shipping french wine to france?

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maureen

maureen nelson
Who knows whether French law would permit me (or more likely a retailer) to ship French wine to someone in France? I know it sounds goofy, but I need to do it and although Fed Ex has info about the paperwork Fed Ex requires, I've not been able to find out whether there are restrictions on how much (i'd like to send a case), whether there is a tariff and if so does it matter if the wines are French - and are for personal use?

Any ideas? Thanks
 
Same answer as on WB. Put it in a wine check. I've never even been asked a question by a customs agent coming into France. And, although I've only ever shipped one bottle into France, I always ship the wine check.
 
Granted, somewhat dated info here but when I brought shippers over empty or mostly empty - they never seemed to make the connection at CDG or LHR or wherever, while the actual luggage would. They would arrive eventually, but not in the first day or two. If I had packed expensive wine in the shipper I would have been very concerned.
 
originally posted by Jonathan Loesberg:
Same answer as on WB. Put it in a wine check. I've never even been asked a question by a customs agent coming into France. And, although I've only ever shipped one bottle into France, I always ship the wine check.
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Same response as on WB - I don't want to have to deal with a 35 pound box of wine - even one on wheels - when I'm flying into Lyon, taking a cab to the train station, and then taking the train to Beaune because I will have other luggage that I'm schlepping. If I can avoid it by shipping, I'll do that - even though it would cost me more than checking it as luggage (which would cost me nothing).

So SFJoe - what about São Paulo?
 
I had a complicated trip last year where I flew into CDG, showered at the Sheraton, flew to Geneva, met the clients, drove them to the meeting in Verbier, and then we were to take the TGV to Paris.

I brought some decent wine to share with them on the TGV.

My shipper didn't arrive. They said, oh, it caught the next plane. I said, send it along to my hotel.

I got into the hotel late that evening, it hadn't arrived. I called the next AM, AA said, "oh, it went to São Paulo."

More transpired, but the battered box was finally waiting for me at checkin in CDG when I arrived to fly home two days later.

Too bad about the Fourrier.

OTOH, I've had other trips where it all worked out fine.
 
When I used to just ship the box with the styrofoam in it, it frequently went missing. It didn't look like luggage to them, I think, and that led to screw-ups. The wine check looks like luggage and it hasn't gone missing, yet. I have also only had luggage go wandering off going into France, never coming back, though that may be a statistical anomaly.
 
I had the opposite problem on my last trip to France. There were four of us, and only our empty shippers made it on our 7:30 am flight from CDG to Lyon. The rest of our luggage was delivered after midnight. I now always pack the essentials in my carry-on.
 
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