Blend Craft Wine specializes in providing wine related activities and wine education programs onboard luxury cruise ships worldwide, placing one or two professional winemakers on various cruise ships to lead their onboard programs. MSC Cruises is partnering with Blend Craft Wines to bring exclusive wine-themed activities to guests on four upcoming Caribbean sailings of MSC Poesia.
“We are very excited to be able to bring the world of wines to our guests through these unique, fun and educational activities,” said Richard E. Sasso, president and CEO of MSC Cruises (USA), Inc. “Blend Craft Wines creates a virtual winery at sea and adds yet another dimension to MSC Cruises’ already exceptional onboard experience.”
Blend Craft’s onboard staff has extensive wine knowledge and the ability to share their passion for wine through their hallmark activity, the Winemaker Experience where guests blend and create their own wines to take home. In this activity our Winemaker teaches the group about and wine blending then leads them through an interactive exercise as they experiment and make and bottle their own unique wine blend.
Another feature Blend Craft brings on board is Winemaker Dinner which combines the Winemaker Experience with an intimate group dinner hosted by the Winemaker.
In the Bottle Shock Experience (called the World Series of Wine on MSC, the Winemaker leads a large group in a re-creation of the famous Judgment at Paris wine competition and then presents the beautiful cinematic film Bottle Shock.
Blend Craft winemakers also host several wine tasting sessions aimed at introducing passengers on board to various wine clubs and winemaking opportunities offered by the company and their partners.
Blend Craft recruits its onboard winemakers from Napa, California, where they have an average of 10+ years of wine industry experience including work as professional winemakers.
Blend Craft’s fee-based activities will be offered on the following MSC Poesia roundtrip sailings from Fort Lauderdale
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