Legacy of Wine: The Atlantic Voyage with Swan Hellenic
Happy New Year! Swan Hellenic presents Legacy of Wine: The Atlantic Voyage – a fantastic cruise in May 2025. Partnering with Champagne Castelnau, this exclusive trip explores Portugal, Spain, and France’s stunning Atlantic coast with a strong focus on wine and Old World wine culture.
Swan Hellenic invites travellers to embark on an extraordinary journey of discovery with Legacy of Wine: The Atlantic Voyage, sailing from Lisbon to Portsmouth from 12–21 May 2025. This exclusive luxury cruise, created in partnership with Champagne Castelnau, explores the historic ports of Portugal, Spain, and France’s Atlantic coasts.
Guests will enjoy cultural highlights, including the Gothic Jerónimos Monastery in Lisbon, the medieval streets of Saint-Malo, and Bilbao’s iconic Guggenheim Museum. Activities range from guided hikes along Brittany’s dramatic Cape Fréhel cliffs to sampling oysters on the Emerald Coast and exploring Mont Saint-Michel.
Wine enthusiasts will join Master of Wine Keith Isaac on a journey through Old World wine culture. The voyage includes guided vineyard tours, expertly curated tastings, and food pairings that highlight the rich traditions and history of winemaking in Portugal, Spain, and France and celebrate the Old World wine culture.
A nine-night Old Worlds Gateway of the Atlantic cruise, departing on 12 May 2025, on SH Diana, costs £6,580 based on two-sharing (with no single supplement). Price includes pre-cruise accommodation, an Oceanview stateroom, all meals onboard plus most drinks, 24-hour room service, self-service laundry, lecture programs by experienced expedition team and guest speakers, one selected shore excursion per port of call, standard Wi-Fi, and onboard gratuities and port taxes.
Swan Hellenic (0207 846 0271, www.swanhellenic.com)
Swan Hellenic –
Swan Hellenic was relaunched in July 2020 to proudly continue the spirit of cultural expedition cruising the company pioneered in the 1950s. Building on its British roots, the new company has a global cultural cruising outlook dedicated to providing guests with the opportunity to see what others don’t.
Swan Hellenic’s purpose-built ships feature elegant Scandi-design interiors, extensive outdoor spaces and dedicated expedition facilities. SH Minerva and SH Vega, two new 5-star Polar Code PC 5 expedition cruise ships with ice-strengthened hulls, launched in December 2021 and July 2022 respectively, each accommodate 152 guests in 76 spacious suites and staterooms, the majority with large balconies. A slightly larger PC 6 ice-class vessel, SH Diana, accommodating 192 guests in the same distinctive comfort and style in 96 staterooms and suites, will be arriving in May 2023.
All three ships feature 3 dining venues – the Swan Restaurant, Club Lounge and Pool Bar & Grill – and are being built in full compliance with SOLAS Safe Return to Port requirements. Dedicated to guests with a passion for adventure and cultural exploration, the company’s meticulously planned itineraries explore the wild landscapes, wildlife, peoples and unique cultures of the world’s less travelled regions.
The crews each include a team of 12 seasoned expedition guides, expert speakers and lecturers, for a total complement of 120 and 140 persons respectively, offering outstanding staff-to-guest ratios to deliver the highest standards of attentive personal service.
Creative and expert partnerships significantly enhance the guest experience. Many of the cruises are also accompanied by world-renowned experts from the SETI Institute, who provide guests with expert insights into the history and latest discoveries in astronomy, astrophysics, astrobiology and planetary science, and the quest to find other forms of life within and beyond our solar system.
Headquartered in Cyprus with offices in London, Dusseldorf, Monaco, Fort Lauderdale (serving the North American market), Hong Kong (serving Greater China, India and South-East Asia), Sydney (serving Australia-New Zealand) and Copenhagen (serving Scandinavia and Iceland), together with a partnership serving Japan, Swan Hellenic supports the travel trade with local specialist partners to provide customers with expert personal service worldwide.
Champagne Castelnau
Defined by a delicate, generous, and distinctive style, and recognized among the ‘Top 100 Master Winemakers 2024,’ guests will explore Castelnau’s renowned collection of cuvées, meticulously crafted through extended aging. From the signature Brut’s layered complexity to the Rosé’s vibrant allure, each pour celebrates Castelnau’s legacy of elegance and finesse.
Keith Isaac
Keith Isaac M. W. of Castelnau Wine Agencies has over 35 years with the company and became a Master of Wine in 1989. Since 1996, he has served as General Manager, sourcing diverse, high-value wines that meet evolving customer needs. He and his team have built partnerships with innovative producers worldwide, focusing on brands that prioritise sustainability and social responsibility.
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