FATJACK

It is too bad that the Original Poster was discouragee from bringing her preferred wine in their checked baggage on the plane and when boarding. Wine bottles travel exceptionally well in luggage. As I said before, I have never had any wine bottle break in ANY of my checked baggage, be it on airlines or cruise ships. In fact, once while traveling with several bottles in my checked baggage, Delta Airlines nearly destroyed my suitcase containing six bottles of wine. Delta replaced the suitcase, but all the wine bottles survived.

I have been bringing wine back (at least a case or more between my wife and I) from Europe on over seven trips in our checked luggage and have never lost a bottle. On our last cruise, a TA on Holland America out of Venice, I left the two cases of wine in their original packing crate and just slapped a HAL luggage tag on the boxes and they were delivered to our cabin.