Cruises
Why travel with FOOD & WINE TRAILS? Here's why...
All our wine & food cruises are hosted by nationally recognized winemakers or chefs. Most include free airfare from your home city as well as special programming such as Winemaker's dinners and private wine tastings, prepaid gratuities and shipboard credits. Our wine & food cruises offer the convenience of not having to pack and unpack, and the fun and conviviality of traveling with a group of like-minded people.
We offer wine & food cruises:
Our “Private Label” cruises feature well-known winemakers or chefs who travel with the group as the trip-host. These luminaries oversee a series of tastings, dinners and parties, which are private to your group and act as your personal conduit to the world of food and wine.
A list of our Private Label cruises can be found to the left, or you can find detail on each cruise by moving down the page. Most of these trips also includes optional small-group SHORE TOURS to top wine estates, vineyards and restaurants. These too are kept private to your group. They are consistently one of the highest-rated parts of our trips and were a primary reason that the editors of Conde Nast Traveler rated our company as “The best wine-tour company in the world”.
What does a Food & Wine Trails wine cruise offer that no other wine or cruise vacation does? All the above, PLUS great cruise discounts on the world's best cruise lines: Oceania, Silverseas, Regent, Holland America and more.
CLICK HERE for a slideshow of pictures from some of our past Wine Cruises.
Here is a video of V. Sattui Winery's 2012 F&WT cruise -
Current Cruises
 | Sommelier, Car & Driver Silversea
Silversea is proud to partner with Food & Wine Trails on their newest Silver Shore program, pairing travelers with complimentary “Sommelier Car & Driver” services in three of Europe’s premier wine regions. In every port of call, the Silver Shore Concierge are available to assist passengers' regional exploration from a more personal perspective by creating customized excursions. The new “Sommelier Car & Driver” service, designed for the serious wine lover, takes this service to the next level. Offered exclusively to the clients of HMS Travel and Food & Wine Trails and offered in 2012 on fifteen Silversea voyages, the professional sommelier and driver provide individuals with unparalleled insight and access to top wineries near the cruise-ports of Livorno, Italy; Marseille, France; and Barcelona, Spain. |
 | Oregon Cult Pinot Noir 2012 Wine Cruise Oceania Cruises' Regatta 06/25/2012 -07/05/2012
Announcing the first F&WT cruise dedicated to the hottest cult Pinot Noir wines of Oregon. Join Dick and Nancy Pozi, founders of Ponzi Vineyards and Rollin Soles the founder and winemaker for Argyle Winery with his wife Corby Stone-Breaker – founder of ROCO Winery, for an incredible 10-day food and wine journey from Barcelona to Athens. You'll have the opportunity to visit such famous wine regions as Bolgheri and Tuscany, Campagna, Cote de Provence and Châteauneuf-du-Pape, and the island of Santorini, the home of one of Wine Spectator’s Top 100 Wineries of the World. |
 | Joseph Phelps & Freestone Vineyards 2012 Wine Cruise Oceania Cruises' Newest Ship - the Riviera 06/27/2012 -07/07/2012
Come cruise the Mediterranean with the winery that created Wine Spectator's 2002 Wine of the Year, Joseph Phelps Vineyards, their sister winery, Freestone Vineyards, on a 10-Night wine cruise from Rome to Venice. These two world class Pinot Noir and Chardonnay producers are inviting their wine club members and friends of the wineries to embark on a food and wine adventure that will please the palate as well as satisfy the senses. Director of Winemaking Damian Parker will be your host on this wine lover's dream vacation that includes private parties, winemaker's dinner, seminars and wine tastings. |
 | Chimney Rock Winery 2012 Wine Cruise Holland America Line 07/14 - 07/21/2012 07/14/2012 -07/21/2012 Join Chimney Rock's Winemaker and General Manager, Elizabeth Vianna, on a 7-day cruise through the Alaskan Inside Passage. See the beauty that is Alaska while enjoying an onboard wine education program that includes a Welcome Reception, two wine seminar and tastings, Winemaker's dinner featuring Chimney Rock wines and a special group dinner featuring the wines of Chimney Rock's sister winery, Sanford Winery & Vineyards. Prices start at $1,449 per person! |
 | Paumanok Vineyards & Black Ankle Vineyards 2012 Wine Cruise Oceania Cruises' Newest Ship - the Riviera 08/13/2012 -08/23/2012
In August 2012, two of the East Coast’s most respected winemakers join together to celebrate their growing success on a 10-night Mediterranean wine cruise from Venice to Rome. Winery owners Charles and Ursula Massoud (Paumanok Vineyards) and Ed and Sarah Boyce (Black Ankle Vineyards) will be your hosts during the cruise that includes an onboard wine education program with private parties, seminar and wine tastings, winemaker’s dinner and a few optional wine focused shore excursions in Europe's most prestigious wine regions. Cruise the Med with the winemaker Wine Spectator called a “standout vintner of Long Island wines,” (Massoud) and the winery Wine Business Monthly recently named as one of America’s “hottest small brands” (Black Ankle). |
 | FOOD & WINE Magazine's 3rd Annual Wine Voyage Oceania Cruises' Newest Ship - the Riviera 09/02/2012 -09/14/2012 Join FOOD & WINE Magazine’s third annual wine voyage as they celebrate the “hottest wines from Spain.” Cruising on Oceania Cruises’ newest ship, Riviera, you will enjoy an onboard wine education program hosted by Anthony Giglio (author of FOOD & WINE’s annual Wine Guide) and Spain’s top wine personalities. Events include private parties, tastings of 90+ rated wines and special winemaker’s dinners. Riviera was designed especially for the food and wine lover, so will be the perfect setting for this 12-day itinerary that visits six of Spain’s most beautiful ports as well as Morocco and Portugal. Prices start at $4,899 per person and include FREE Air! |
 | Viansa Winery & Vineyards 2012 Wine Cruise Oceania Cruises' Newest Ship - the Riviera 09/14/2012 -09/24/2012
Join winery President, Lloyd Davis, as he escorts a group of Viansa club members and friends of the winery on a 10-night Mediterranean cruise from Lisbon, Portugal to Rome, Italy. As an additional treat, Livia Colantonio, long-time friend and culinary consultant to Viansa, will be onboard the ship to lead the group in a hands-on cooking class in the ship's Culinary Center. The itinerary in 2012 is filled with new and exciting ports of call including Casablanca, Morocco and Granada, Spain. So reserve space today for this wine lover's vacation of a lifetime! |
 | 2012 Gold Medal Wine Cruise with Girard, Cosentino & Kunde wineries Oceania Cruises' Newest Ship - the Riviera 09/24/2012 -10/04/2012
Join Vintner, Pat Roney, along with winemakers Mitch Cosentino and Jeff Kunde, for the 2012 Gold Medal Wine Cruise featuring gold medal-winning wines from Girard Winery, Cosentino Winery and Kunde Family Estate. Your hosts Pat, Jeff and Mitch will lead the group in a series of private events including Welcome Reception, two wine seminar and tastings and a 5-course winemaker's dinner. So if you love wine, this cruise is your golden opportunity to take your palette on vacation and learn a few secrets from three experts on how they turn grapes into pure gold. |
 | V. Sattui 2013 Wine Cruise Oceania Cruises' Riviera 04/21/2013 -04/28/2013
V. Sattui Winery Owner Dario Sattui and President/Co-owner Tom Davies are hosting the winery's second F&WT wine cruise in the Spring of 2013. This time they are cruising for seven fabulous days through the Western Mediterranean onboard Oceania Cruises’ new Riviera. 2013 will be Oceania Cruises’ first time offering the shorter seven day port intensive itineraries, but foodies and wine lovers alike will enjoy the same exclusive onboard parties, wine tastings and private winemakers dinner and – of course – don’t forget the incredible optional shore excursions scheduled for Provence and Tuscany. This is a trip you won’t want to miss!
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 | Second Annual Two Pillars of Pinot Wine Cruise with Foxen and Martinelli Vineyards & Winery Oceania Cruises' Riviera 05/25/2013 -07/06/2013 Join Regina Martinelli and her family from Russian River’s Martinelli Winery, and Jenny and Dick Dore of Foxen in Santa Maria California, on their second “Two Pillars of Pinot Noir” wine-lovers cruise. You will enjoy a private onboard wine program, and the fun of traveling with a like-minded convivial group on a deluxe, mid-sized ship. While in port, you can wander on your own, or join one of the private-to-the-group winery tours to such famous wineries as Ornellaia, a super Tuscan winery that received a Perfect 100-score from Wine Spectator, a winery located on a Greek island that boasts some of the most famous views in the world, and to small family owned winery on the slopes of Sicily's volcanic Mt. Etna.
Prices start at $4,374 per person and include FREE AIR! |
 | Ramey Wine Cellars 2013 Wine Cruise Oceania Cruises' Nautica 06/13/2013 -06/20/2013
Wine pioneer David Ramey is hosting a special 7-night Bordeaux wine cruise aboard Oceania Cruises’ Nautica in June, 2013. David once worked for Chateau Petrus the French wine house responsible for producing the most expensive Bordeaux in the world. Oceania Cruises is the cruise line known for catering to wine and food lovers. If you love wine, this is the vacation for you. You’ll visit fabulous ports of call from Lisbon to London including Oporto, La Coruna, Bilbao, and of course Bordeaux. |