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.
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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
Supposed delivery attempt today, sent me a picture of the door tag, in the photo you can clearly see the wrong door color, wrong house siding and no ring doorbell. A struggle to reach anyone by phone on this too
Why people don’t reroute wine to a FedEx or UPS store is beyond me. Makes life so much easier. One retailer I use has the FedEx address as my preferred shipping address even. UPS shipments get rerouted automatically. I pay $20 a year for the service and would gladly pay more just for the peace of mind.
Even easier - ship to a nearby mail center that the FedEx guy stops at twice a day. I have all my wine shipped there and they charge $1 a box for the convenience.
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icewein? 
WT…? I just had a case of wine delivered by FedEx and they left it by my mail box. Whose signature did they get?
When I got up this morning and checked the tracking, it said estimated delivery between 8:15 and 10:15. It also showed a name and picture of the driver - who was not the usual driver for this route. For S&G’s tried using the map feature to track its progress but FedEx said that was currently not working. Fine. I am at home all this morning, so I’ll be here to sign for it. At about 9:50 I went out on my front porch and see a box down at the street by my mail box. I can see the FedEx label on the side that says signature required so I know it is the wine and not some other package. Why he did not drive up our driveway (we have plenty of room to turn around) and leave it by the side door I don’t know. But that’s wild.
I guess this gets down to YMMV. Putting aside this morning’s event noted above. I have never had a problem/issues with FedEx delivering to my house. Yet I have had some problems when I have had them delivered to FedEx stores (can’t find the box for days or in one case mistakenly sent back even though I showed up the following morning) or other delivery sites like the Dollar General store in town.(and yes, I checked with that store manager before having wine delivered there. She said they do accept wine deliveries - it was a few of her employees that seemed to have the problem) Which is why I went back to having them delivered to my house. Again, all I can say is YMMV.
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