 So you've had that wonderful wine trip. Now, how are you going to get all that wine that you bought home? I'm going to show you how to pack some wine in this video. Welcome back to Exotic Wine Travel. I am your host, Matthew Horkey. So today we're going to talk about packing wine and it's something that we live on a daily basis because Serene and I, we travel full-time for wine. We mostly backpack. We have some luggage as well. So we're always carrying wine because we're always going from country to country. We like to bring new different styles of wine to have with people in the next country. We're going to, especially if we're with wine writers, other critics. It's just something fun to do and I've learned some tricks along the way. I've been doing this for about three years now. It's not always comfortable. Sometimes it's a pain in the butt, but we get around it. So I'm going to show you a couple of options, some things that we have done. We have also taken wine from all of our overseas trips into my cellar in the US. Sometimes we've come in with 15 up to 36 bottles of wine. I'm going to show who we've done some crazy stuff since we are on a budget. So I'm going to show you some things to do. If you're on a budget, the easiest thing obviously to do is to wrap the wine in clothes. Make sure you pack it really tightly in a suitcase so it's not swinging around. When we first started traveling, we were just traveling with a backpack and then sending some boxes back and then we eventually purchased a hard shell carry-on that has been extremely useful. We would wrap the bottles in clothes or wrap cardboard around the bottles and then pack them until we found out about this company, Lausanne. Now we have some wine sleeves. We got these from Lausanne. If you want to check out some of their products that we have, I will put a discount code in the description box just to let you know. If you do choose to purchase these from us, from that discount code, we do get affiliate commissions. So take it for what's worth. I do like these a lot. Yeah, these are fantastic. Another way to do it is we ask producers if we buy a case or more for one of their shipping boxes and it's cardboard box with Styrofoam inserts. Those work very well. The only problem is they're bulky, really bulky. If you have 12 bottles, it will be under the limit for international check-in luggage. So it's something worth checking out. Another option that we have just picked up or learned is we got a package from Lausanne, their Wine Check Elite. It's a beautiful roll-on luggage. It has a Styrofoam insert to put six bottles in or you can take the Styrofoam insert out and put 12 bottles in the bag that can be used to carry on for tastings, whatever, but it can also be used to be checked on. So I'm going to use all three of these methods and we're going to take bottles of wine from Zagreb, Croatia to Detroit, Michigan and I'm going to show you what it looks like when we get there. Back from, we went, we made a connecting fight from Zagreb to Paris to Detroit, Michigan. So it took an entire day about 18 hours of traveling with all three of those methods that I talked about and you can obviously see which ones took a little bit more time, which won't. So the first method using the box, using the box that you ask wineries for, works out nice. As you can see, I had to wrap it up a lot. It got really banged up and also it took a long time to unpack but the wines came out perfect. So that's a cheap on the budget option if you're traveling with wine. Just know that it's not the most convenient, right? Because you have a big, huge bulky thing. Especially when you have a box, I mean, you need to look for wrapped servers or get it wrapped up before you get to the airport. So the, but the 12 bottles will make it under 23 kilos. You check baggage log in. So that's a good cheap option. The other option is wrapping it up in the hard shell suitcase, which we did. I actually like using these sleeves that Lazen gave us a lot better than wrapping them up in cardboard or wrapping them up and stuff. And surprisingly, you know, this was my favorite one at first. This is the, the Botolo Botolo bag compared to this one. Sometimes I don't like the stickiness because it wears out, but they're still useful. I like this because you can wrap it up. And you know what? I hated this Vin bouquet bag. We didn't use it at all. But it worked out really nice for the Magnum bottle and I blew it up and I had cushion. So, okay, I have a couple of these. Check it out. And then, you know what I was most impressed with? I thought the wine check elite here would not make it through checked luggage connected flight. I thought it would get ripped to torn the shred. It still looks new. It looks brand new. So this is convenient option. The cool thing about Lazen is that they send, they send stuff directly to your hotel if you're in Europe and then you can check it back to U.S. or Asia wherever you're going. I will put the affiliate link up on the screen right now. We, we do get a small commission if you do choose to use it. So if you choose to use it, just know that it would help us out a lot. Or you can go with the budget options, which are fine too if you have a little bit more time. Anything else you want to add on packing wine? There will be all. Because we go through it all. We go through. Yeah. I mean, if you're always traveling for wine, it's always important to just figure out the option or the solution and stick with it because you're going to bump into the same circumstance or situation all the time. So I'm going to be carrying these things around a lot. So guys, if you like this video, please subscribe to our YouTube channel, Exotic Wine Travel. 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