Complimentary Latitude dinner wine list

[thespiritmovesme]

Could someone post the current choices for the free wines offered for the Latitude dinner voucher? Also, any difficulty actually getting them? TIA

[BirdTravels]

Since you can use your vouchers in any restaurant, wine should be available in all restaurants except Onda and Palomar (who have a sustainable wine list). 

 

Post-restart, they had the pre-pandemic wine list, which they had a lot of supply chain issues provisioning. (We had been on our 3rd or 4th choice before we found a bottle in stock on cruises right after the restart). Now, they have cut the list down to a few selections. 

 

[Mandalay5]

38 minutes ago, BirdTravels said:

Since you can use your vouchers in any restaurant, wine should be available in all restaurants except Onda and Palomar (who have a sustainable wine list). 

 

Post-restart, they had the pre-pandemic wine list, which they had a lot of supply chain issues provisioning. (We had been on our 3rd or 4th choice before we found a bottle in stock on cruises right after the restart). Now, they have cut the list down to a few selections. 

 

Interestingly, we used our all of vouchers at Palomar last week for a family dinner and they offered us a bottle of wine. No one in our party drinks wine, so it may have been a limited selection.

[CaptainBazz]

On our three cruises this year we used our voucher in Cagney's...very limited selection and our first choice was always out of stock... but we always managed to find something suitable.

[Travelling2Some]

Can we take our complimentary bottle, unopened, to our cabin to enjoy later? 

[BirdTravels]

2 hours ago, Mandalay5 said:

Interestingly, we used our all of vouchers at Palomar last week for a family dinner and they offered us a bottle of wine. No one in our party drinks wine, so it may have been a limited selection.

Interesting. None of the vouchers have updated language. We were told last week that the vouchers had to be used at different restaurants; and Onda and Palomar did not have the wines. Since the vouchers theoretically  have a 1-1-1 limit, we used ours at Teppanyaki and kept used our SDPs at Palomar (ate there twice).  

[complawyer]

travelling2some.  yes, definitely. just tell the server not to open it. we even packed it and took it home

[dhanakorn]

Shades of Blue Reisling is pretty good

 

 

Easy to drink. Pair well with the dover sole. 

[SplashOfWater]

40 minutes ago, dhanakorn said:

Shades of Blue Reisling is pretty good

 

 

Easy to drink. Pair well with the dover sole. 

I agree. We also had this wine at Le Bistro with the Dover Sole and Fruits de Mer. 

[BirdTravels]

3 hours ago, Travelling2Some said:

Can we take our complimentary bottle, unopened, to our cabin to enjoy later? 

Yup. since we can get free glasses of wine with our beverage package, the complimentary bottle of wine come home to extend the cruise experience. 

[kochleffel]

5 hours ago, Travelling2Some said:

Can we take our complimentary bottle, unopened, to our cabin to enjoy later? 

 

I was once a guest in Cagney's of a Platinum passenger who took the unopened bottle with him at disembarkation, to give to a brother whom he was about to visit.

 

My own first cruise as Platinum is in six weeks, and since I will have a beverage package, I might bring it home. Question: does it count against the U.S. customs exemption?

Edited December 18, 2022 by kochleffel

[MagnoliaBlossom]

Last week on the BA, the wine list in Cagneys was a bit larger.  There were five or six whites, we tried a blend we’ve never had before and it was quite nice, a Spanish wine if I remember correctly. So maybe the supply chain is beginning to clear a bit, or that other suppliers are being found.

Edited December 18, 2022 by MagnoliaBlossom

[weltek]

The Lindemann Shriaz was not available last week, so they brought us another siraz that was very tasty with our perfectly cooked Cagneys steaks.

[ColdCruise]

Wow - now why have I never thought of bringing the wine home? 🤯 

 

Well, other than the bottles we've had in Cagney's have been nicer than the by the glass options in the basic drinks package . 
 

good tip though!

[techappl]

Just back from NCL Sun. We were disappointed to find that the wine list offered with the latitudes dinner voucher is a slimmed down version from what was previously offered.  Basically it is the same wines available in the glass with free at sea.  As long time NCL cruisers, we used to enjoy a bottle of Chilean Errazuriz with our latitudes meal.  This time, of course, not on the list.  Just more trimming back by NCL.  Of course, it is trivial. But we will vote with our feet.

[fastpitchdad]

21 minutes ago, techappl said:

Just back from NCL Sun. We were disappointed to find that the wine list offered with the latitudes dinner voucher is a slimmed down version from what was previously offered.  Basically it is the same wines available in the glass with free at sea.  As long time NCL cruisers, we used to enjoy a bottle of Chilean Errazuriz with our latitudes meal.  This time, of course, not on the list.  Just more trimming back by NCL.  Of course, it is trivial. But we will vote with our feet.

 

With no more corkage fees, the best way to have good wine with dinner is to bring your own.

[techappl]

I have used the corkage fee route often in the past.

But I wasn't aware that corkage fees have been done away with.  Surely the wine is just taken off you at security and returned to you on the last day?

[Pitzel]

1 hour ago, techappl said:

I have used the corkage fee route often in the past.

But I wasn't aware that corkage fees have been done away with.  Surely the wine is just taken off you at security and returned to you on the last day?

Nope. You can bring wine and champagne on board with you to consume. Normally, there is a $15 corkage fee per 750 ml, but they recently changed the policy to waive the fee if you have one of their beverage packages.

[SplashOfWater]

The Latitudes wine list from our Prima cruise last week:

 

[justhappy]

On 12/17/2022 at 4:58 PM, dhanakorn said:

Shades of Blue Reisling is pretty good

 

 

Easy to drink. Pair well with the dover sole. 

Good to know, thank you. I really liked the Essence Riesling they used to offer, and I always order the Dover Sole.

[BirdTravels]

31 minutes ago, SplashOfWater said:

The Latitudes wine list from our Prima cruise last week:

 

Thanks!

 

There are [a lot] more wines on the list now than on our Prima cruises in October and December. And more than on our Breakaway wine list in August. 

[Sim1979]

11 hours ago, SplashOfWater said:

The Latitudes wine list from our Prima cruise last week:

 

 

DW and I really liked the 6eme Sens, it was our favorite during the Wine Tasting tour and we were happy to find that it was on the list when we went at le Bistro afterward... nice to see it's still on the list.

 

We are no drinker though (we even decline the drinking package), so we're no expert in any way.

[Travelicious]

The bottle of merlot we chose from that list recently was pretty bad.