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The trouble with travelling when wine is involved.

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Isn' it time someone did something about the ludicrous airport security regulation governing wine? My question is prompted by the recent tale of an absent-minded Foster's regional manager who had to destroy two bottles of Penfolds Grange at Melbourne airport when a jobsworth wouldn' let him carry them through security. A similar thing happened to two friends of mine travelling back from Florence. Their solution, however, was to retire to the closest bar and drink their precious haul of Chianti.

As a journalist, I used to be able to carry interesting bottles back from trips in the comparative safety of my hand luggage. Now they have to travel in my suitcase. There were three carefully wrapped bottles in my ...

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