Shipping privately owned wine

Too bad. Maybe you can work out something with some Boston area board denizen who could pick up, maybe in exchange for buying a couple of bottles.

On more general issue of shipping privately - I'd agree with Mark about insurance. Maybe if package was lost, you could collect. But if it were broken (more likely in my experience) and you weren't accurate re contents, they won't pay. And if package was lost,and you made claim, and then it turned up, it's now insurance fraud!

It sounds like this calls for a vacation to Boston at some stage. Google tells me that it is only about a 2,000 mile round trip by road.

It sounds like this calls for a vacation to Boston at some stage. Google tells me that it is only about a 2,000 mile round trip by road.

Last time I looked this was illegal also. Technically, you can only transport one gallon or less into Indiana and we all know we wouldn't want to counsel Sam to do anything illegal, lest we be arrested for conspiracy.

It sounds like this calls for a vacation to Boston at some stage. Google tells me that it is only about a 2,000 mile round trip by road.

Last time I looked this was illegal also. Technically, you can only transport one gallon or less into Indiana and we all know we wouldn't want to counsel Sam to do anything illegal, lest we be arrested for conspiracy.

Bill,
Please correct me if I'm wrong, but wasn't that limit struck down with the ban on interstate shipping? From what I can glean from freethegrapes, consumers have a 24-case annual limit. No mention of a daily limit.

Mark Lipton

Mark-
This restriction applies to all alcoholic beverages. IIRC, I can't go across the river to Louisville and stock up on wine/Scotch and bring it back across the river in any quantity, even for personal consumption (taxes, you know). I could be all wrong about this but will check the statutes over the weekend if I can fit it into my bizzy schedule.
BP

[David M. Bueker]

Luckily the transportation by car is rarely, if ever enforced.

It used to be. There was a time when CT state troopers would sit in the parking lot of my favorite wine shop in Mass. The trick was to head north one exit. They would only follow you if you headed south back towards Connecticut after a trip to the Massachusetts shop.

Not that I ever used such an underhanded trick of course...

It used to be. There was a time when CT state troopers would sit in the parking lot of my favorite wine shop in Mass

They weren't out of their jurisdiction in Massachusetts? I guess they couldn't do anything until you got back to CT. But still.

[David M. Bueker]

It used to be. There was a time when CT state troopers would sit in the parking lot of my favorite wine shop in Mass

They weren't out of their jurisdiction in Massachusetts? I guess they couldn't do anything until you got back to CT. But still.

Yes they were, but indeed they only had to wait for people to cross the border into CT.

Thunder Road.

Hi Sam,
Could the wines in question be easily obtained in Indiana (though Indiana’s own alcohol shipping and distribution channels)? The problem with commercial wines is that they come from bonded or licensed wineries with their own shipping and distribution channels. Homemade wines are in a class all by themselves, basically an agricultural product produced in small quantities for personal use. Shipping homemade wines to competitions or to friends and family for evaluation, using Fed-Ex or UPS (and because the wine is not in the “system”) you are not really “stepping on anyone’s feet” or “ruffling anyone’s feathers”.

Salute