This was a tough one to pass up for us. A cruise from Vancouver to San Diego. It’s a wine cruise. Also a Mac cruise. If there are two things that have long been a part of our lives, they are wine and Macs. It gets better. The ship is the Celebrity Millennium, a ship… Continue reading Millennium, Macs, Wine & More
Tag: Wine
Cruise Class Solution to Red Wine
There I was, attending a mini-seminar on Riedel wine glasses on the Celebrity Eclipse when a fellow passenger asked the question that made me cringe. “What do you do if you can’t get rid of red wine stains?” Ingrid Talavera (right), the sommelier conducting the Celebrity Life class, had just explained that you swirl a… Continue reading Cruise Class Solution to Red Wine
The Eclipse's Worldly Cellar Master
When we winos think of sommeliers, there is a tendency to believe they’re from France, or Italy, maybe Australia, perhaps Argentina. But Croatia? It was a small winery somewhere north of Zagreb that sent Sinisa Lepanovic to the world of wines. On the Celebrity Eclipse, he is more than a sommelier…he is The Cellar Master,… Continue reading The Eclipse's Worldly Cellar Master
Notes From The Boat…
Random thoughts and notes, after 14 days on the Celebrity Millennium, our first trip through the Panama Canal… Celebrity’s Hotel Director, Andrew Harris, spent more than three decades in the hotel industry before the cruise line wisely convinced him to come aboard in 2009. After declining several times to go on a cruise and check… Continue reading Notes From The Boat…