Winery Tasting Room Moving in the Sacramento Valley

Winery access is its own problem. Many foothill properties have a long gravel or dirt drive, a gate, a low bridge or a tight turn at the parking lot, and a truck that fits a downtown street may not fit a vineyard lane. We ask for photos of the approach or drive it before the day, and on a narrow site we can shuttle with a smaller truck.

Timing is set by your calendar, not ours. Tell us the last tasting weekend, any club release or event on the books, and when the new room will be ready. We usually load the day after the last public tasting. If the room closes only midweek, ask us about a Saturday or Sunday load instead. In spring we still start early, because an afternoon carry across an exposed parking lot gets hot quickly.

Tasting-room furniture is often custom: live-edge bar tops, reclaimed barrel staves, iron shelving. Each piece is padded on all faces and strapped upright, and a slab bar top that lifts free is carried on its edge by enough people that it never flexes across its length. Wine-wall racks are marked shelf by shelf before they come apart, with a photo of the wall so the display can be rebuilt without guesswork.

Nothing in our load holds wine. Your staff clears the displays, and the licensee boxes and counts every bottle before we arrive, including sample and open bottles behind the bar. Glassware is packed by your team or ours, one style to a carton. Candles, chocolate, olive oil and anything else that can melt or spoil in a hot truck ride with your staff.