how do you bring home wine when th drive home is 4 hours?

Question

Are there special tools for this? Perhaps a small refrigerator? A specially designed box? Just a plain old cooler with ice?

Answer 1

If you want wine to be at its best, let it rest and don't transport it unless it's in a corked bottle. You can drive it for four hours but know that it won't taste the same as before.

Answer 2

no real special attention needs to be taken like a fridge or anything. If you can get yourself from the winery a case/box that holds 12 bottles. put the wine in the box. Put the box in the cab of your car, where you sit, and cover with blankets, coats, etc. you should be good to go.

Do not put the wine in the trunk of your car. It is not as well insulated as the front part of the car. So if you have room put it up there. 4 hours is not really that far of a drive and i have done this many times going from the SAnta Barbara area back to san francisco. Stores keep their wine at room temp and unless you plan on getting out of the car for any extended period of time, it should be OK, just like you!

Answer 3

If it's already bottled then wrap the bottles in paper and stand them up in a box. If it's hot out then you probably shouldn't leave the wine in your trunk.
If you are buying wine direct from the producer and therefore have it in a demijohn then you may have problem. 1 - it may not taste the same when you take it home because (and this is true) some wines don't travel well. 2. If you have a small car then you may have to put it your trunk - just make sure you aren't traveling on an extremely hot day.

Answer 4

no problem, wine is driven to pretty much wherever it is consumed. Just pack it so it won't rattle around, get too hot, too cold and so on. Some wines, like frizante (sparkling wine but usually with a regular cork) should be kept on ice while traveling. Most just require a little care in packing. It is also best to let it stand for a few days after traveling before opening

Answer 5

Yes, I reccommend you opt for the 'specially designed box'.
Of course, special tools will be needed to get that wine safely home. Special wine-transport tools-nothing so pedestrian as 'small refrigerator' or 'plain old cooler'- geez.
It is very important to the wine to be treated to every luxury convenience you can possibly afford. Ill-treated wine may sometimes force its way up out of your throat, refusing to be swallowed, quaffed or sipped. Pamper that box of White Grenache, fluff up your MadDog, spoil varietals from Two-Buck Chuck until they attain the 'swirl-and-sniff' snobbery of wine costing three or even four dollars.

Kidding aside, if kept out of the direct sun, wine can travel 4 hours with no lasting ill effects-so long as it's not hellishly hot. If the cork begins to ease from the neck, it got pretty hot for awhile. Your situation shouldn't cause that.
As a rule of thumb, wines are thermally regulated just prior to serving. Optimum temps vary according to style from just off room temp for rich reds to chillingly frigid for crisp, sweeter generic blends, iced for Sangria punch and cocktail spritzers, warm for rice wines like sake and piping hot for mulled spice wine.
If your wine purchase is from the seller's coldbox, you should attempt to insulate enough so as to preserve some chill at its destination. Quality and longevity of wine is compromised over time by greatly fluctuating temperature extreems. Buy product off the warm shelf if available. Then after your drive time, pop it into a chiller/refrigerator for a cooldown just prior to corkage. Enjoy!

Answer 6

You don't have to go to such extremes in order to keep your wine cool. Most wineries now have a carrier that fits on the bottle just like those foam cylinders that keep your cola can cool.

Different wines have a specific temperature in which they will taste the best. Have someone at the winery school you on that and then you will know better what to do.

Salute!

Answer 7

simply ask urself this question. will i be drinking it when i get there? if the answer is yes then it will depend on if its a red or a white? white: chiller bags r good justslip in a little ice. red: will be the same answer as no i'm not going to drink it when i get home. wrap ur bottles in a sleeping bag.

Answer 8

if its a red, don't worry about it, they are to be served at room temp anyways, it its a white, just re-cork and toss it in the back seat (still counts as an open container). just put it in the fridge when you get home.

Answer 9

buy a bag of ice put wine in bag