The trials of wine in a suit case from last night's trip Birmingham - Paris - Beirut. (Photo of the survivors) The wife packs better than me. As you can see in the photo I managed to save from left to right a General, a Lieutenant General, a Brigadier, 4 captains, 2 Lieutenants, one second Lieutenants, 2 injured Lieutenants and one dead one!.
If the wife packed all would have been saved. But she was in this case the recipient and not the sender of these Chablis with hopes for enjoyable drinking in the coming weeks.
One usual but strong card board box in one suitcase although surrounded with fabric samples it's corner got burst may be in the rough handling at CDG. The spirits where in the other case curtesy Silver Flying Blue Priority (2 suitcases allowed).
In other trips all survive without any casualties. The right sort of suitcase to carry wine in is always a challenge for me when buying in department stores (This time T K Max won my business1)
I am sure for many forumites who like to carry wines across the world (Mahmoud Ali - comes to mind when double handling in Istanbul on he way to Canada - a challenge Mahmoud? May be Tom too in his world wide trips).