Liquid logistics: The fine art of wine transport

Harder to sneak into a show in your backpack though

Imagine trying to find and get the spigot out of a shipping container.

At least within the US, individual to individual wine shipping is basically impossible without breaking some laws and/or regulations. Typically, you need to be a licensed retailer or producer (winery), and the rules vary depending on the state the recipient is in. Certainly people do it (often claiming it's "olive oil" or similar), but it's still not easy to do it legitimately as an individual. Even as a retailer or producer (which might be what you were trying to do) it varies a lot by state, and some states are very restrictive.

Most wine is stores, or transported in this way at some point in its life. Most blends are blends from multiple vineyards, and are transported in big metal tanker trucks with plastic lining. Some are transported in big 500 gallon plastic totes. In my limited knowledge, only pretty high end wines are made by only ever touching oak barrels and glass bottles.

The plastic should not impart any taste directly, but it would expose the wine to oxygen. This is a factor that bulk producers take into account when formulating their wines.

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