travelling with wine

You shouldn't have any problem with one bottle. Just don't try to carry-on a corkscrew.

Thanks. I can check the corkscrew, correct?

You can put the corkscrew in a bag you then check. Sometimes, I mail a corkscrew to my hotel just to be sure I'll have one.

What hotel (worth staying at) doesn't have a corkscrew? :)

Jose

Good point. Then again, he is going to Las Vegas. Do they drink in that city?

Actually, you can put a corkscrew in carry-on luggage. Check out the TSA website for a list of prohibited/allowed items. I believe the website is

Gary

Eric,

As others have said, wine shouldn't be a problem in small, carry-on quantities, so long as you don't open a bottle on the plane - chew through the capsule and cork?

In pre-9-11 days, I'd take two styro-shippers empty to SF and fill them, then check them as luggage. I have NOT done this since 9-11, but doubt there would be a problem. When checked, I'd just declare them as wine.

As for the opener(s), I travel with three different models in my checked luggage, plus a Vacu-vin pump and about six stoppers. This allows me to open almost every type of bottle/cork. No problems, local, national, international, as of last week. Now, that doesn't guarantee that next week I won't get called out for having "dangerous weapons" in my checked luggage!

Only possible problem might be US state laws, i.e. Nevada, however, any state that has legalized prostutition, should not flench at a few personal bottles of wine. If you plan on taking them to a restaurant during your stay, do check first as for corkage. Don't know about NV, but in AZ and, as I recently found out, MS, state laws can preclude corkage, for ANY fee.

Enjoy, Hunt

I still do that (though I skip the styro and just pack them in a regular

Works like a charm.

Jose

I had wine in cardboard boxes I took home to CA from CO. The airline told me I had to take them as carry-on, but otherwise I had no problems.

Dimitri

I brought 3 bottles back from a trip from Nova Scotia to Ontario last month in my carry on. They pulled out each botle to make sure it was really wine and put the explosive "sniffer" to each bottle. Only in Canada you say?!

Happy anniversary!

Did the dog give the wines a rating - 3 paw taps for excellent, 2 for just OK, etc. ? Actually, I can't blame the security forces for wanting to examime the wine bottles, so long as they allow them through, when they pass the test.

Hunt

Thanks to all for the advise and the laughs.

I'm not sure what the offical rules are, but even if a corkscrew is permitted, it's possible that an inspector might think it's not and take it away from you. I had a corkscrew in my carry-on luggage taken away from me a couple of years ago (the rules might have changed since then, though).

And the TSA rules only apply to flights originating in the USA.

Bizarre really that you are allowed to take bottles onboard. A broken bottle makes an excellent weapon.

The rules *did* change a couple of years ago, Ken. But, I agree with you that it's better safe than sorry, especially as you aren't permitted to *use* the corkscrew on the plane.

Mark Lipton

I never thought of that, but that's an excellent point!

In my instance I wasn't very sorry . They wanted to take it and give it back to me when the flight arrived, but rather than bother collecting it, I told them just to keep it or throw it away. It was a cheap waiter's corksrew--maybe worth $2-3.

Perhaps 25 years ago I read that it was permissable to bring your own wine onto a plane, as long as you didn't serve yourself, but asked the flight attendant to do it (the rules have probably changed on this too). So I brought a bottle and carried a corkscrew. Being a law-abiding citizen, when dinner was served, I gave the bottle and the corkscrew to the flight attendant and asked her to open it.

She gave it back to me, saying, in a disgusted tone of voice, "open it yourself!"

So I did.

What are they gonna do, forbid you to take rocks on board, too? I don't think too many people are concerned about wine-bottle wielding terrorists. They've got their forks from the in-flight meal! :)

Dimitri

There aren't many in-flight meals these days. And when there are, the forks are plastic.