Monday, November 10, 2014

Shipping wine with your household goods?

This morning when I woke up to a deep frost and cold temperatures, couldn't help but think that pretty much anything exposed is going to freeze.  First call this morning was from a person who is moving in January and has a wine collection.

Our advise?  Do not ship a wine collection with your household goods on a moving van.  Shipping wine might be ok for a very short distance in a moderate climate, but long distances are extremely risky due the the wine's exposure to either cold or heat. 

Consider this; you try to ship your wine across country and suddenly the nation experiences another "polar vortex".  Last year one shipment going across country with a valuable wine collection was stuck in the polar vortex in the midwest and guess what.  It froze. 

Better to find and pay for a specialized wine shipper who may ship your collection by air or other means to protect it. 

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  2. I am relocating for my work and we only have a couple of weeks to get everything moved. I hadn't even thought about the wine collection we have in our basement until we started packing. I've tried to think of every possible solution, but none of them seemed safe enough. It's a lot of wine and we'd lose a lot of money if they broke during our move. I think your method of moving them would be perfect, though. We'll have to hire a moving service that has experience with moving wine. http://www.midwestmoving.com/relocation/business

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