I snagged some of the '08 Comtes from the original Woodland Hills offering, but my wine only now is coming in. They are offering to ship it in a weeks time via ground, from CA to NY “with cold packs”. This is now early May. Phoenix is 100F. I’m assuming the shipping window is firmly lost and it makes sense to hold it now at Woodland Hills till November. But I have a logistical preference to take it now. Curious if perhaps I am overthinking it, and shipping next week would be a-ok.
I ordered from Mending Wall a few years ago for a summer wedding and they shipped it ground with cold packs and it was still cool when the wine arrived. Unless you’re planning on cellaring then yeah why not wait until Nov.
the companies that do use one to go from Cali to SC I have never understood. yes, its cold chain. but then it gets dropped off with Fed Ex in FLORIDA of all places, and goes ground from there. seems like terrible planning for a cold chain company to choose THE HOTTEST STATE as their transfer location.