La Cave Storage

Interested in starting a wine collection or did you run out of room at your home cellar?

LA CAVE - at your service.

Become a La Cave member and enjoy premium service while aging your wine at our secure, temperature and humidity controlled-facility.

• PHYSICAL STORAGE: Clean, streamlined, attractive, stock-segregated, private wine storage is the foundational element. But our membership model extends far beyond our secure, climate-controlled facility. Rest assured, our facility is tight - an environment of function and form, with optimal conditioning, temperature stability and back-up power generation.
• PICKUP & DROP-OFF: For new members, enjoy complimentary wine pickup from your home or office (CLT-proper), or arrange drop-off at our retail store without an appointment.
• INVENTORYING: Upon request, we’ll conduct a physical inventory of your wine, pack and store it in new storage boxes, with no extra charges.
• DATA LOADING: Following pickup and inventory services + packing, we'll confirm your inventory positions with you and load your bottle-specific, locational wine data into CellarTracker - the leading online community platform for wine collection management.
• ONLINE ACCESS: As your collection changes over time, you'll have an accurate account of your stock positions in CellarTracker.com at a moment’s notice. If you're unfamiliar with CellarTracker or don't already have an account, not to worry, we'll get your account set up and give you an app primer.
• PHYSICAL ACCESS: Enjoy unlimited access to your La Cave-stored wine during normal Petit Philippe retail store business hours. And with the assistance of a Petit Philippe wine professional, we'll ensure easy accessibility and safety when you retrieve wines or add additional inventory to your La Cave space.
• WHAT WE ARE NOT: A DIY/self-storage facility.
• INVENTORY MGMT: We can assist with all your inventory movement requests, like shipping and disposition services, consultation and gratis local moving services within Charlotte-proper.
• WINE GUIDANCE: Ask us for suggestions on wine age-ability, optimal drinking windows and/or the condition of a bottle - we are not just climate-controlled storage professionals, but more importantly, fine wine merchants with deep wine knowledge of fine wines, aging and collection.
• RETAIL ACCESS: Membership gives you first access to our curated, fine wine offerings and exclusive bottles on a weekly basis. Many of these wines never make the shelves in our retail store.
• EXCLUSIVE DISCOUNTS: Petit Philippe's La Cave membership entitles our clients to:
  • An everyday discount on all wine purchases (for regularly-priced wines), representing our highest retail mixed case discount, regardless of bottle quantity purchased.
  • Complimentary private La Cave member tastings in the Petit Philippe tasting room.
  • Advance notification to all Petit Philippe grande tastings, exclusive CLT wine dinners and in-store wine events and seasonal gatherings.
  • First access to our most allocated ‘cult' wines from the New and Old World.
  • Invitation-only winemaker visits and private on-premise tastings.
  • For many La Cave members, these soft benefits alone, outweigh the cost of storage.
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Our goal was to develop an ideal, safe, attractive and functionally-perfect storage space. We have a total of 92 individual, personal cellar spaces which have been constructed to ideal 12-bottle (750ml) case box dimensions. The facility offers optimal climate-control for fine wine storage, state-of-art security, electronic access control, 24/7 video monitoring and is located within one of Charlotte’s best residential areas. All control systems are managed by a small, professional staff from any remote location 24/7. All access to the facility is by-appointment (with 24 hours notice) and based upon a client-chaperoned model. Our LA CAVE facility is kept at a stable 55-56 degrees Fahrenheit (+/- 1 degree on average) and with ideal relative humidity of 50-60%.

From a financial perspective, we have priced our facility in order to cover our real estate + operating costs, yet still be more cost effective for clients who might consider alternatives like a self-contained wine ‘refrigerator’ like a SUB-ZERO, or a custom-constructed, residential wine room. We believe the total cost of ownership for those solutions are less cost effective in comparison to the LA CAVE solution. We offer short or long-term storage options starting with basic storage service and value-added ‘white glove’ wine management services upon request. As mentioned, These additional services include a fully-managed inventory, along with collection evaluation, cellar management/optimal consumption programing, online inventory loading, shipment receipt (for when you’re in Napa or Europe) along with local or nationwide delivery services - all customized to meet the individual needs of our clients. 

RENTAL PRICING / by personal cellar size / based upon a 1-year term.