🍷 Wine

A standard wine bottle holds 750ml, which is well over the 100ml carry-on liquid limit, so it will be confiscated at the checkpoint if you try to bring it from outside the airport. The only exception is wine purchased airside after security in a sealed duty-free bag with a receipt, which is permitted in carry-on as long as the bag stays sealed. Pre-security purchases must go in checked baggage.

You can pack wine in your checked bag without an aviation restriction on quantity, but Australian customs limits duty-free wine on arrival to 2.25 litres per adult. Canada is even more restrictive at 1.5 litres duty-free. Bringing more than the duty-free allowance is not banned outright, but you will owe duty and tax on the excess and must declare it on arrival.

Duty-free wine in an official sealed retail bag with a receipt is generally not opened at the departure gate, but customs officers at your destination can and do inspect duty-free purchases. If the seal is broken or the receipt is missing, officers may treat the bottle as a personal import subject to duty. Keep the bag sealed and the receipt visible inside it.

Buy wine at an airside duty-free shop after you have cleared security, not before. Make sure the shop seals the bottle in an official duty-free bag and places your receipt inside it. For connecting flights, check whether your transit airport allows sealed duty-free liquids through its own security — some airports, particularly in Asia, require those bags to be re-screened.