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Originally Posted by Skip
If you move any alcohol across state lines without a license, you have technically committed a crime. If you live in Florida and your closest liquor store is in Georgia, you can't buy it there and bring it home.
UPS does not have licenses to ship alcohol (and will not accept it) but FedEx can tell you the names of private pack and ship businesses that have licenses to ship out of Ohio (a wine producing state). They are far a few between however. FedEx will transport alcohol if shipped by a licensed shipper. Luckily Florida is a wine import friendly state, so shipping to Florida is not banned. An adult must sign for the shipment when delivered.
If you enter Florida in a truck or camper, you must stop at the Agricultural Inspection Station at the border (Interstate only). There, they can ask to see your cargo. If they notice alcohol while looking to plants and fruit, you're busted.
I'm betting the cost to ship your wine is more than the wine is worth (no offense). Perhaps the bottles will make better "Nice To Know You" gifts for your Ohio friends and start making a new batch from supplies bought in the wine shops in Orlando.
Hope your varietals include Red Zins.
Skip
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Ouchy! I didn't notice your post when I made my last one! Looks like I was just determined to get busted! OK. OK. It all goes. Legally up here in Ohio. The good, the bad and the, er, homemade!
We don't plan to make any more in FL for reasons previously discussed. So, direct me to the nearest wine purveyor and let me stay out of jail.
BTW, thanks for the wise advice.