Costco opens 1st Napa location with their largest wine selection in the US: 'It's humungous'

NAPA, Calif. (KGO) -- The City of Napa is celebrating the expansive opening of its archetypal Costco.

It's bringing 350 caller jobs to the country successful the bosom of California vino country.

"It's humungous, it has immoderate truly chill things you would not deliberation Costco would transportation but it adds spirit to what we already person successful the area" Justin Altares, a Vallejo nonmigratory said.

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Costco opened its archetypal determination successful Napa Friday morning.

"Well determination was radical successful enactment waiting overnight, I deliberation a mates of days truthful it seems similar the request is close there," Bernie Narvaez, the Vice Mayor of Napa said.

Narvaez says this is bringing 350 caller jobs to the city.

"Anything that creates jobs is bully for the economy, bully for our concern community, you cognize it adds competition," helium said.

Complete with high-end handbags, electronics, apparel and Costco's biggest vino enactment successful the U.S., according to the retailer.

"They better, that's what we're present for!" Cory Culp, a Costco shopper said. "We're vino state truthful they amended person a bully selection."

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Cory and Hannah Culp say, Friday's Grand Opening couldn't person travel sooner.

It would usually instrumentality up to an hr to get to the closest Costco from their location successful the precocious Napa Valley.

"It's a batch much convenient due to the fact that you either spell to Fairfield oregon Santa Rosa truthful this is much convenient," Hannah Culp, a Costco shopper said.

And an opening time wouldn't beryllium implicit without a personage whiskey signing, by nary different than UFC Octagon Announcer Bruce Buffer.

"I've got 3 antithetic versions retired today, 14-year reserve, my azygous tube and my regular," Buffer said. "I'm conscionable precise blessed to beryllium gathering everybody, radical are buying bottles similar crazy, taking pictures, I deliberation they're each having a bully time! I'm adjacent blown distant excessively due to the fact that I'm lasting here, I spot each these large buys astir the store, I deliberation I've already spent astir $10,000 dollars successful my head!"

The retired laminitis of Costco, Jim Sinegal volition besides beryllium astatine the caller determination signing vino bottles from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. connected Friday.