European Wine Resource Moves

European Wine Resource, a wine importer, wholesaler and e-commerce retailer, is relocating core operations to Marin County from Sacramento County, Calif.

The Marin site in Novato is said to offer easier freeway access, eliminating the need for many customers to have to cross bridges. At one point, the company was Amazon's largest international wine seller before it purchased Whole Foods.

European Wine has four employees and does single-digit millions of dollars in business. It started a cold storage unit, EWR Cold Storage, that reached full capacity, showing the demand for climate-controlled facilities among private collectors and commervial importers.