Boy is it hot.

I just had something delivered by FedEx [not wine - just an old computer part], and the cardboard box was hot to the touch.

Feel sorry for those FedEx & UPS dudes making deliveries in this weather - their trucks must be getting up around 120/130/140F - or higher.

And any distributor who is moving wine in weather like this - without refrigerating it back to the Ice Ages - ought to have his license revoked.

Although it's actually been a relatively mild summer in Inland California (I live on the westernmost edge of the Sacramento Valley), it was HOT yesterday. I can't wait until October and I hope hope hope we get good rains this year.

The UPS guy at work is a friend of mine. He says they do indeed "cook" in those dark brown uniforms in those dark brown trucks with some of the weather we've been having lately.

don't they have the white roofed trucls? I often get 20-30 case deliveries at my office (not wine!), I always help driver. Even on hot days it doesn't seem much worse than outside temp.

Even on hot days it doesn't seem much worse than outside temp.

That was what was so weird about this package - the cardboard was HOT to the touch.

I've never experienced that before.

I think there comes a point [I dunno, maybe 150+F] where there is a danger of spontaneous combustion of paper goods.

Anyway, I sure hope the distributors aren't trying to move any product in this weather - because without some industrial strength reefers, burning through diesel fuel at $3/gallon, the wine is going to be toast.