Question Cold weather shipping

Well, it should be OK, but you might have precipitation which you can decant away. An involuntary cold stabilization so to speak.

The wine may have lost some acidity in losing tartrates, I guess, should there be lots of precipitation.

What do you mean by precipitation? i'm not following

I agree please explain?

TERPS,
I sure hope the cold weather doesn't cause a problem...I had 500 bottles leave last night going from Georgia to California and it was about 25 degrees here last night - ice wine anyone.

A meal is not a meal without wine; thus I skip breakfast.

I think he means the chemistry definition of precipitation... also called precipitate. Basically, it is similar to sediment. Am I right? Even w/ the cold weather I try to have all wine purchased elsewhere shipped via Overnight.

LJ

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I get quite a bit of mail order wine in the winter and so far no problems. I am a LOT more worried about summer shipments and usually delay some of those past when the winery wants to ship them. I look at winter as a great time to be shipping wine.

I usually let my winter wines sit in the shipping carton for a day before I open them. I also don't try wines recently shipped for at least two weeks.

I really worry about having a wine sit in my car when its 80 dgrees out and avoid that.

LiquidJoy65 is right. Precipitation in this sense is the chemistry term, precipitate. Chemicals that are dissolved in a liquid solidifying (precipitating). In wine, you call it sediment.

I would much prefer cold weather shipping than the heat.

Last Tuesday I received my first frozen shipment, a bottle of '01 Ramey Jericho Canyon. But I guess I have to expect that living in North Dakota.

'01 Ramey Jericho Canyon Winecicle
https://forums.winespectator.com/eve/forums?a=tpc&s=9306023451&f=3146091161&m=55060904&r=34160814#34160814

Fortunately I was at least able to enjoy it.

Chilly... Hey another North Dakotan!!! As far as i know there's just the two of us.

Right, sorry for that guys, LJ and MJS are correct. It didn't occur to me that in the context it could be understood as snow or rain...

What I meant was that in low temperateures particles could fall out, precipitate, from the wine. We're talking coloring matter and tartrate crystals. The latter one is potassiumbitartrate, which is a salt (not table salt, obviously, but salt as a chemical concept) of tartaric acid which is one of the acids in wine. (Beside lactic, citric and malic acid.)

It therefore stands to reason that acidity in the wine could diminish. I don't know if it does so noticeably.

Well since I got the bottles and they were in good shape and the wine was not frozen I think I should be fine. Thanks for the response.

RRW - Where are you at in ND?

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