When deciding whether you can safely ship wine, consider some of these factors:
- How close is the recipient to you?
- What is the high temperature of the destination?
- What are the temperatures on the delivery path?
- What time does UPS/FedEx pick up from you?
- How long will the wine be in transit?
- What shipping method will you use (Ground, 2nd Day Air, Overnight, Priority Overnight)?
- What day of the week are you shipping (is it going over a weekend)?
- Are you using cold packaging?
- What bottle sizes are you shipping?
- Is the wine going to a residence, business, or UPS/FedEx center (deliveries tend to go to the latter two earlier in the day)?
- Will the recipient, so please help me god, be available for the first delivery attempt?
If you’re shipping wine to a business address a state over and are using Priority Overnight and cold packs, your wine might easily survive the 95˚ temperatures.
If you’re sending wine via Ground to the other side of the country in pulp over a weekend and the recipient doesn’t get it until the third attempt, it might get compromised at 72˚- It really just depends.
As most of us ship primarily via Ground, a good rule of thumb is if you expect the wine to spend more than a day in 75Ëš temperatures, you probably want to start investigating other options (cold packaging, cold-chain, 2nd Day Air).
Exciting PSA: We’ll resume shipping in October 2026!
All Farmhouse Vineyards orders are received and processed daily. To help protect your wine from weekend delays and extended time in transit, shipments leave via UPS every Tuesday by 12:00 p.m. Central Time. This schedule allows us to deliver each order with the care and service it deserves.
