{"id":6119,"date":"2011-01-14T01:16:28","date_gmt":"2011-01-14T09:16:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cruisingdoneright.com\/?p=6119"},"modified":"2011-01-14T01:16:28","modified_gmt":"2011-01-14T09:16:28","slug":"royal-caribbean-wine-tasting-bordeaux-lafite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/?p=6119","title":{"rendered":"Royal Caribbean's French Wine Buzzword"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>We don’t know a lot about French wine, but we know a little. Thanks to our late, great neighbor Ralph Wells, we know there are five “first-growth wines” in France, and there will always be only five \u2014 Chateau Haut-Brion<\/a>, Chateau Latour<\/a>, <\/a>\"\"<\/a>Chateau Lafite, Chateau Mouton<\/a>, Chateau Margaux<\/a>. We know that we like Bordeaux reds, and that we don’t care for Beaujolais Nouveau. And we know that the greatest of all French wines (Ralph’s opinion) is Chateau P\u00e9trus<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Having said all that, French red wine always catches our attention, especially if any of the buzzwords in that first paragraph are mentioned.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Royal Caribbean is expanding its taste test to its entire fleet of 22 ships. The taste test is called the Lafite Wine Experience. The key word\u2026Lafite.<\/p>\n

It has our attention.<\/p>\n

This is a wine-tasting program Royal Caribbean<\/a> launched (ship terminology here) last month. Only for passengers on the Allure of the Seas<\/a>. The five hours we spent visiting the Allure one day was dry\u2026well it did rain. It was November, too soon for the wine tasting.<\/p>\n

It sounds like we missed the boat, so to speak.<\/p>\n

Since mid-December, the Lafite Wine Experience has been successful enough to offer it to all Royal Caribbean customers by the end of March. What is it? A taste of four Lafite wines for $29. What a deal! One of them is a white Bordeaux, which is too bad, but maybe a white Bordeaux from Lafite \"\"<\/a>would surprise us.<\/p>\n

The reds aren’t first-growths but, being Lafites, there’s brand excellence to protect. They’re from the winemaker’s Reserve Speciale series and they’re being presented by a company cellar master (sommelier?). And anybody willing to spend an hour \u2014 and $29 \u2014 to taste four wines probably knows something about French wine.<\/p>\n

Even if it’s just a little.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We don’t know a lot about French wine, but we know a little. Thanks to our late, great neighbor Ralph Wells, we know there are five “first-growth wines” in France, and there will always be only five \u2014 Chateau Haut-Brion, Chateau Latour, Chateau Lafite, Chateau Mouton, Chateau Margaux. We know that we like Bordeaux reds,… Continue reading Royal Caribbean's French Wine Buzzword<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,25,36,19,15],"tags":[475,476,35,477,33,85],"class_list":["post-6119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cruise-industry-news","category-people","category-reviews","category-ships","category-stories","tag-bordeaux-wine","tag-chateau-lafite","tag-cruises","tag-french-first-growth-wines","tag-royal-caribbean","tag-wine-tasting","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6119","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6119"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6119\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}