More precious info on how to bring wine back from abroad
Deep into my experimentation on how to best bring back wine from abroad, I believe that I have made a breakthrough. In a recent return from Barcelona, I decided to try to check a crate of wine (again). This time, my methodology was as follows.- Drop each bottle of wine in a (dirty?) sock.
- Wrap your
dick-in-a-box, er, wine-in-a-sock in a plastic bag. Tie the bag shut. - Repeat for the other five bottles.
- Pad the bottom and sides of your crate with a shirt.
- Pack your six bottles as tight as possible.
- Pad the top of the case, making sure that the bottles can't shift laterally in their spaces within the crate.
- Nail the case shut.
- Wrap the case with either tape or that saran wrap you can get in most international terminals.
- Put your wrapped up mess into a duffel bag and pad the heck out of that (this was my critical error last time).
Sound like a lot of work to you? Well, it is. Especially when you have to haul your contraption all over the city, through the metro and through the airport. But hey, for the hard drinkers like myself, bringing back a few bottles of wine is kind of a fun souvenir from travels abroad. It's a fun reminder of the places we've been, on the shelf, over dinner and especially in our stomachs.
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Dec 4th 2007 @ 4:06PM
Jigga said...
Wow, that seems like a lot of work. I got 3 bottles of wine I had (2 from France, and 1 from Salisbury, UK) back, and it was a little easier than this. I did pretty much the same thing, but didn't use a huge case that is nailed shut. I did however, have 3 less bottles. I walked right through customs and didn't declare anything. I made it back to the States without a problem.
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Dec 4th 2007 @ 4:17PM
Carlos Moll said...
Terrorist!
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Dec 4th 2007 @ 4:26PM
Jean-Guy said...
I just traveled with 7 bottles of Scotch using a much easier method. I purchased a decent size roll of bubble wrap. Then I wrapped the shit out of each individual bottle ensuring that the tops and bottoms were also well wrapped. I knew I was ok when I knocked one of the wrapped bottles off the counter and it survived.
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Dec 4th 2007 @ 4:53PM
Grant said...
Yay Toledo!
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Dec 4th 2007 @ 5:21PM
u did what? said...
i got 11 bottles and 5 cans of beer (all different) from Canada to US in a dufflebag. just used my clothes as padding. Made sure nothing inside the bag moved and bottles cannot be felt from outside. also threw my bag around the room a couple of times just like the luggage crew does it at airports.
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Dec 4th 2007 @ 6:18PM
osoroco said...
well, through the years my dad's been perfecting this very same thing. I have family in Spain and you can bet that pretty much every time we come back every summer, my dad brings wine bottles, as many as he can. How? well, one method is to stick 2 bottles on every handbag he can get his hands on, including MY backpack. He's stuffed at most 3 bottles on my backpack. And don't forget the 6 bottle crate on his own bag (with wheels), which the bottles fit nicely. He only wraps them in paper and then some clothes when he puts it in that bag. (he's been known to smuggle 12 bottles on a single trip)
What my sister does when my dad tells her to bring wine, is stuff the wine bottles in a giant ziploc bag, then stuff that bag in between the clothes on her baggage. So far I think he's only broken one bottle.
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Dec 6th 2007 @ 4:15AM
Wes said...
its Toledo OHIO not MICHIGAN!
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Dec 19th 2007 @ 5:13PM
A&C Transport said...
That is a lot of work, but hey, it's wine so it's worth it.
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