Police say some of the victims may not yet even know their wine was stolen since Esquin Wine & Storage staff and detectives are still attempting to reach the hundreds of people who rented specially temperature controlled storage units in the store. Original post:| Seattle police announced this morning that they have recovered a ‘substantial’ amount of wine stolen during an elaborate Thanksgiving Day heist from a Sodo wine storage business. On Tuesday, police served a search warrant at a building less than a mile away from Esquin Wine Merchants, which was targeted by Sam Harris and Luke Thesing, who police believe broke into the business and stole the wine worth $648,000 on Thanksgiving. After the heist, victims and detectives were concerned the wine taken in the burglary would be damaged or destroyed by men if it was improperly stored, but it appears the thieves kept the wine in a temperature-controlled environment. Chuck LeFever, owner of Esquin, has issued the following statement: 
 
 Words can’t express how thrilled we are that the wine stolen from our facility on Thanksgiving Day has been safely recovered. Police said two men stole more than 200 cases of wine, with an estimated value of $648,000, from Esquin on Nov. 29. Thesing was booked into the King County Jail early Saturday morning for burglary and arson. They are also accused of tampering with gas lines that could have caused a big explosion had the gas reached an open flame, charging papers say. Seattle detectives are working with investigators in San Francisco to see if the men are responsible for a wine heist in California last Spring.
– Give thanks, oenophiles: An "elaborate" Thanksgiving Day wine heist has met its end, after Seattle police on Tuesday recovered most if not all of the 2,500 stolen bottles, valued at $648,000. Kindly, the thieves apparently kept the 200 cases safe in a "temperature controlled environment" at a Sodo storage facility less than a mile from where the theft took place, the Seattle Times reports. "While we are still doing an inventory to make sure it's all there" (that's no small feat; every bottle has to be photographed and entered into evidence) "the volume recovered makes us eager with anticipation," says the owner of Esquin Wine & Spirits, who called the theft "something out of Ocean's 11." Two men disabled motion detectors, painted over surveillance cameras, broke into private storage lockers where they "cherry picked" wine from France and Italy, and tampered with gas lines in a bid to start a fire after their exit, the owner tells KIRO TV. But Samuel Harris and Luke Thesing allegedly weren't Ocean's 11 enough: One of the cameras wasn't completely painted over, and staff IDed Harris, who had rented a storage unit of his own in October; a Lowe's receipt led police to video footage of Thesing shopping for supplies with Harris. The two have been charged with attempted arson, burglary, and theft, but those charges may not be all they have to worry about: A San Francisco wine consultant says he bought $100,000 worth of wine from Harris and another man this spring, a few months after a big wine theft in the area. Police are investigating if the two cases are related. (Another recent wine find: the oldest wine cellar on record.)