2010 – Created the first wine luggage for non-industry folk ([It’s the real thing - vid])
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I’ve traveled with my Wine Check a dozen times. Maybe more. I didn’t realize I wasn’t supposed to travel by air with just the normal insert and 12 bottles until about the seventh time, when I flew Dallas to Houston to Orlando all in the same day. Made it Dallas to Houston, but had 1 bottle get busted Houston to Orlando. Then Toddfather let me know that air travel means styro shipper insert. Oops!
The thing is an absolute unit. Remains in near perfect condition despite very heavy use. I’ll be using mine again, with confidence, on Feb 20, packed with absurdly great wines to share with my WB wine pals.
Todd I can’t believe it was you that invented this!!! Thank you so much. I have had two of these that have travelled the world with me over the last decade. France x3, Italy, Chile, Australia x3 and so, so many domestic trips.
My favorite thing about these is how easy it is to bring a case of wine and my golf clubs on a trip flying by myself!
I also use these to bring wine home to MN and then pack it full of delicious beer on my flight home. After Covid traveling hiatus I forgot how many 12 packs equal 49 pounds and absolutely packed the thing full of beer. Put it on the scale and it weighed like 70 pounds. Fortunately the airline person helping us thought it was so hilarious he didn’t charge us the extra hundred dollars for the obscenely overweight baggage fee.
Technically, it was Shawnda’s idea…I just helped make it a reality tweaking the design a bit and working with case/bag manufacturers, with whom I had a little experience
We never take a significant trip (unless to Europe or another wine region) without ours. I must have used my main one 25 times by now?
Technically, it was visitors to Napa and Sonoma asking repeatedly why there wasn’t an alternative to expensive and restrictive shipping. I just listened. Necessity the mother of invention.
Never saw so many Elites (other than the warehouse) than when we had the Morgan Ranch auction ‘deck party’ hosted by @Carrie_Morgan - @Brian_Tuite had several of them, all full, of course, and @Brian_Bohr had a couple…I think @Mike_Stoneking and @Scott_Watkins each had one…of course the one who didn’t was me
funny you say that…early on, like 2010 or something, we had a winemaker who loved to travel with his Wine Check (no Elite at the time) back and forth to Minnesota. He’d bring wine in the Wine Check and his family knew to have venison vacuum sealed in bags in the shape of a wine bottle that he would fill for the flight back! Genius.
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