Rescue Mission Underway For Rare Wine Collections Menaced By Irma

Xpeditr Inc. in the Media

(Reuters, September 7, 2017) — Swooping in ahead of Hurricane Irma’s feared weekend arrival, an emergency response team is rescuing rare treasures—some of them survivors of world wars and all of them liquid—from harm’s way in Florida and Louisiana.

Wine collections worth millions of dollars are being stashed out of reach of the Category 5 hurricane, moved from homes to local bunker-like storage units or shuttled to temperature-controlled warehouses as far away as New Jersey.