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[Lela]

Hello,I admit it,I'm a complete novice when it come to wines.I am sending a lobster dinner,complete with cheesecake to friends of mine in the UK as a housewarming gift.I would like to also include a nice wine for their meal.I would appreciate any and all suggestions as to which wine I should send to them.Thank-You for the help...Lela

[Kcwhippet]

Well, a nice buttery Chardonnay works very well wich the rich lobster meat. However, what with import/export restrictions and customs laws, I'd question how you would get the wine to them. The transport of alcoholic beverages is heavily regulated. You don't say how you plan to send the meal and the wine, but it better not be through the USPS, because it's a violation of federal law. Perhaps you might be better off sugesting the wine that would go well with the lobster and they could buy it themselves. Then you could reimburse them some way for the cost.

[mrdutton]

I mail (USPS) wine in single bottle containers as gifts to various people....... I get wine mailed (USPS) to me as a gift from various people.

Of course I also ship wine UPS and FED-EX and receive some that way also.

Against federal law? Can you cite that for me?

I've shipped alcohol all around the world via private shippers funded by tax dollars (military family shipments). A long time ago it was against policy to ship alcohol but that changed and now it is not against DOD policy as long as the bottles are still sealed.

I still have unopened bottles of hard liquor that were bought in Japan on base, shipped to Charleston, then on to Rhode Island and then on to Virginia.

What a miscreant I must be........

[winoweenie]

Holy Violator There MisserD. I'm shocked you would flaunt your States Laws by breaking them willy-nelly. I'm taken aback, afront and asideways. Slowly but surely we're getting the states to back down on this restraint of trade. WW [img]http://www.wines.com/ubb2/biggrin.gif[/img]