Something to think about

[winoweenie]

Hi Twoi and welcome to the board. I live in Phoenix so can give you the routine followed by my local pusher. EVERY distributor here has an air-conditioned warehouse. All shipments of wine from Calif is shipped in refrigerated trucks and when the drivers are sleeping the reefers are running. The same is true of wine shipped from Bordeaux. The wines are shipped in refrigerated containers. The cost is about a buck to a buck and a half a case over regular LTL shipments so when we're talking about 2 to 600 buck a case cost wines the cost is negligable. Also all shipments from the distributor is made in Air-conditioned trucks in the early AM here in Phoenix to my local pusher. What it boils down to is that the chain knows the huge costs of replacing ruined wine and takes every precaution. WW