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Grande 12-Bottle Wine Suitcase
The 12-bottle wine suitcase that flies your tasting-room haul home intact.
By VinGardeValise · $369.95 · Photography, see credits
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The VinGardeValise Grande 12 is a hard-shell rolling suitcase built around one job: getting twelve 750 ml bottles through an airport intact. A proprietary compound-material shell lined with closed-cell foam, asymmetrical Hinomoto wheels, and a flush-mounted TSA-compliant lock make it equal parts luggage and wine vault.
The patented deep-foam inserts lift out, so the case converts to ordinary luggage for the trip home, and specialty inserts accommodate magnums and oversize formats. At 13.5 pounds empty it stays under the 50-pound checked-bag limit even fully loaded, and it earned the Wall Street Journal's nod as Best Wine Travel Solution.
Why it belongs
Every Napa visitor faces the same end-of-trip math: ship the wine or carry it. The Grande 12 answers with a case designed by wine lovers for wine lovers, one already trusted in hundreds of winery tasting rooms. Fill it with a mixed case from a weekend on the Silverado Trail, roll it to the gate, and pour your trip at home.
“Protect your wine. Travel in style. - VinGardeValise”