basement. But Bottle bank is revolutionizing this practice by offering a modern, secure, climate controlled solution with other amenities too.

We return to our engaging dialogue with Damon Rocky of Bottle Bank. They can store it there and more importantly, they can enjoy it. That's five Minute Wine Podcast.

Putting this whole thing together, you did some research, right? Correct. Was it done through a company or your just own experiences and you just started putting them down? How did you come into making a clear vision? Really kind of on my own, it's morphed over time. Initially it was I looked at strictly wine storage and there's a couple of folks in Atlanta that do traditional wine storage.

Just a warehouse at 55 degrees, basic utilitarian storage for folks that have outgrown their current cellaring situation. And I was looking at wine storage literally all over the world. So Australia, New Zealand, the uk, different places in Europe, all over the US and again that's when I kind of realized most of these places didn't have anything that allowed people to take advantage of a wine community.

You know, some had a small little tasting room or a tiny little lounge, but nothing really hospitality driven. And in my former life I was in sales and consulting and financial services and did a lot of work with restaurateurs and chefs and those types of folks. So had kind of had a background in hospitality from that side of it.

And I think it started out as more of a wine storage concept supported with hospitality. And over time as we've conceptualized the business, it's really flip flopped. Now it's more of a hospitality concept with a wine storage component. So like a safe deposit box kind of situation where you when if you bring in a particular bottle you.

So I don't know if you've listened to the episode, but I talked to wine investors and where you can buy together with multiple people buy a $5,000 bottle of wine, say so Vint Co perhaps you buy this expensive bottle, you bring it to the bank. Is it stored someplace else or is it in your actual storage part of the bank? So each individual member. So we're going to be a semi private concept. So we are open to the public, but we also have an optional membership component.

So one of the benefits of membership is an individual private wine vault. And we're going to have two different sizes. We're still figuring out the exact capacity, but as it stands now we'll have one size that's going to be between three and four cases and a second size that will be smaller at one case.

So individuals will have the ability to source wine from us, but also more importantly, wherever they obtain their wine, if it's online, if it's at a local wine store, if it's via an allocation list or a wine club subscription, we can accept their shipments, they can come and pick them up, or they can say, leave the wine there. At Bottle bank, we will stick it in their private vault. They can store it there and more importantly, they can enjoy it.

So the overall size of the space is about 9,000 square feet, of which about 3,000 square feet is going to be the wine vault where members can store their wine.

And the remaining square footage is going to be again, a big lounge, tasting rooms, chef's table, tasting counter, some other fun kind of amenities that we've put together to kind of create the Bottle bank experience holistically.

In our next interview with Damon Rocky, co founder of bottlebank.com we will get into who their customer is. I envision Bottle bank appealing to a variety of individuals and that's the great thing about wine. You know, it's inclusive and it is connected. Who's bringing wine to the next big scene? It's David Rocky and he's living the dream. BottleBank.com he's co founder too.

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