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Arrowood and Matanzas wineries "crush" their wine-cruise deposits - by $1000 per person.
To celebrate the wine-harvest, Arrowood Winery and Matanzas Creek Winery announce that they have "crushed" (or reduced) the normal $1100 per-person program deposit to $100 for their May 2-14, 2009 "Best of the Sonoma Valley" wine-cruise.
Travelers that book before December 15 will also receive an extra $100 per-cabin onboard cruise credit as well as free prepaid gratuities; which are valued at $240 to $400 depending on the length of the cruise and the cabin location.
The Best of Sonoma Valley cruise includes the normal trappings of a deluxe cruise — gourmet meals, accommodations, nightly entertainment and a deluxe spa — as well as private wine seminars, tastings and a winemaker's dinner, hosted by François Cordesse, Winemaker Matanzas Creek Winery and Heidi von der Mehden, Associate Winemaker, Arrowood Vineyards. In addition, at many of the ports-of-call, optional wine tours and lunches at top wine estates are offered.
Besides the reduced deposit amount, the $100 cabin credit and free prepaid gratuities, this cruise also include free round-trip airfare to Europe. This reduces the per person trip cost to as low as $384 per day — which given the current weakness of the US dollar, is a great deal and far less than a similar length, European land vacation.
Food & Wine Trails (www.foodandwinetrails.com) is the educational tour division of HMS Travel Group, one of America's oldest food and wine travel companies. They recently were named as one of the "World's Top 128 Travel Specialists" by Conde Nast Traveler Magazine, in the category of wine-tourism. The company specializes in creating educational travel programs for the country's top food and wine organizations, and works with such clients as Robert Mondavi, Beringer and Kosta Browne wineries, culinary schools such as the Culinary Institute of America and groups like UC Berkeley and the American Wine Society.
Food & Wine Trails can be contacted at (800) 367-5348 or info@foodandwinetrails.com
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