Can you ship wine home from Epcot?

[mla973]

I apologize if this is not the correct place to post, but does anyone know if you can ship wine from Epcot home (we're in Michigan)? I'd like to purchase some wine from Frane or Canada for my mother for Christmas, but don't want to worry about carrying it around. (I realize I can send back to the room through the package pick-up system - if possible with wine - but I thought it might be easier just to ship it.)

 

[AKV707]

The shops at Epcot will not ship wine. We asked once.

 

[TLSnell1981]

I believe YOU can ship it to yourself. The shops can not do it. Something about distribution laws and each state having different laws.

 

[Ksp]

We ran into that problem at Epcot at well; they won't ship it.
I did find that I also couldn't use UPS to ship my wine home - they won't send it across state lines. I was told by the package company (I went to one of those quick ship stores) that only those who are licensed to send wine may do so -he mentioned vineyards as people who could ship lawfully. (I suppose you could always not tell them what's in the box?? Not sure that would be the best idea, though)
It did make getting the wine home a bit difficult - especially since we bought it right after the No Liquids ruling for air travel came into being. We wound up checking it into luggage for our flight home and worrying the whole trip that our bag had gotten bounced around and wine was spilling everywhere. Thankfully, we packed it very well and it arrived back home with us safely.

 

[RosiePosie35]

If you know you will be bringing wine home you could try this. We brought wine with us to Disney this past September. Don't like paying the disney up charge so we thought we would save a few dollars.

I had a cheap rubbermade box that I placed four bottles of wine in. I wrapped each bottle in a sock and filled any space with packing peanuts. Just in case I wrapped the lip of the lid with duct tape. This box was just placed in a suitcase surronded by clothing.

All arrived in my room without any breakage or leakage. You could just bring the packing items with you to use when you leave.

This won't work in your reverse situation, but the rubbermaid box then worked great for packing fragile purchased items for the flight home.

 

[Pakey]

It is against the law to ship alcohol across state lines unless you are an authorized merchant and even then, not all states allow it.

We have purchased wine packaging from Unline. We have the styrofoam holders for wine bottles that are used by wineries to box and ship wine and we use those without the box--held together with packaging tape and then wrapped in heavy duty plastic and place those in a suitcase with towels, etc. We've never had any problems but I wouldn't place it in a suitcase with clothing, just to be safe. The styrofoam sets we have hold two bottles of wine each.

 

[mla973]

Thanks for the info. That confirms what I was thinking. I'm familiar with uline, so maybe I'll check that out. Perhaps my mom will get wine accessories instead. I'm worried about breakage/spillage in a suitcase.

 

[crisi]

Most of the wine available at Epcot can be found or ordered locally - unless Michigan has strange state owned liquor stores that won't special order (always possible given different states goofy liquor laws).

They won't ship to the resort either, but you can have it sent to the front of the park.

 

[mikesmom]

I'm not sure about Michigan, but our state sure has those goofy laws - and only a couple of wholesalers who control what wineries can be ordered from by the stores, to boot. We have been immensely frustrated by the whole situation. We've come back from F&W to find we can't get many of the wines we "discovered" and enjoyed. You can't legally ship here. If you ship to yourself and it is discovered, UPS is required to open the shipment and dump all the wine (really! verified both by UPS folks here in Oklahoma and my son who worked the holiday shifts while he was in college). We have gone to ridiculous lengths having wine shipped to relatives in Texas, or tracking down wine when traveling in other states on business. Technically, you can't even drive a case of wine across the state line that you purchased in another state, although that is a LOT harder to catch.