Nos Caves, a Houston-based developer of the Nos Caves Vin (NCV) concept, is planning to increase its wine business in the downstream sector of Houston.
Under the NCV concept, the company helps wine collectors by developing climate controlled storage specifically for wines, and by providing services for transporting and storing wines.
The current expansion plan calls for building additional off-site wine storage facilities and adding other services later in 2013.
Nos Caves CEO Jost Lunstroth said he decided to focus on the downstream sector because there are a lot of very talented people around the world making great wine - the upstream.
"There are a lot of very smart businesses selling wine to the consumers - the midstream. My background is wine storage so it was a natural path to focus on a very small niche in the downstream sector," Lunstroth added.
"Our plans are to expand to meet the ever growing needs of wine collectors in the greater Houston area."
Before creating NCV, Lunstroth built custom wine storage in Houston, Austin and San Antonio. The two NCV's currently in operation are in Rice Village area of Houston, opened in 2010, and in Memorial City of Houston, opened in early 2013.
Nos Caves general manager Kate Bourne said in addition to secure, climate controlled wine storage, NCV provides their wine collector members with a truly unique set of services - private lounge, wine events and more.
"Some of our new locations will be solely for wine storage," Bourne added.
"However, we do plan on opening more full service NCV locations throughout Texas."
