Posted by
penghan
16 yrs ago
Hi,
I am relocating from Australia to HK, and was thinking of bringing my wine / champagne.
Does anyone know if any duties are applicable? My movers cant seem to give me a straight answer.
Thakns
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Ed
16 yrs ago
Give a call to Santa Fe - they have relocation experts who should be able to advise http://www.asiaxpat.com/movingquote/
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Ahkam
16 yrs ago
If you use normal shipper you can expect your wine to be handle like normal goods. What is that mean?
The storage temperature can get up to 50 degree C during sailing across the sea and during trucking at the seaport terminal for custom declaration.
I think from Australia to HKG, the transhipment time period is about 2 weeks. You can take a guess what that means to your wine taste when your bottle wine are under such storage temperature for 2 weeks.
If you have 20 to 50 bottles you probably can store them at home but do consider the possibility when your wine chiller die or your building went out of electricity for half a day.
If you consider using independent wine storage house (I checked last year) seems like all workers on the floor can't speak English and don't know anything about wine. I have a feelings that they may mess up which bottle is owned by who.
Just my 2 cents thinking...
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A friend of mine sent me a dozen bottles of wine from Oz as a present a few years ago. When they arrived, they were vinegar.
I agree with Akham. High temperatures for a couple of weeks will ruin good wine. You might as well sell/drink/give away your cellar and use the money to buy good wine in Hong Kong. Lots of good wine to buy.
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So how do all the many, many bottles of Aussie wines on sale in Hong Kong stores survive the journey? Air freight is surely too expensive; do they have their own special heat/humidity controlled sections in container ships?
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I assume they use refrigerated containers. High humidity is not that important for the contents but probably not so good for boxes and labels. In any case if the contents are cooled humidity is kept in check as a by-product of the process.
The climate control is not on the ship, per se. It is a function of the refrigerated container. These special containers need to plug into ship power so obviously you can't stack them just anywhere. There are also dry ice based cooling systems, where the ice melts slowly, keeping contents cool for up to a month.
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190k
16 yrs ago
I had three cases sent up from S'pore a couple of years ago, used a named shipper ( something the queen puts on her head) and the goods arrived no problems in less than a week justy make sure you declare that they are for personal consumption as there are licensing regulations for dealers I believe.
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