Delivery kilometers & Carbon Footprint

[Rory]

This is a sample of what happens on the Mornington Peninsula when dealing with the major wineries on the Peninsula.

I put in a wholesale order to a local winery, not 15 minutes from my store. The wine gets delivered from their Melbourne depot via a third party (a wine logistics of sorts). The day day previous is a 35 deg blockbuster, the day it arrives is pushing 40.
The wine (Chardonnay) arrives very warm to touch, and i mean very warm to touch on a 40 degree day!
I call the winery, they are shocked, and send a replacement immediately from their stock. Fair enough.

Apart from the poor van storage, the issue I have is that the original wine got sent past my front door to Melbourne storage, only to come back again!

It's absurd.

[swirler]

Sorry. Could you explain. Was it the exact same bottle.

Generally, I'd guess that when we send bottles back they are just sold to some other sucker.

[Ian S]

Might be better in future just to come to an agreement - this year I'll pick it up myself from the winery, next year you drop it round to me, and so on. Seems crazy to involve the depot and 3rd party if you're that close.

[phillisc]

Yes just brought some more TWE products in a sale.
Presume they went from the winery, or at least the region if bottled there...from SA over to Victoria then, via Karadoc of all places, to do a loop back to me in Adelaide.
One of the boxes looked a little tatty, but contents inside all in order.
And this is smart logistics??

Cheers
Craig