{"id":9956,"date":"2011-10-13T01:42:14","date_gmt":"2011-10-13T08:42:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cruisingdoneright.com\/?p=9956"},"modified":"2011-10-13T01:42:14","modified_gmt":"2011-10-13T08:42:14","slug":"celebrity-wine-the-perfect-match","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/?p=9956","title":{"rendered":"Celebrity, Wine the Perfect Match"},"content":{"rendered":"

As wine lovers go, we don’t think we’re especially HM, even though we did once have TWO sommeliers at our TABLE while on a cruise ship, the Celebrity Millennium<\/a>. At the other end \"\"<\/a>of the wine bottle, we were on a Princess<\/a> cruise where there was ONE sommelier for the entire ship!<\/p>\n

The point here is that Celebrity<\/a> makes a huge commitment to winos…er, wine lovers. (The Princess experience was excellent for everybody, except perhaps Andre Smith, the sommelier, who had an army of “sou-sommeliers” at his disposal.)<\/p>\n

Celebrity just raised the wine bar…or the wine glass.<\/p>\n

Its latest enhancement is to take seven ships full of passengers \u2014 or one ship, the Celebrity Constellation<\/a>, seven times \u2014 for overnight stays in France, Spain and Portugal. This all happens about a year from now, in the heart of the harvest season for vineyards.<\/p>\n

This dovetails nicely with Celerity’s dedication to all things wine. Impressive Cellar Masters wine bars (above) are open 24 hours-a-day on most of its 10 ships, with a wonderful selection of wines. The wine lists are at least the equal of any cruise line. They have many sommeliers…on the Celebrity Eclipse there are 22.<\/p>\n

The 2012 Constellation wine cruises, which go on sale later this week, will spend overnights in regions known for wines of champagne, Bordeaux and Rioja.<\/p>\n

And if you don’t known what Rioja is, well…you need a sommelier.<\/p>\n

DAILY DEAL:<\/strong><\/span>
\nPacific Princess<\/a>
\n12 nights
\nNovember 3, 2011
\nVenice<\/a> to Greece (Holy Land)
\nBalcony $2099
\nwww.princess.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As wine lovers go, we don’t think we’re especially HM, even though we did once have TWO sommeliers at our TABLE while on a cruise ship, the Celebrity Millennium. At the other end of the wine bottle, we were on a Princess cruise where there was ONE sommelier for the entire ship! The point here… Continue reading Celebrity, Wine the Perfect Match<\/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":[16,32,25,19,15],"tags":[475,71,743,72,86,35,312,64,115,321,116,85],"class_list":["post-9956","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cruise-industry-news","category-deals","category-people","category-ships","category-stories","tag-bordeaux-wine","tag-celebrity","tag-celebrity-constellation","tag-cruise-deals","tag-cruise-ships","tag-cruises","tag-finding-bargains","tag-princess-cruise","tag-sommeliers","tag-theme-cruises","tag-wine","tag-wine-tasting","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9956","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=9956"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9956\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}