I'd like to begin by saying that yo y mi querida (a couple of 50-somethings) are absolutely thrilled to have found your forum and are really enjoying reading your great comments and helpful hints as to thoroughly planning our eventual retirement to Mexico. Thanks to both those posting and those hosting.
Also, I'm prefacing my first post to your forum by stating that this will sound completely self-serving, slightly alcoholic and even a bit decadent, and that I realize it before saying it, but please bear with me.
Over the years we've managed to shed much of the "gotta have" impulses we entered adulthood with so moving doesn't present some of the problems inherent to the forum. However, I (as the major culprit of us two) have been completely unable to rein in my taste for good wine enjoyed at suppertime, and have enjoyed collecting many great vintages from around the world over the years, stashing them in my wine cellar for later enjoyment.
Three questions (and please assume in your answer that we would have secured the proper long-term visas indicating permanent residency): (1) are there import tariffs for bringing in a wine collection, say 1,000 bottles, from the US?; (2) what does a decent bottle of red wine retail for in most non-mainly-tourist communities? and (3) can wine be purchased over the internet and sent to a Mexican residence? How? Via FedEx or UPS, or is there a Mexican version of same?
Thanks very much.
Also, I'm prefacing my first post to your forum by stating that this will sound completely self-serving, slightly alcoholic and even a bit decadent, and that I realize it before saying it, but please bear with me.
Over the years we've managed to shed much of the "gotta have" impulses we entered adulthood with so moving doesn't present some of the problems inherent to the forum. However, I (as the major culprit of us two) have been completely unable to rein in my taste for good wine enjoyed at suppertime, and have enjoyed collecting many great vintages from around the world over the years, stashing them in my wine cellar for later enjoyment.
Three questions (and please assume in your answer that we would have secured the proper long-term visas indicating permanent residency): (1) are there import tariffs for bringing in a wine collection, say 1,000 bottles, from the US?; (2) what does a decent bottle of red wine retail for in most non-mainly-tourist communities? and (3) can wine be purchased over the internet and sent to a Mexican residence? How? Via FedEx or UPS, or is there a Mexican version of same?
Thanks very much.