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Sending wine from Italy to Spain?

I have to buy and send a good bottle of wine to a friend in Spain, from here in Italy.

I know absolutely nothing about the shipping part (the buying is pretty easy). In the United States, it can be tricky sending wine over borders -- I think I recall that it wasn't even necessarily legal in the old days, although I find it hard to believe that that would still be the case today.

So: does somebody know something about sending wine from Italy to Spain? Perhaps there are international shippers that somebody has used and liked?

Thanks for any inputs,

John

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JMF
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No problem, you can ship wine as if it were any merchandise. Use the post, they have special boxes for wine. I have never had problems.

Mike Tommasi, Six Fours, France email link

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Mike Tommasi

"JMF" wrote in news:5hPdd.68439$ snipped-for-privacy@news3.tin.it:

At the risk of starting one of our favorite agreement threads, US Law is still pretty much in the dark ages with regard to wine shipments, sorry I can't help onthe European issue.

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jcoulter

Thanks, sounds like it won't be a big hassle.

John

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JMF

Amazing ... so the U.S. still hasn't cleaned up its act in that area.

John

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JMF

Sadly, one only has to travel outside the U.S. (and I don't mean Canada, they're just as bad) to see how third-world-like we really are in *many* areas.

\/ (a once-content American citizen, until I visited Europe and Japan)

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Vincent

"JMF" skrev i melding news:OpRdd.69042$ snipped-for-privacy@news3.tin.it...

Both countries are in the EU - European Union, so you just mail your bottle, well packaged of course. Anders

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Anders Tørneskog
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Michael Pronay

Now now Michael, you are not taking the proverbial p**s out of our transAtlantic cousins are you?

st.h

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st.helier

The federal government ceded responsibility for managing the distribution and sale of alcoholic beverages to the states some 70 years ago. As a result, we have a hodge-podge of varying and conflicting laws regulating it. The feds have neither a mandate nor motivation to clean it up. We do actually derive some benefits from the tension between the feds and states, but as a wine-lover this is certainly not one of them!

Regards, Dean

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DPM

;-)

M.

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Michael Pronay

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