Princess Cruise ship red wine list(partial)

Unless vintage dates and who made the wine is supplied, many of the wines could range from outstanding to vile, from good value to rip off, from too young to too old. So far as restaurant prices go, some of the wines for which the estate is given appear to be of attractive price if they are from a good year that is ready to drink.

Agree, without knowing vintage it's hard to say. And as CWDJRXYZ notes, many appelations are listed without even producer! Gevry- Chambertin can range from $15 to $100+, similar situation with Chianti Classico, Brunello, CdP,. etc.

The things that seem the best deals on current info would be the Farina nebbiolos (hard to argue with Barolo/Barbaresco under $50 on a winelist) or the Don Melchor.

"Larry" wrote ..........

The equation is simple -

55 bottles (excluding alcfree) @ 2 bottles per day (1 ea lunch & dinner) = 27 day cruise

Enjoy !!!!!

I suppose this is a "generic" no-name Chassagne Montrachet?

Seriously, how can you sell wine without mentioning it's producer? This is the case for most "foreign" wines on the list...

Larry wrote:

Just back from the Royal Princess so I can answer a couple of questions. they now charge $15US a bottle for corkage (I was charged once not the second time) these are mostly recent vintage.

this one is a 2005 IIRC from BeBouef

la Nerthe 2003 raisiny

03's and 04's

Brolio 03's and 04's the white burg's were mostly young Jadot's

Lat Princess Cruise I took they searched my bags for wines and took them. The list, while not great, will be reduced by the cheaper bottles going early. This has happened on every cruise I've taken and Princess seems to run out of inexpensive wines fast.

Forgive my ignorance as I have never been on a cruise, I thought that the wine was supplied with dinner????

Judith

As the resident cruise agent and junkie, I can attest that you are correct, but only in part. Wine, and other spirits are supplied on the "luxury lines", such as Regent, Silversea and the like as well as on some river cruises. Mainstream "mass market" cruises such as Princes, Holland America, Costa, Royal Caribbean and Celebrity to name a few, charge extra for anything other than water(tap)iced tea, tea and coffee.

There was a time in the 1800s when top restaurants always had decanters of both white and red wine on the table. A book written in the late 1800s by the retired Swiss chef of the Delmonico in New York gives information about this. He states that not matter what fine wines may be ordered at the meal, the table must nevertheless have decanters of white and red wine. There are restaurants today that have tasting menus that include matched wines in the basic costs, but I do not recall seeing any restaurants in recent years that include even very plain house wines at no extra cost with the a la carte selections.

A few years ago I frequented a pizza restaurant outside of Marseille, that had a nice outside lunch area. The pizza was OK if not memorable. Wine was included in the price: red, pink or white.

Each diner was served a 1.5 liter plastic bottle of wine. All well chilled. Needless to say, only screwtops were employed, making this well ahead of its time.

I don't remember if the bottles had labels or not...

;)

-E

It is supplied if you pay for it. Only a few cruise lines on the very upper end of cost and amenities give you alcohol. Silversea I believe is the only one. They make as much money from you for alcohol as they charge for the cruise in most cases.

In most French routier restaurants, you will get a bottle of housewine, red, with your lunch and, as you say, it comes with a screw top. Not bad when you consider the lunch is probably only about 10 euros.

One of the best rustic meals I have ever had was in an Italian lorry stop restaurant where you were not given a choice of meal, it ended up on the table with a bottle of red. It was a beef dish with olives and green beans and the wine was quite palatable and just for a few lira in those days.

Judith