Originally Posted by Gaucho100K

Glad to hear all went well. In my experience, US customs isnt interested in the $$$ value of wine, they just want you to be straight with them and inform exactly how many bottles you have. As long as you dont play games, they almost never bother to write you up and charge the taxes & duties. Booze that is below the hard liquor level doesnt really have that much taxation potential anyways...

Just as an example, I have some serious "whino" clients that regularly take back up to 3 (yes, three) full cases of wine with them. Their batting average is over .950 of getting waived past the customs checkpoints... and even in the less than 5% cases when they do get written up, the amount charged is nominal.