I haven’t been back in a year so I can’t remember if there’s a “nothing to declare” line in the US customs area, but that’s probably your only hope of getting it though the airport. And if you get caught…well, i’d recommend not getting caught. I think the best idea is to declare it, and then hope they don’t care about your age. I’m guessing the others got caught by being asked by the passport control guy. I also believe he looks at your customs declarations form as well. Man, I hate those American customs dudes, they always give me a hard time. It’s easier to come to Europe for sure
Don’t you mean “figuratively”?
Anyway, that was my point above. Maybe Anything is also planning to bring in some La vache qui rit as well. If so, all those cows in nearby Wisconsin will indeed be laughing.
No. Hiding a bottle of wine that you are not legally allowed to posess in your baggage would be a pretty cut-and-dried example of smuggling… even if it isn’t exactly the same as stuffing a condom full of white powder where the sun doesn’t shine.
True, but I think that Quelquechose was asking for legal ways of getting the wine in. S/he doesn’t seem like the criminal type to me.
I think the real crime is going to all that trouble when you can get better vino from the Republic of California. (Look out, Arnold was resoundingly re-elected.) He not only will be back…he is back.
Oh, and this.
Note that the cotton was new and unbleached, and that the star was a manner of mocking Texas.
This is where to get your wine.
Don’t dis the non-California wines too much. It wasn’t too long ago that I had an Italian wine (God, I wish I could remember what it was) that actually made me like drinking wine. It was a little hole-in-the-wall (but quite nice) restaurant in the suburbs of Cleveland – a Pinot Nero (Negro) from Italy – that I had the first wine that I actually enjoyed. Yeah, I’ve had wine, and it was palatable, but man, this made me start seeking out other Pinot Noirs, and damn! I’m hooked. I’m a beer snob but not a wine snob, so I can’t recall specific brands and years, but I’ve had good ones from British Columbia (I’m working in Canada, after all), California, Italy, Spain, Argentina, and France. I had high hopes for the Ontario version, but neh. In any case, the California was good, but don’t dis the others.
From the John Cleese wine documentary thing – drink what you like.
You’re right, Balthisar. The point is not to say that any region is better than another. The point is just to say that no one region is necessarily the best. And I hope that quelquechose understands that none of my comments have been directed at him/her. I just like to play around with cultural cliches. And I truly think it’s a nice thing to do to try to bring in a nice wine to familiy and friends. Bonne chance, quelquechose, however you work this out. Just don’t rule out California when it comes to wine. And also, the second most powerful person in the world in January will become a San Franciscan.
Sorry. I can’t stop myself, can I.