Keeping bottles of wine , Epicurean

[Windsurfboy]

If you eat in Epicurean  two days in a row, can you keep bottles  to next night. My wife only drinks white , I  like a red. 

[Windsurfboy]

On Arvia

[smj777]

1 hour ago, Windsurfboy said:

If you eat in Epicurean  two days in a row, can you keep bottles  to next night. My wife only drinks white , I  like a red. 

Yes

[terrierjohn]

1 hour ago, Windsurfboy said:

If you eat in Epicurean  two days in a row, can you keep bottles  to next night. My wife only drinks white , I  like a red. 

What is wrong with buying wine by the glass, it's no more expensive , especially if you buy the large 250 mile glass, 

[Windsurfboy]

1 minute ago, terrierjohn said:

What is wrong with buying wine by the glass, it's no more expensive , especially if you buy the large 250 mile glass, 

 

Not all wine is available by the glass

[Chrisstew007]

 No problem with buying a bottle of wine and taking it away. We had a wine package and took it in every time, never took it out but we could have done!

[jh1809]

2 hours ago, terrierjohn said:

What is wrong with buying wine by the glass, it's no more expensive , especially if you buy the large 250 mile glass, 

A 250 mile glass is definitely a large one! 🙂

[terrierjohn]

3 hours ago, Windsurfboy said:

 

Not all wine is available by the glass

Agreed but I doubt the wine only sold by the bottle is worth the extra hassle of carrying back and forth to your cabin for every dinner.

[Selbourne]

5 hours ago, Windsurfboy said:

If you eat in Epicurean  two days in a row, can you keep bottles  to next night. My wife only drinks white , I  like a red. 

I’d be staggered if they wouldn’t do this for you. 

[zap99]

2 hours ago, Chrisstew007 said:

 No problem with buying a bottle of wine and taking it away. We had a wine package and took it in every time, never took it out but we could have done!

You could then top it up from the stuff you purchased in Tesco and take it to a restaurant the next night and the next and....not that we would ever Do such a thing.😂

[Selbourne]

7 minutes ago, zap99 said:

You could then top it up from the stuff you purchased in Tesco and take it to a restaurant the next night and the next and....not that we would ever Do such a thing.😂

I’ve always said that I wouldn’t walk around the ship with a part used bottle of wine as it looks naff, but you’ve got me thinking now 😂. All joking aside, I bet that plenty of people have wised up to that cunning ruse. Just one of the unintended consequences of the policy change, another being that we find that we now spend much less on wine than when we could always have a white and red on the go and have them within minutes of sitting down 🤔

[Purdey16]

I agree Selbourne, we normally get 1 white,1 red and we both drink what we fancy that night , I like to drink my wine straight away and not wait for the wine waiters and the wine turn up while your eating your main meal and we don’t spend as much as we would buying it single, sometimes I like a glass and then a wee bit more but not a whole glass which I would have to force down 😂 .

Im sure the epicurean will keep the wine for the following night .

[john watson]

I was under the impression that all partly used bottles of wine were stored at a single depository or at  least recoverable by the staff even if you dine at different restaurants after a bottle was started.

 

Regards John

[Megabear2]

8 minutes ago, john watson said:

I was under the impression that all partly used bottles of wine were stored at a single depository or at  least recoverable by the staff even if you dine at different restaurants after a bottle was started.

 

Regards John

Unfortunately that as standard practice ended with covid.  Anytime dining MDR guests cannot have wine stored on any ship but on the smaller vessels those on fixed dining have reported that storage is still being offered.

Edited May 7 by Megabear2

[Lee Jones Jnr]

On 4/6/2024 at 5:11 PM, Windsurfboy said:

On Arvia

You can take it away and bring it back but it won't be stored for you

[Windsurfboy]

My question  was specfic to Epicurean where we will be eating most nights. So I will have a chat with Maitre D. 

 

I will not walk round the ship from Epicurean to an aft suite with a bottle in my hand or take a bottle with us to be theatre.  No longer a student. There isn't that much red by the glass I fancy as a treat , was looking forward to the Barolo, or Gevrey Chambertin. 

[ScotchBoy]

On 4/6/2024 at 11:14 PM, zap99 said:

You could then top it up from the stuff you purchased in Tesco and take it to a restaurant the next night and the next and....not that we would ever Do such a thing.😂

Or you could just drink the stuff from Tesco that is offered in the restaurant. In Epicurean last week, we were served a Yellowtail Chardonnay, that is available in Tesco (and the like), for less than £8 a bottle. I was astonished.  

[Windsurfboy]

On 5/10/2024 at 1:55 PM, ScotchBoy said:

Or you could just drink the stuff from Tesco that is offered in the restaurant. In Epicurean last week, we were served a Yellowtail Chardonnay, that is available in Tesco (and the like), for less than £8 a bottle. I was astonished. 

 

 

When you say "you were served " a Yellowtail Chardonnay, is it now on the wine list and you choose it. Or was it served as part of a package. 

[ScotchBoy]

We don't have a drinks package on P&O, so it wasn't part of that. OH perused the wine list, as we both like chardonnay, we opted for an Australian. Don't recall if Yellowtail specifically was listed though. OH seemed surprised when it arrived, so I think that perhaps it was not listed. Maybe someone else can be more helpful. 

As an aside, there was a lot of unhappy diners on both of our recent visits to Epicurean at the end of April. One diner had a right old ding-dong with the maitre'd, and he had a point.