Women of Wine Tasting Experience

[Tina99]

Hello everyone ~ Upcoming November 7-nt cruise on Navigator offers a Women of Wine Tasting Experience. I have not seen this before. Has anyone done this?  Is it worth $42?

[ARandomTraveler]

This topic was brought up recently. I'd never heard of it, but after reading the comments, I looked into it and booked it for my upcoming allure sailing in a couple weeks. The link to the thread is below.
 

 

[dragontrainer]

This may be the topic referenced above from a recent (and ongoing) trip report:

 

• I linked to the trip report at the end, and I copy/pasted the portion related to the Women of Wine to make it easier to find. 
• If you had additional questions for their experience you could consider asking in the linked thread
• For clarity, I'm reposting from someone else's report, I have not participated.
• This was for Harmony; I don't have any feel for what differences may exist for Navigator.

 

 

"Before dinner that night, we had a 4pm reservation for this Women of Wine wine tasting experience.  This was given to us for free by the friend of mine who booked our cruise as a thank you.  The wine tasting was done at Vintages, so we didn't have too far to go to get there.  For those here that like wine, this would have been for you.  As this was formal night, we were all dressed up going to the wine tasting.  None of the Women of Wine were there, but we were treated to a video about each lady, their background, etc.  There was also this small booklet that you were given which also had more info about them.  Once each segment was played, the guy in Vintages imparted some interesting information about the wine we were about to taste (well, drink).  There were 3 reds, 3 whites and one sparkling white - that was the first one we started out with.  Additionally, each glass was placed in this circle on the circular mat to identify the vineyard/brand.  I quite liked the sparkling wine!  The other whites were sorta...eh..ok.  I'm not much of a red wine drinker, so only took a few sips of each of those.  You were also given a small charcuterie plate as well.  My mother was pretty picky about the wines and maybe had a sip of each, but my sister pretty much downed them all except for this one white!  I will say that the guy in Vintages who hosted this wine tasting did an amazing job!  I learned quite a bit from him, especially when it came to German Riesling wines.  The whole event took about an hour and 15 minutes."