Shipping your wines to CSWWC

Wine samples (4 bottles of each wine entered, whether 75cl, 150cl or jeroboams) need to arrive at Sensible Wine Services, by Friday 17th May 2024.

Late arrivals will not be accepted and neither credits nor refunds will be issued if the wines fail to arrive on time.

The delivery address is:

CSWWC 2024 ENTRIES
c/o Sensible Wine Services,
Unit 10, Dana Trading Estate,
Transfesa Road, Paddock Wood,
Kent, TN12 6UT
UK

Please download the CSWWC-2024-delivery-label and attach this to each of your sample boxes.

IMPORTANT: If you choose to use your own carrier service you are fully responsible for ALL transportation costs including taxes, duty and storage. The CSWWC will NOT be responsible for your shipping and customs charges.

Please do NOT use standard postal systems. They always get held up at customs, and we are unable to clear or collect.

The CSWWC cannot confirm receipt of any wine samples until AFTER 17th May  (the deadline for receipt of all wines at Sensible Wine Services).

Optional CSWWC Global Shipping Service

We are again offering a special CSWWC Global Shipping Service in conjunction with Hellmann Beverage Logistics, for those entrants who prefer not to use their own carrier service. If you wish to use this service, contact your local Hellmann agent from the list below.  They must receive your samples by FRIDAY 26th APRIL 2024

The CSWWC Global Shipping Service offers shipping from the following countries: Australia,  Austria, Canada,  France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, New Zealand, Spain, South Africa and the United States. We believe that the CSWWC Global Shipping Service is cheaper and more reliable than most other services like DHL, TNT, FedEx etc. If your country is not listed above please get in touch with us directly.

IMPORTANT

If sending samples from France, the French entries must come to the Hellmann’s offices with French Duty Paid. This means that the capsules on the bottles will have the green and white Marianne sticker applied.

For your awareness (and this is a significant saving for EU entrants) Hellmann’s shipping offer includes customs clearance costs. Since Brexit, EU wine shipments have incurred approx. £100 in customs clearance charges which needs to be paid if using your own courier. Should you choose to use the consolidated service, you will not have to pay this, as we will cover all of those costs on their behalf.

How to use this service:

  1. The cost is £95 per entry outside Europe and £75 per entry within Europe, which must be paid directly to CSWWC, either by credit or debit card via this website when you pay for your wine entries, or by invoice and bank transfer by emailing Eva Callaghan.
    • This includes charges associated with duty, storage, carriage UK clearance and taxes on samples supplied.
  2. Contact your local Hellmann Beverage Logistics approved shipping agent (see list below) as soon as possible and arrange to deliver your wine samples to them by 26th APRIL 2024.
    • It is the entrant’s responsibility to contact their Hellmann agent. The CSWWC does not take responsibility for any logistics for using this service.
  3. It is the responsibility of the entrant to deliver the wines and pay all delivery charges up to the point where their local Hellmann Beverage Logistics’ approved shipping agent receives the samples.
    • If you are using a private courier please mark “Shipper accepts charges” on your couriers’ shipping forms to ensure that all costs get charged to you.
    • Keep a copy of this, it is required by Hellmann Beverage Logistic as proof that UK Duties have been paid.
  4. All boxes containing wine samples must be clearly labelled on the outside using the following details: 
    1. Wine Samples – Not for Commercial Sale (The full address of the competition): Champagne & Sparkling Wine World Championships. Sensible Wine Services, Unit 10, Dana Trading Estate, Transfesa Road, Paddock Wood, Kent, TN12 6UT 
    2. Entrant ID no: This is your order number upon entry to the competition
    3. Your Company Name/Producer Name….
    4. Cut-off date of the competition. May 2024 Shipper – Hellmann Worldwide Logistics.
  5. Submitters using a Hellmann Beverage Logistics agent for shipping their samples will just need to share proof of service purchase from the CSWWC by way of the invoice to the depot. 

CSWWC Approved Hellmann Beverage Logistics Shipping Agents Address’s can be found here: CSWWC Partner List 2024