The Cunard Wine Academy is an all sensory experience of wine and food pairing, tastings and producer master classes. The academy runs a variety of courses and each program is personalized for each cruise. They have things such as Lunch and Learn, tutored tastings, fine wine seminars, and wine master classes. The Luxury travel brand Cunard has recently joined forces with the Wine & Spirit Education Trust (WSET), the world’s biggest provider of wine and spirits qualifications, to launch the first WSET certified wine and spirits courses available on its flagship ocean liner Queen Mary 2.
The WSET works with Approved Programme Providers in over 70 different countries to offer their qualifications to wine enthusiasts and industry professionals, ranging from Level 1 to Level 4 Diploma in Wines and Spirits. The courses will be available on Queen Mary 2’s Westbound Transatlantic Crossings and World Voyage Trips. Guests aboard Westbound Transatlantic Crossings from Southampton to New York can attend a five-day course to obtain WSET Level 1 Award in Wines. Guests aboard Round World Voyages Southampton to Cape Town, Cape Town to Fremantle, Hong Kong to Dubai and Dubai to Southampton, can embark on a 12-day course to achieve WSET Level 2 Award in Wine and Spirits. Call Cunard today to climb aboard this amazing experience!