Enjoy New Wine Experiences On Windstar Cruises 2024 Sailings

On certain Windstar Cruises itineraries in 2024, the cruise line is introducing special wine experiences. Select guests will have the chance to sip rare and small-batch wines while sailing to destinations like Iceland, Portugal and Tahiti. This is a wonderful experience for those guests who particularly like sampling great wines while traveling to paradise.

Windstar to offer new wine experiences in 2024

Windstar Cruises is a small ship cruise line that will feature a curated selection of award-winning and rare wines on five cruises in 2024. Moreover, guests will have the opportunity to sip wines that are typically only available at the wineries, or to wine club members.

Windstar in partnership with several West Coast wineries and a US importer/exporter to offer exclusive wine-tasting seminars during the cruises. Meanwhile, other wine cruises will also overlap James Beard Foundation sailings. On these sailings, guests can also experience a chef-hosted dinner with wine pairings. They will also enjoy cooking demonstrations and a chef-led market tour.

Speaking in a statement, Peter Tobler, Windstar’s Director of Hotel Operations said:

We’ll be bringing a bit of wine country on board as a special experience for our guests. These are small production wineries, and our guests will be able to taste wines that aren’t available anywhere else except at the winery where they were produced.

Which cruises offer the wine experience?

1. James Beard Foundation & Wine Cruise: Cuisines & Cultures of Spain, Portugal and France

Cruise ship: Star Legend

Dates: May 28 to June 6, 2024

Featured Winery: Denner Vineyards of Paso Robles, California

Featured chef: Tanya Holland of the San Francisco Bay Area

2. Wine Cruise: Lands of the Midnight Sun

Cruise ship: Star Pride

Dates: June 10-21, 2024

Featured winery: Talbott Vineyards of Carmel-by-the-Sea, California

3. James Beard Foundation & Wine Cruise: Adriatic Archipelagos & Greek Goddesses

Cruise ship: Wind Surf

Dates: August 28 to September 5, 2024

Featured winery: Louis M. Martini Winery of Napa Valley, California

Featured chef: Loryn Nalic of St. Louis, Missouri

4. Wine Cruise: Sicilian Splendors

Cruise ship: Wind Surf

Dates: September 21 to October 1, 2024

Featured wines: US Importer and Exporter Maze Row Wine Merchant

5. Wine Cruise: Tahiti & the Tuamotu Islands

Cruise ship: Star Breeze

Dates: November 7 – 18, 2024

Featured winery: J Vineyards and Winery of Healdsburg, California.

About Windstar Cruises

Windstar Cruises operates a fleet of small luxury cruise ships. The cruise line’s six yachts can accommodate from 148 to 310 guests. Meanwhile, the cruise ships sail to 50 nations, calling at 150 ports throughout Central America, The Caribbean, Europe and the South Pacific.

Meanwhile, the cruise line offers two different yacht styles – the iconic sailing Wind Class and the all-suite Star Plus Class. Each offers custom-crafted journeys that highlight their unique attributes, whether cruising the Norwegian fjords or island-hopping in Tahiti.

Visit Windstar Cruises’ official website for more information.