bottle shock

[Trubador]

Does the act of traveling several hours in a car re-introduce bottle shock to a wine?

 

[Wade E]

I gues that would depend on how it was handled. If it was a nice easy highway ride like I had from Masta's house to mine and you are not driving in a bumpy pick up truck then I would say it was fine. Another thing to be cosidered is in some areas there might be a big altitude change and that would ceate havoc on the wine most likely.

 

[Waldo]

I gues that would depend on how it was handled. If it was a nice easy highway ride like I had from Masta's house to mine and you are not driving in a bumpy pick up truck then I would say it was fine.

Wade !!! he was asking about "bottle shock" not "belly shock"
What you had in your stomach doesnt count

 

[PolishWineP]

I've toted a lot of wines around and never felt they suffered all all from bottle shock. I honestly don't much believethat carrying a wine from 1 place to the next does it any harm. Edited by: PolishWineP

 

[JWMINNESOTA]

Unless they were put through some serious extremes in temp, (like getting really hot in a trunk), don't think there is allot to worry about there. I just carried a couple cases to Wisconsin from Minnesota this weekend, either there was no problem, or after the first couple of bottles we couldn't tell!