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Hi All,

I need to ship some wine to a friend and was wondering if anyone has any experience in the past?
I have seen the winepak's and was wondering how the perform?
Would you risk a nice expensive bottle in them?
Is there any other alternatives?
TIA
Popov

Popov wrote:Hi All,

I need to ship some wine to a friend and was wondering if anyone has any experience in the past?
I have seen the winepak's and was wondering how the perform?
Would you risk a nice expensive bottle in them?
Is there any other alternatives?
TIA
Popov

Hello

I still use the single bottle foam pack which I find highly safe and secure (provided its joined well in the middle).

There is a new red Australia Post pak which I've also used. It seems to me to be very secure, but its sure hard to open for the recipient!!

Popov wrote:Hi All,

I need to ship some wine to a friend and was wondering if anyone has any experience in the past?
I have seen the winepak's and was wondering how the perform?
Would you risk a nice expensive bottle in them?
Is there any other alternatives?
TIA
Popov

I have been told by the local bottleshop owner that the foam winepacks are excellent and incredibly protective for shipping wines. He said he has thrown one out of a 1st floor window and apparently the bottle inside was still intact and not broken!

Murray wrote a good article on this...I think it is on the www.torbwine.com website, well worth a read...click on "useful stuff" and its there in all its glory.

Something like this:

http://www.torbwine.com/rr/Moving%20Win ... 0Saga1.htm

Hi All,

Thanks for your responses especially Adam! (I thought Murray had written something on this but I did a search and nothing came up. I could not remember where I had seen it!)
Cheers
Popov

The foam winepaks from Australia Post are excellent.

Avoid at all costs the red ones unless you don't mind what condition the label arrives in. The red ones have sharp edges on the inside and can cause damage to the labels and sometimes to the capsules.

Popov;
Are you sending single or multiple bottles? <--- I really should read the title but what I said below does stand.
The old single packs are good. There is now a 2 pack and 3 pack available which are very good, around $3 each. I haven't had TNT break one yet, which is saying something.
As for 12 bottles you can buy the export cartons which are again very good, with no reported breakages with these as far as I know.
PM me if you need more info.

jezza wrote:Popov;
... you can buy the export cartons which

Where can you get the export cartons ? Do you mean the ones from Australia Post ?

In regards to WinePaks, as I said in the article on Torbwine, and also on Wine of the Week , avoid whenever possible.

The modular foam shippers I noted in the first part of the article are good, If you want to ship 12 bottles, just put some 'inside' components together. The picture shows it holding 6 botles.


The shipping franchise "Pack'n'Send" have a 12 bottle foam shipper in a cradboard outer, but it's limited to standard height and shaped bottles. Riesling bottles won't fit, and neither will fatter bottles.

markg wrote:Where can you get the export cartons ? Do you mean the ones from Australia Post ?

We get them from our carton supplier at about $20 a pop, the picture posted by Murray is what I'm talking about.
Email me if you want details.