AMERICAN CANYON – Three wine logistics companies serving hundreds of wineries in the North Coast and Pacific Northwest have found badly needed room to expand in the tight southern Napa Valley wine warehousing market with a newly completed 411,000-square-foot facility.

All three currently occupy spaces in the cluster of expansive warehouses and distribution centers along Green Island Road at the north end of American Canyon. That’s where Madera-based Stravinski Development Group built the new warehouse, located at 644 Hanna Court, and is working to complete an adjacent 307,000-square-foot warehouse next spring.

Valley Wine Warehouse, which caters to about 300 mostly small-scale vintners, had to stop taking new customers 18 months ago to keep palettes of wine from stacking up in the aisles and hampering inventory management, according to General Manager Bill Harper.

“The thing that amazes me is that with all the bad news about the economy that, even with not taking new customers, we’ve had a steady flow of people calling us who are getting into the business for the first time with 500 to 2,000 cases,” he said.

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