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On embarkation day, if you head over into Europa to the La Piazza bar area, you can see and sign up for the various beverage seminars offered during your particular sailing. On our recent 7-Night Eastern Caribbean cruise aboard the Disney Fantasy, we noticed a few new tastings available.
Each of the beverage tasting seminars are about 45 minute in length. The dates and times listed below were from our 7-Night Eastern Caribbean sailing on the Disney Fantasy March 9-16, 2013. They are done mostly on sea days, however, budget inn hotels on our cruise, there was one offered on Castaway Cay day. Please keep in mind that the offerings and times are subject to change budget inn hotels from cruise to cruise.
We did Mixology on the Fantasy budget inn hotels on our December 8-15 cruise, and we ll have a post on that soon. That one was a lot of fun and we highly budget inn hotels recommend it! Unfortunately, on this cruise, we did not get a chance to do any of the other tastings. We are interested in the Champagne and the newly offered Wine Chocolate tastings, and hope to do those on one of our upcoming voyages. We did, however, stop in Ooh La La on Thursday evening while our daughter spent some time in the kids club, and enjoyed a lovely champagne cocktail called the Tropicale (good, but a little sweet).
While we were sitting there enjoying the cocktail, we chatted with the bartender, Giovanni from Italy. budget inn hotels He was truly an awesome guy. We started talking about various champagnes after talking about the ones we had for the Champagne Pairing at Remy Brunch. Giovanni was full of knowledge.
Then, we mentioned the tastings and Giovanni told us that he did ALL of the tastings on the Wonder (he had recently been on the Magic and Wonder and was now on the Fantasy, all in one contract!). He told us that he was the bartender that proposed the Amari tasting and that he held the tasting for several of the officers before they decided to add it as an offering. budget inn hotels Our big question was, What exactly is Amari anyways? Well, amari is an Italian herbal liquor, usually referred to as an after-dinner digestif. budget inn hotels He told us that most are bitter, but that their flavors can be changed simply budget inn hotels by what you eat right before you drink it; something as simple as an Italian almond cookie can bring out several different notes in the liquor. One of the types of amari, Fernet Branca, is one of the bitter ones and is made from a secret family recipe using 27 different herbs still to this day (there in, in fact, a cocktail make in La Piazza which uses Fernet Branca called the Bauta). Giovanni was the perfect person to talk to about this to and not only did he describe it to us, but he went out to La Piazza and brought back 3 of the Amari bottles for us to smell. You could definitely tell that they were 3 distinctively different composures.
The conversation about amari lead to wine, cognac, and then to vodka. Giovanni spent one hour with us just chatting about all of these different things. He was a very nice, informative, and amazing guy!
Overall, the various budget inn hotels tastings budget inn hotels are a great way to spend some time on a sea day. You will learn a lot from these bartenders; they have a lot to offer! What tasting are you planning on doing on your upcoming cruise?
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GIovanni was amazing at the Amari tasting on the Fantasy last week! We enjoyed it greatly! We also attended the Rum tasting and had a wonderful treat of an Appleton estate 21 year old rum, worth the tasting!
We were fortunate budget inn hotels enough to attend the inaugural Wine and Chocolate Tasting on the Dream a couple of weeks back. It was a very interesting experience. You had the opportunity to see how wine, port, and whiskey tasted with various dark, milk, and white chocolates. I think they are still working out the kinks, but it was a very interesting seminar. Having said that, we still like Mixology the best!!!