Shipping Bacadi to Europe

I want to send a present of a large bottle of Bacadi to France. Any hints on the customs situation? Is it allowed unacompanied?

Japan Post seems to allow sending such bottles, but for customs you need to search from the French side - wouldn't it make more sense to find a shop in France that sells via webshop and order rom there?

do you mean Bacardi Rum ?? if so why would you want to send that as a gift from Japan ?? it's sure not a Japanese product. I agree with AK.

Well, um, yes I know Bacardi is not Japanese...duh...

Surely you'd be bored to know my reasons, but in fact after looking around the Internet it seems pretty hard to buy/ship liquor internationally. Easier to just drop in to the local store and box it up and away.

Thanks

Dave,

Um, what I meant was that if you want to send that gift to someone in France, it might be better to find a website run by a French company (= located in France), so that the shipping (from the shop to the recipient) would be domestic.

I have some relatives in continental Europe, and yes I have done that :) The only difficulty there I had was finding a European webstore that accepted Japan-issued credit card, though. But I have done it before and it worked...

Thanks AK. I will try again on buying online, and hopefully cand find something, but as you say they are hurdles that might make picking one up locally much less of a headache.

I am pretty sure that Bacardi is sold in France!

Are you aware that France is also a producer of rhum? not in Metropolitan France but in the overseas region of Martinique (West Indies). Martinique is not a colony but part and parcel of the French nation, just like Hawaii is part of the USA.. The inhabitants of Martinique are French citizens and therefore also EU citizens.
have a look at http://www.francetoday.com/articles/2009/02/10/martinique-rum.html