Shipping Wine Kits During Hot Summer Months

This often puzzles me also. I order a lot online, but stop on perishables once it's over 85 - as I've had melted chocolates, hot vitamins, etc. Seems not good. these 100+ days can't be good for anything in the back of a truck sitting, even for only hours. I asked the local UPS delivery guy how hot it get in the back of his truck - he actually had a thermometer and it read 140 during our 107 two days ago. (North Carolina). So it's not boiling, but it's hot. I tried to find answers with WinExpert and Google, but never found a good answer.

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John:

I don't know about wine companies not shipping in the heat, after all I'm in Canada where it snows year round (grin). But supplies to liquor stores are shipped every week here in BC, and we've had some

Steve

Dave,

I've read that concentrates are produced by heating the wine to evaporate the water and some juices are pasteurized and this involves heat. So, on one hand it seems as though temperature isn't that important but still I wonder......

It would be the yeast and PE that I would worry about. IIRC the enzyme gets de-natured at ~112F, and the yeast would start to die in that range too.