My boyfriend is going to Italy for a week next weekend. How many bottles of wine is he allowed to bring back? Does anyone know for sure what the laws are about bringing back things? Is there a quota of handbags too? haha :)

when my dad went to chile, he was told 2 cases...24 bottles. i think he had a lot more on order, so i dunno what the deal with it is. maybe its as much as you can fit in a carry-on?

I have friends that live there. I'll ask them to see if they know anything about that. :)

My boyfriend is going to Italy for a week next weekend. How many bottles of wine is he allowed to bring back? Does anyone know for sure what the laws are about bringing back things? Is there a quota of handbags too? haha :)

ship the hand bags.

beers :beer:

My boyfriend is going to Italy for a week next weekend. How many bottles of wine is he allowed to bring back? Does anyone know for sure what the laws are about bringing back things? Is there a quota of handbags too? haha :)
how old is he. if he is <21 i guarantee you that number is 0 and if customs opens his bags he will be arrested for smuggling.

generally though the amount you can bring back with you without declaration is less than $1000 worth. (thats any item)

Here ya go Morgan. Have a look-see:

http://www.cbp.gov/xp/cgov/travel/

Feras: He's 25...I think he'll be ok on that part! lol

And thanks Asmoran! I was looking for that site last night, but i failed.=(

Yeah, it was kinda hard to find. Almost everything has to do with business - there's just one little link to that page hidden amongst all the business-related stuff.

Unless he's trying to bring back multiple cases he'll be fine. When I go I usually bring a styrofoam case that's designed to hold 12 bottles of wine and then just check it like any other piece of luggage. Also keep in mind that if he doesn't know wine really well it may not even be worth it. The prices often aren't much better than here and most of the wine worth drinking can be bought in the US. The best way to get wine in europe at a cheaper price is to buy older vintages of wine that may not have been easy to find in the US.

For instance, I had a the luck of finding '78 La Chapelle at a tiny little Inn in Burgundy. The price on their list was 200 euros about $250 usd at the time. Knowing that this bottle was worth easily 3 times that I snapped up the 2 remaining bottles they had. So I got to drink a bottle there for $250, have one sitting in my cellar for a total of $500, and I can sell the other bottle off for $800 to $1000. Now this is one of those once in a lifetime finds but it's fairly common to find a bottle that might cost you $100 here for $50 or $60 in France or Italy. However, most of the time if you don't know what you're doing you'll end up lugging a bunch of wine around that you could have easily bought in the US for about the same price.

ill bring you wine morgan ;)