Post by Ella
This flight from Mendoza (Mendoza being the wine making hub as you may recall) to Buenos Aires was full of people carrying their wine purchases. A woman with two big shopping bags, each with a box that probably held 6 bottles, struggled down the jetway. A guy with a case of 12 knocked people around as he made his way down the aisle with his precious cargo. Yep, here it is perfectly legal to carry up to a dozen bottles of wine as your designated carry on hand luggage.
Reminds me…in a lunch conversation with Patricia and Nick (the Brazilian/Australian couple we’d met on the Aconcagua trip)…they’d mentioned outfitting their suitcases with special wine inserts. They were going to bring 12 bottles in their checked luggage back to Brazil. And then they found out they were allowed to bring 16. They’d have to go shopping again they said.
That must be incredible wine to be worth lugging all that weight. Does it seem to you that it would be?
Well, um, no! But then it’s great wine and relatively speaking, really cheap.