Please don't ship to Southern California 90's temps here

Commerce Corner - Wine Classifieds
#1

Please don’t ship me any cooked wines.

#2

Okay. And likewise.

#3

Nobody should ship out of SoCal either.

#4

Yeah, yeah, American’s getting my money…whatever.

#5

US Americans?

#6

Despite my plea for no shipping, sure enough I get the package today! [soap.gif] deadhorse

#7

headbang headbang headbang

#8

Wait, are you suggesting that somewhere out there is a winery or wine store that doesn’t read every post you make here? [scratch.gif]

#9

No Ken, I don’t expect that. However I did contact the seller and I got a reply that the wine would not be shipped.

#10

I had prescheduled a shipping date a few weeks in advanced (2 $20 bottles), for a small get-together next week. I realized I should have delayed the shipping and bought something locally but not until it was too late. Been 95+ here the past week and it arrived today from the East Coast, so I’ll see soon if anything was cooked.

#11

Ah, then the seller sucks!!!

#12

Can’t cure stupid. Nice in cool in SD today! [thumbs-up.gif]

#13

Popped 2 bottles last night that I had shipped from East Coast during the previous week’s heat and not a sign of temp damage. [thumbs-up.gif]

#14

I have also asked to not have wine shipped in hot weather, and out the door it went anyways. [swearing.gif]
Another thing that gets under my skin is shipping on Thursday or Friday. [scratch.gif]
Miss the driver and it sits in the warehouse all weekend.

#15

A case arrived this morning. Looks like it was shipped out yesterday from Paso so I’m not going to worry too much.

#16

I never worry about anything that comes overnight…but I do always like to look at the tracking information to see when the package was picked up.

#17

Good… but most young wines won’t show temp damage right away unless it’s egregious.

The question, of course is even if the wine spent 4-5 days at 80F… will it matter in the long run? Or is this really more of a binary thing - either the wines are ruined straight off by getting to a really high temp (and leaking etc) or they’re basically OK with a few days at temps not affecting them noticeably? If a wine is shipped at ~60F in a styro container and never gets above the mid-70s for a few days, i just don’t think it’s going to be harmed. If it gets to 95F for one day, I’d bet it will be ruined.