Rules on Transporting Wine out of EZE to the USA
Jul 29, 2012 | 12:04 am
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Aug 11, 2012 | 1:29 pm
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Rules aside.... whats important is how this is enforced.
In practice, if you dont have more than 24 bottles and if you declare every single one, I know from experience that you will have more than 95% chance of getting waived.... US customs does not give a hoot about wine.
In practice, if you dont have more than 24 bottles and if you declare every single one, I know from experience that you will have more than 95% chance of getting waived.... US customs does not give a hoot about wine.
Dec 11, 2012 | 9:56 am
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I recently flew back from EZE to Minneapolis through Atlanta on Delta airlines with wine checked as baggage. Terrior Fine Wines (See 'Gaucho 100K' posts) set me up with great selections that were carefully packed and made the 5000 mile journey without incident. Thank you Alex!
Dec 11, 2012 | 6:44 pm
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A caveat here - I don't know if it would affect too many EZE-departing pax, but if SLC is your first port of entry into the USA, your booze may be seized, as having violated Utah law.
Dec 12, 2012 | 3:04 am
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Does Salt Lake City even get direct flights from anything other than regional flights...?
Jan 10, 2014 | 2:33 pm
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Just got back from a 2 week trip down to BA. Unlike my previous adventures with customs documented here, customs in MIA was painless with 2 cases of delicious wine we got from Gaucho100k. Unlike our last adventure with the Global Entry machines, when you select the box saying you are over the duty limits, the slip does not print an "X", it prints an "O". You proceed to customs like normal and then disclose whatever it is that is over limit to the customs agent at the exit. In our case, we told him we had 2 cases of wine and he said "OK, Welcome to the US." That was it. Painless. No duty owed. Very happy to see that Global Entry has added the new "O" on the slips.
Jan 23, 2014 | 2:04 am
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Excited for my upcoming visit- not flying DL in biz so can't take my record 41 bottles back myself (
) but will be exciting. Contemplating bringing down a shipper box myself but might be too much to lug around. Return will be a bit more 
as I have an overnight in LIM, 25 hours in MEX, and stops in LAX and SEA. Oh and 2 PNR's too...yay.But still a month to go.
Oh and no issues with duty entering the US of A (knocks on wood)
Jan 23, 2014 | 12:49 pm
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Excited for my upcoming visit- not flying DL in biz so can't take my record 41 bottles back myself () but will be exciting. Contemplating bringing down a shipper box myself but might be too much to lug around. Return will be a bit more as I have an overnight in LIM, 25 hours in MEX, and stops in LAX and SEA. Oh and 2 PNR's too...yay.
) but will be exciting. Contemplating bringing down a shipper box myself but might be too much to lug around. Return will be a bit more as I have an overnight in LIM, 25 hours in MEX, and stops in LAX and SEA. Oh and 2 PNR's too...yay.
Jan 24, 2014 | 11:48 am
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As for airport transfers and currency exchange, I made the mistake of overpaying for a private car from EZE to downtown last time (not grossly, just by about 100 pesos or so). My plan is to exchange just enough at the airport to pay for a taxi from the far taxi stand (not the one inside the terminal) to town and then go exchange more money on Calle Florida (where I got 9.375 when it was trading at 9.8 last September).
Feb 3, 2014 | 5:32 pm
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The current Peso devaluation has opened up a great window of opportunity to get you favorite Malbecs at rock bottom prices.......
Feb 4, 2014 | 12:16 pm
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Feb 4, 2014 | 1:03 pm
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I know this is old post, but I just came back 3 days ago with 12 bottles of wine (in a wine bottle shipper box) without any issue at MIA, but of course, I have to spend an extra 20 minutes waiting for my bags (the go trough x-ray before arriving at the bell), plus another 20 minutes to "recheck" my box at customs, they will send you to the yellow dots when they see you with any kind of box.
May 13, 2016 | 6:15 am
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As an update, Delta which was historically the only US airline operating out of EZE that would have on & off issues with full cases of wine seems to have gotten its act together. Ive had a good number of US based clients of mine fly out on DL over the past few months and they have all gotten zero issues from the Delta check-in counter. As long as the wine is properly packed (ie. Styrofoam boxes), you will have zero issues.
United and American have a history of being very "wine friendly" here at EZE, so its business as usual for them.
United and American have a history of being very "wine friendly" here at EZE, so its business as usual for them.