I have to buy and send a good bottle of wine to a friend in Spain, from here
in Italy.

I know absolutely nothing about the shipping part (the buying is pretty
easy). In the United States, it can be tricky sending wine over borders -- I
think I recall that it wasn't even necessarily legal in the old days,
although I find it hard to believe that that would still be the case today.

So: does somebody know something about sending wine from Italy to Spain?
Perhaps there are international shippers that somebody has used and liked?

Thanks for any inputs,

John

On Thu, 21 Oct 2004 13:59:29 GMT, "JMF" > wrote:

>I have to buy and send a good bottle of wine to a friend in Spain, from here
>in Italy.
>
>I know absolutely nothing about the shipping part (the buying is pretty
>easy). In the United States, it can be tricky sending wine over borders -- I
>think I recall that it wasn't even necessarily legal in the old days,
>although I find it hard to believe that that would still be the case today.
>
>So: does somebody know something about sending wine from Italy to Spain?
>Perhaps there are international shippers that somebody has used and liked?

No problem, you can ship wine as if it were any merchandise. Use the
post, they have special boxes for wine. I have never had problems.



Mike Tommasi, Six Fours, France
email link http://www.tommasi.org/mymail

On Thu, 21 Oct 2004 13:59:29 GMT, "JMF" > wrote:

>I have to buy and send a good bottle of wine to a friend in Spain, from here
>in Italy.
>
>I know absolutely nothing about the shipping part (the buying is pretty
>easy). In the United States, it can be tricky sending wine over borders -- I
>think I recall that it wasn't even necessarily legal in the old days,
>although I find it hard to believe that that would still be the case today.
>
>So: does somebody know something about sending wine from Italy to Spain?
>Perhaps there are international shippers that somebody has used and liked?

No problem, you can ship wine as if it were any merchandise. Use the
post, they have special boxes for wine. I have never had problems.



Mike Tommasi, Six Fours, France
email link http://www.tommasi.org/mymail

"JMF" > wrote in
:

> I have to buy and send a good bottle of wine to a friend in Spain,
> from here in Italy.
>
> I know absolutely nothing about the shipping part (the buying is
> pretty easy). In the United States, it can be tricky sending wine over
> borders -- I think I recall that it wasn't even necessarily legal in
> the old days, although I find it hard to believe that that would still
> be the case today.
>
> So: does somebody know something about sending wine from Italy to
> Spain? Perhaps there are international shippers that somebody has used
> and liked?
>
> Thanks for any inputs,
>
> John
>
>
>

At the risk of starting one of our favorite agreement threads, US Law is
still pretty much in the dark ages with regard to wine shipments, sorry
I can't help onthe European issue.

"JMF" > wrote in
:

> I have to buy and send a good bottle of wine to a friend in Spain,
> from here in Italy.
>
> I know absolutely nothing about the shipping part (the buying is
> pretty easy). In the United States, it can be tricky sending wine over
> borders -- I think I recall that it wasn't even necessarily legal in
> the old days, although I find it hard to believe that that would still
> be the case today.
>
> So: does somebody know something about sending wine from Italy to
> Spain? Perhaps there are international shippers that somebody has used
> and liked?
>
> Thanks for any inputs,
>
> John
>
>
>

At the risk of starting one of our favorite agreement threads, US Law is
still pretty much in the dark ages with regard to wine shipments, sorry
I can't help onthe European issue.

"Mike Tommasi" > wrote in message
...
> On Thu, 21 Oct 2004 13:59:29 GMT, "JMF" > wrote:
>
> >I have to buy and send a good bottle of wine to a friend in Spain, from
here
> >in Italy.
> >
> >I know absolutely nothing about the shipping part (the buying is pretty
> >easy). In the United States, it can be tricky sending wine over
borders -- I
> >think I recall that it wasn't even necessarily legal in the old days,
> >although I find it hard to believe that that would still be the case
today.
> >
> >So: does somebody know something about sending wine from Italy to Spain?
> >Perhaps there are international shippers that somebody has used and
liked?
>
> No problem, you can ship wine as if it were any merchandise. Use the
> post, they have special boxes for wine. I have never had problems.

Thanks, sounds like it won't be a big hassle.

John

"Mike Tommasi" > wrote in message
...
> On Thu, 21 Oct 2004 13:59:29 GMT, "JMF" > wrote:
>
> >I have to buy and send a good bottle of wine to a friend in Spain, from
here
> >in Italy.
> >
> >I know absolutely nothing about the shipping part (the buying is pretty
> >easy). In the United States, it can be tricky sending wine over
borders -- I
> >think I recall that it wasn't even necessarily legal in the old days,
> >although I find it hard to believe that that would still be the case
today.
> >
> >So: does somebody know something about sending wine from Italy to Spain?
> >Perhaps there are international shippers that somebody has used and
liked?
>
> No problem, you can ship wine as if it were any merchandise. Use the
> post, they have special boxes for wine. I have never had problems.

Thanks, sounds like it won't be a big hassle.

John

"jcoulter" > wrote in message
...
> "JMF" > wrote in
> :
>
> > I have to buy and send a good bottle of wine to a friend in Spain,
> > from here in Italy.
> >
> > I know absolutely nothing about the shipping part (the buying is
> > pretty easy). In the United States, it can be tricky sending wine over
> > borders -- I think I recall that it wasn't even necessarily legal in
> > the old days, although I find it hard to believe that that would still
> > be the case today.
> >
> > So: does somebody know something about sending wine from Italy to
> > Spain? Perhaps there are international shippers that somebody has used
> > and liked?
> >
> > Thanks for any inputs,
> >
> > John
> >
> >
> >
>
> At the risk of starting one of our favorite agreement threads, US Law is
> still pretty much in the dark ages with regard to wine shipments, sorry
> I can't help on the European issue.

Amazing ... so the U.S. still hasn't cleaned up its act in that area.

John

"jcoulter" > wrote in message
...
> "JMF" > wrote in
> :
>
> > I have to buy and send a good bottle of wine to a friend in Spain,
> > from here in Italy.
> >
> > I know absolutely nothing about the shipping part (the buying is
> > pretty easy). In the United States, it can be tricky sending wine over
> > borders -- I think I recall that it wasn't even necessarily legal in
> > the old days, although I find it hard to believe that that would still
> > be the case today.
> >
> > So: does somebody know something about sending wine from Italy to
> > Spain? Perhaps there are international shippers that somebody has used
> > and liked?
> >
> > Thanks for any inputs,
> >
> > John
> >
> >
> >
>
> At the risk of starting one of our favorite agreement threads, US Law is
> still pretty much in the dark ages with regard to wine shipments, sorry
> I can't help on the European issue.

Amazing ... so the U.S. still hasn't cleaned up its act in that area.

John

"JMF" wrote in message

> Amazing ... so the U.S. still hasn't cleaned up its act in that area.

Sadly, one only has to travel outside the U.S. (and I don't mean Canada,
they're just as bad) to see how third-world-like we really are in *many*
areas.

\/
(a once-content American citizen, until I visited Europe and Japan)

"JMF" wrote in message

> Amazing ... so the U.S. still hasn't cleaned up its act in that area.

Sadly, one only has to travel outside the U.S. (and I don't mean Canada,
they're just as bad) to see how third-world-like we really are in *many*
areas.

\/
(a once-content American citizen, until I visited Europe and Japan)

"JMF" > skrev i melding
...
>
> "Mike Tommasi" > wrote in message
> ...
>> On Thu, 21 Oct 2004 13:59:29 GMT, "JMF" > wrote:
>>
>> >I have to buy and send a good bottle of wine to a friend in Spain, from
> here
>> >in Italy.
>> >
Both countries are in the EU - European Union, so you just mail your bottle,
well packaged of course.
Anders

"JMF" > skrev i melding
...
>
> "Mike Tommasi" > wrote in message
> ...
>> On Thu, 21 Oct 2004 13:59:29 GMT, "JMF" > wrote:
>>
>> >I have to buy and send a good bottle of wine to a friend in Spain, from
> here
>> >in Italy.
>> >
Both countries are in the EU - European Union, so you just mail your bottle,
well packaged of course.
Anders

"Anders Tørneskog" > wrote:

>>>> I have to buy and send a good bottle of wine to a friend in
>>>> Spain, from here in Italy.

> Both countries are in the EU - European Union, so you just mail
> your bottle, well packaged of course.

And, let me add: the maximum for such shipments is 60 or 90 litres
(don't remember the exact figure right now), but even in excess of
this, shipment is possible without any problem if you have proof
of private consumption - e.g. when you buy 300 bottles of
champagne for the wedding ceremony of your daughter with an
attendence exceeding 200 people.

M.

"Anders Tørneskog" > wrote:

>>>> I have to buy and send a good bottle of wine to a friend in
>>>> Spain, from here in Italy.

> Both countries are in the EU - European Union, so you just mail
> your bottle, well packaged of course.

And, let me add: the maximum for such shipments is 60 or 90 litres
(don't remember the exact figure right now), but even in excess of
this, shipment is possible without any problem if you have proof
of private consumption - e.g. when you buy 300 bottles of
champagne for the wedding ceremony of your daughter with an
attendence exceeding 200 people.

M.

Now now Michael, you are not taking the proverbial p**s out of our
transAtlantic cousins are you?

st.h


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"JMF" > wrote in message
...
>
> "jcoulter" > wrote in message
> ...
> > "JMF" > wrote in
> > :
> >
> > > I have to buy and send a good bottle of wine to a friend in Spain,
> > > from here in Italy.
> > >
> > > I know absolutely nothing about the shipping part (the buying is
> > > pretty easy). In the United States, it can be tricky sending wine over
> > > borders -- I think I recall that it wasn't even necessarily legal in
> > > the old days, although I find it hard to believe that that would still
> > > be the case today.
> > >
> > > So: does somebody know something about sending wine from Italy to
> > > Spain? Perhaps there are international shippers that somebody has used
> > > and liked?
> > >
> > > Thanks for any inputs,
> > >
> > > John
> > >
> > >
> > >
> >
> > At the risk of starting one of our favorite agreement threads, US Law is
> > still pretty much in the dark ages with regard to wine shipments, sorry
> > I can't help on the European issue.
>
> Amazing ... so the U.S. still hasn't cleaned up its act in that area.
>
> John
>
The federal government ceded responsibility for managing the distribution
and sale of alcoholic beverages to the states some 70 years ago. As a
result, we have a hodge-podge of varying and conflicting laws regulating it.
The feds have neither a mandate nor motivation to clean it up. We do
actually derive some benefits from the tension between the feds and states,
but as a wine-lover this is certainly not one of them!

Regards,
Dean

"JMF" > wrote in message
...
>
> "jcoulter" > wrote in message
> ...
> > "JMF" > wrote in
> > :
> >
> > > I have to buy and send a good bottle of wine to a friend in Spain,
> > > from here in Italy.
> > >
> > > I know absolutely nothing about the shipping part (the buying is
> > > pretty easy). In the United States, it can be tricky sending wine over
> > > borders -- I think I recall that it wasn't even necessarily legal in
> > > the old days, although I find it hard to believe that that would still
> > > be the case today.
> > >
> > > So: does somebody know something about sending wine from Italy to
> > > Spain? Perhaps there are international shippers that somebody has used
> > > and liked?
> > >
> > > Thanks for any inputs,
> > >
> > > John
> > >
> > >
> > >
> >
> > At the risk of starting one of our favorite agreement threads, US Law is
> > still pretty much in the dark ages with regard to wine shipments, sorry
> > I can't help on the European issue.
>
> Amazing ... so the U.S. still hasn't cleaned up its act in that area.
>
> John
>
The federal government ceded responsibility for managing the distribution
and sale of alcoholic beverages to the states some 70 years ago. As a
result, we have a hodge-podge of varying and conflicting laws regulating it.
The feds have neither a mandate nor motivation to clean it up. We do
actually derive some benefits from the tension between the feds and states,
but as a wine-lover this is certainly not one of them!

Regards,
Dean

"st.helier" > wrote:

> Now now Michael, you are not taking the proverbial p**s out of
> our transAtlantic cousins are you?

;-)

M.