It isn’t affected unless your corks are pushed.
I have never had cold affect my wine. I had one shipment sit on a truck in below zero temps overnight. If shipped in styrofoam shippers, those provide a lot of protection, plus the insulation of the boxes around it.
The fedex app on iPhone is terrible and the text notices stink too.
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Here is another Fedex Folly.
I ordered a magnum of Champagne from WTSO to be served at a company party last weekend. I had it shipped to our factory where there is always someone to sign for parcels. I got a notice on the 17th that it had been delivered, and another notice that another shipment from the same vendor had arrived. The next day when I went to pick up the wine, there was only one shipment. I went to the Fedex tracer and saw that someone named MMorgan had signed for it at 3:23PM. We have no employee with that name. The parcel that was received was signed for by our shipper at 3:28PM. Obviously, the driver had delivered my wine to a previous stop is very close proximity.
I immediately put in a claim for a lost parcel, figuring that the Fedex driver would know where it had really been delivered. (Assuming that is was the regular driver on the route). Today I got a notice that Fedex had closed the lost parcel claim because it had been delivered on the 17th at 3:23. They ignored the information I gave them about the signature, the close timing, and that the two parcels were from the same shipper. They didn’t even make a try.
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I hope you guys are right! It is freezing here in Boston right now, down to 10 degrees tonight.
Somebody in one of these threads a while back said he did a test by freezing/thawing a bottle of wine and found no difference to an regular bottle.
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For many wines cold temps are part of the wine making process, but never heat so there you go, right? LOL. Cold OK. Heat no way.
I have the same problem today myself. We got rain, sleet and snow yesterday. My wine delivery has been out for delivery since yesterday at 4:46 AM. So my guess is all trucks stayed at the depot yesterday due to the weather. So mine has likely been sitting in the back of a Fedex truck since 4:46 AM yesterday.
Yes
The main danger is pushing up the corks, ruining the viability for storage. Short term drinking should be minimally affected by freezing
Berserker Day shipment to a friend in Missouri a couple of years ago. Note the fill, the cork was extruded that much by the wine.
If it hasn’t happened, doesn’t mean it can’t.
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which is literally what I said. Can happen. Probably does happen. Never happened to me.
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If you consume a white wine that’s been frozen, there can be little difference, and most red wines survive it reasonably well. But you should drink the wine within a few days of it being frozen.
Yes, I was confirming your statement with photo evidence.
The only wine I’ve had frozen was one I put in the freezer for a quick cool down and then forgot it. But, it’s only shipments from east coast that would be at much risk for me and I sometimes paid more to have them shipped air if it was especially cold.
-Al