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What's too cold for shipping?

I am receiving a shipment of futures from the Oregon Pinot Noir Club today. It is travelling through the high country, and we are in the deep freeze, after our first winter storm dumped two feet of snow last week. If the wine does not freeze (liquid temperature in the teens), is there any harm to my wine? The club (Robert Wolfe, resident) promises to replace if the wine breaks.

Most stores call or email before they ship, but this one looks at (inaccurate) weather reports and makes a unilateral decision. Nice outfit other than their shipping policy.

Tom Schellberg

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Xyzsch
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I agree with Dale. Worry more about high temperatures. Unless the truck gets stuck overnight in a snow storm, I doubt you have to worry. When the wines arrive, inspect the bottles, especially if any corks/capsules show any sign of bulging up above the rim.

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Ken Sternberg

The UPS man just delivered the wine (7 PM MST).They were probably backed up due to the snow. It's pretty cold, but the wine did not freeze.

According to UPS tracking data, the wine arrived in the Casper warehouse last night at 11:30. It was -5 F, and was "checked in" by 3:00 AM. Apparenly, it was on the truck most of the day. Today it got up to 30 F. I'm just glad it's in my possesion.

I guess I am already a little peaved. Last January, they held up shipments when the local temperature was in the 50s, because it was cold in Chicago.Yet they shipped during a March blizzard. My wine arrived the day after the roads opened up. Most roads wehad been closed for two days. Maybe if he looked at a weather reporting station closer than Denver before making shipping decisions, this would not happen.

Tom Schellberg

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Xyzsch

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