Jet Bag Defeats AA at WBC11

I do a lot of traveling for wine.  Just the last 6 months has seen me pop up in New York twice and Charlottesville once.  Strangely enough, this means that I tend to accumulate a fair amount of wine during my travels (I know, cue the weeping and lamentations).  This does tend to present a Conundrum, however.  When one needs to fly these days, it tends to be very difficult to hide 750 mL of glass-encased liquid.

OK, but that’s fine, right?  I’ll just check my baggage with the bottle of red stashed inside…surrounded by all of my favorite clothes because I just went to NYC for the first time.  Hmm…not a recipe for success, especially as I watched the suplex being applied to my suitcase out on the tarmac.  Cue: the Jet Bag (Twitter).

I received a couple sample Jet Bags in the mail just under four months ago, from Spread the News PR.  I had planned to write a more extended article about this great product and was waiting for the perfect time to test out the Jet Bags.  Along comes procrastination WBC11 and I realize, bingo!  I always get a tons of vino at those awesome conferences, let’s bring them on the trip!  There’s nothing like a real life test scenario to well, realistically test things out.  Coming back, exhausted, from Virginia, I was subjected to American Airlines definition of flight-canceling weather at O’Hare in Chicago.  Never mind that no other airline appeared to be even delayed and my (slightly) discounted hotel for the few hours of no sleep night was mystified in regards to the supposed weather conditions (the Hyatt Regency O’Hare (Twitter) ROCKED, btw).  All this means is that my poor luggage was beat up much more than normal and most likely sweltering all night out in a non-temperature controlled warehouse somewhere.

All that said, after I got home for work and could unpack, I discovered that my fantastic sample of 2005 Tabarrini Montefalco Colle Grimaldesco Montefalco Sagrantino DOCG (garnering an OldWorldWK badge) Italian red was perfectly safe and insulated.  Very impressive.  And it’s actually the simplicity of this wine product that allows me to finish this article in way under 500 words.

Open the bag, place the bottle inside the absorbent, insulated bag, close the Ziploc and place it in your luggage.  Done.

I couldn’t be more pleased and thrilled to say that they’re also reusable.  Starting at $15 for 3, they throw down some good value. A complete win!  Check out their video of a Jet Bag in action.  Cheers!

 

Vinopanion: Ward Kadel - @drXeNo

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Ward Kadel - @drXeNo is the founder of Vinopanion wine blog, former West Coast Ambassador & Staff Blogger for WineLog.net and former Le Wine Buff for Bordeaux.com (CIVB). He will try any and all wines and tends to write about the parts of his life that include wine...like virtually all of it! He and his wife grew up in Napa and Sonoma and they still live in the Napa Valley. Check out the wines he's recommended with his WKBadges. Follow him on Twitter, Instagram and Like #Vinopanion on Facebook. Contact him: "Ward at WineLog.net". Ward happily accepts samples but does not guarantee a review, positive or negative.

4 Comments

  1. Joe
    August 3, 2011

    I just wrap mine in clothes and hope for the best…

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  2. Marco Cucco
    August 3, 2011

    Ward,

    Thanks for the kudos!!

    I just wanted to let you know that, not only your Tabarrini traveled across the US safely, but it did it inside a biodegradable bag made in the US.

    Salute a te ed ai tuoi lettori,

    Marco

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  3. vintwined
    August 3, 2011

    Noted! Gotta get a few as I left my wine samples from WBC at the hotel, for fear of a wine-explosion-disaster.

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  4. Ward Kadel - @drXeNo
    August 4, 2011

    @Joe: I’ve done that a lot too, but as you may have noticed at WBC11, I have very few pieces of nice clothing…all of which were in that suitcase. 😉

    @Marco: Thank you for the samples and those tidbits of further info are very cool.

    @Erin: Bummer, that’s what Babs did, too! :-/

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