The Viansa Mediterranean Cruise is currently on a waitlist status. Please contact our office to be placed on the waitlist.

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Program Highlights
  • Cruise hosted by Viansa General Manager, Chris Sebastiani and Winemaker, Meredith Leahy
  • Private onboard events for Viansa guests, including welcome reception, seminars & wine tastings, casual wine hours on select dates and Farewell Toast
  • Winemaker’s dinner served with hand-selected Viansa wines
  • Food & Wine Trails optional wine-themed shore excursions in select port cities and 3-night optional post-cruise Verona land program curated exclusively for Viansa guests
  • Free pre-paid gratuities  and $100 shipboard credit per stateroom early booking bonus
  • Viansa Club Members Exclusive: additional $100 shipboard credit per stateroom
  • Finest Cuisine at Sea, served in a variety of distinctive open-seating restaurants, all at no additional charge
  • Gourmet cuisine curated by world-renowned Master Chef Jacques Pépin
  • Epicurean enrichment programs, including immersive Culinary Discovery tours in select ports
  • Specialty restaurants including Toscana and Polo Grill
  • Free and unlimited soft drinks, bottled water, cappuccino, espresso, teas and juices
Plus

OLife added benefits include:

FREE Unlimited Internet package and your choice per stateroom of:

  • Six (6) FREE Shore Excursions
  • FREE Beverage Package
  • $600 Additional Shipboard Credit
Includes
  • Shipboard accommodations
  • Roundtrip economy class air to Europe & airport/ship transfers (air upgrades available upon request, restrictions apply)
  • Choice of one Oceania Cruises’ O’Life amenity per stateroom
  • All meals & entertainment on ship
  • FREE unlimited soft drinks, cappuccino, espresso, and teas
  • Onboard Wine Education Program featuring Viansa Winery

Food & Wine Trails is pleased to partner with Viansa Winery for a magnificent Mediterranean hosted cruise in 2023.

Hand-selected Viansa wines will be flowing onboard Oceania Cruises newly refurbished ship Nautica during private onboard events, held exclusively for Viansa guests.

Join your hosts, Chris Sebastiani, Meredith Leahy, along with other Viansa key staff members, and discover the best of the Med with like-minded travelers, as you make your way from Rome to Venice.  Immerse yourself in the cultures, cuisine, and regional wines, in Italy, Greece, Croatia, Malta and Montenegro.

Don’t miss this opportunity to sail Europe with Viansa Winery!

Download Viansa Winery Registration Form
  • Cruise Line

    Oceania Cruises

  • Ports of Call

    Rome to Venice

Experts

Chris Sebastiani

General Manager, Viansa

Meredith Leahy

Winemaker, Viansa

Itinerary

Viansa Winery 2023

Destination: Mediterranean
To & From: Rome to Venice
Dates: October 17 – 27, 2023
Length: 10 Days
Ship: NAUTICA

Oct. 17
2023
Rome (Civitavecchia), Italy
Embark
Depart 7:00 PM

F&WT Onboard Event: Welcome Reception 6:00 – 7:00PM in Nautica Lounge

Oct. 18
2023
Sorrento/Capri, Italy
Anchor 7:30 AM
Depart 6:00 PM
Oct. 19
2023
Cruising the Strait of Messina
Oct. 19
2023
Catania, Italy
Arrive 9:00 AM
Depart 7:00 PM

F&WT Optional Catania Shore Excursion: Sicilian Flavors From The Hilltops

Oct. 20
2023
Valletta, Malta
Arrive 7:00 AM
Depart 6:00 PM

F&WT Onboard Event: Winemaker’s Dinner 6:30PM in Toscana

Oct. 21
2023
Cruising the Ionian Sea

F&WT Onboard Event: Wine Tasting Seminar #1, 2:00 – 4:00PM in Toscana

Oct. 22
2023
Igoumenitsa, Greece
Arrive 7:00 AM
Depart 6:00 PM
Oct. 23
2023
Kotor, Montenegro
Anchor 9:00 AM
Depart 9:00 PM
Oct. 24
2023
Korcula, Croatia
Anchor 7:00 AM
Depart 6:00 PM

F&WT Optional Shore Excursion: Discover The Pearls of the Dalmatian Coast

Oct. 25
2023
Split, Croatia
Arrive 7:00 AM
Depart 4:00 PM

F&WT Onboard Event: Wine Tasting Seminar #2, 2:30 – 4:30PM in Toscana

Oct. 26
2023
Venice, Italy
Arrive 10:00 AM
Overnight

F&WT Onboard Event: Farewell Toast 9:00- 10:00AM in Horizon’s

Oct. 27
2023
Venice, Italy
Disembark AM
Oct. 27 - 30
2023
Verona

F&WT Optional 3-night Post-Cruise Land Program: Valpolicella: The Valley of Many Cellars

Per Person Fares - Waitlist Only (Airfare & OLife Included)

Category DescriptionDouble OccupancySingle Occupancy
G - Inside Stateroom$3,799$6,298
F - Inside Stateroom$3,899$6,498
C2 - Deluxe Ocean View$4,299$7,298
C1 - Deluxe Ocean View$4,399$7,498
B2 - Veranda Stateroom$5,399$9,498
B1 - Veranda Stateroom$5,549$9,798
A3 - Concierge Veranda$5,699$10,098
A2 - Concierge Veranda$5,799$10,298
A1 - Concierge Veranda$5,899$10,498
PH3 - Penthouse Suite$6,999$12,698
PH2 - Penthouse Suite$7,199$13,098
PH1 - Penthouse Suite$7,399$13,498

  • Non-use Credits:  For those electing not to use Oceania Cruises’ free air travel included with the price of the cruise, you may deduct $900 per person from the fares shown above.  Guests electing to purchase a “cruise-only” price (opting out of Oceania Cruises’ free air travel and OLife amenities)  you may deduct $1,200 per person from the fares shown above.  Please ask your F&WT Travel Advisor for complete details. (credit amounts are subject to change by the cruise line)

Prices
Prices displayed are per person based on cabin double or single occupancy and include shipboard accommodations, round trip air (see Air terms on Registration Form), transfers between airport & ship on day of embarkation and debarkation only for those participating in Oceania Cruises’ air program, choice of one O’Life amenity per stateroom, onboard meals, all surcharges, government taxes, limited travel management services and private wine program. Prices do not include F&WT optional pre-cruise land program and shore tours, or all items of a personal nature. F&WT reserves the right to correct pricing errors or omissions. Prices will not increase after you make full payment, except for charges resulting from increases in government-imposed taxes, fees or fuel surcharges.

Booking Incentives
Please note that cruise line offered promotions including but not limited to free gratuities, free shore excursions, shipboard credits, and internet packages can be cancelled or discontinued by the cruise line without notice at any time. F&WT includes such promotional offers on this web site in good faith and will remove expired, cancelled or discontinued offers within 24 hours of notification. F&WT will not be financially responsible for expired, cancelled, or discontinued cruise line promotions they in good faith advertise on this web site as valid.

Ask your Travel Consultant about prices for the Owners, Vista and Oceania suites

About the Ship


NAUTICA

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Recently refurbished in 2022, the elegantly charming, Nautica’s lounges, suites and staterooms boast luxurious, residential furnishings and her decks are resplendent in the finest teak, custom stone and tile work. Nautica offers every luxury you may expect on board one of our stylish ships. She features four unique, open-seating restaurants, the Aquamar Spa + Vitality Center, eight lounges and bars, a casino and 333 luxurious suites and chic staterooms, nearly 70% of which feature private verandas. With just 656 guests to pamper, the 400 professionally trained staff ensure you will wait for nothing.

Penthouse

Veranda

Lobby

Grand Dining Room

Toscana

Polo Grill

Terms & Conditions

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    REGISTRATION FORM
    To book a stateroom on this sailing, you must submit a completed registration form with deposit. Request registration form from your travel consultant.

    For PC users the PDF form can be completed online, saved and returned via email to receptionist@foodandwinetrails.com.

    For MAC users, the process for properly filling in and saving a PDF form is slightly different than on a Windows machine. By default, the Mac’s Preview application is set to open all PDF files, but Preview will not save the data you put into the forms. Right-click on the pdf or hold down the Control key on your keyboard and click on it. A menu will appear, select “Open With”. Choose Acrobat Reader from the list of programs. From within Acrobat you will be able to fill in the fields and save the file with your text and submit the completed form via email.

    PAYMENT METHODS
    Include your credit card information on the registration form and FAX to (707) 346-5789

    BOOKING INCENTIVES: Please note that cruise line offered promotions including but not limited to free gratuities, shipboard credits, and internet packages can be cancelled or discontinued by the cruise line without notice at any time. F&WT includes such promotional offers on this web site in good faith and will remove expired, cancelled or discontinued offers within 24 hours of notification. F&WT will not be financially responsible for expired, cancelled, or discontinued cruise line promotions they in good faith advertise on this web site as valid.

    OLIFE PROMOTION
    Standard terms apply. OLife Choice amenities are per stateroom, based on double occupancy and subject to change. Free Internet is one per stateroom; Owner’s, Vista & Oceania Suites receive access for two devices per suite. OLife Choice free shore excursions vary by voyage and exclude Oceania Choice, Oceania Exclusive and Executive Collection. Voyages up to 9 days receive 4 free shore excursions or $400 shipboard credit; 10-12 days receive 6 free shore excursions or $600 shipboard credit; 14+ days receive 8 free shore excursions or $800 shipboard credit. If shore excursion amenity is selected, all excursions must be chosen at least 14 days prior to sailing. Food & Wine Trails optional shore tours do not qualify as Oceania’s OLife Choice free shore excursions. OLife Choice beverage package amenity is House Select. Guests in the same stateroom must choose the same OLife Choice amenity and amenity must be chosen by final payment. Not all promotions are combinable.

    PREMIUM ECONOMY AIR UPGRADE
    Limited time offer maybe withdrawn at anytime or increase in price without notice by Oceania Cruises. Premium Economy air upgrade only available when air is purchased through Oceania Cruises.  It applies to intercontinental flights only and is priced per person, each way on select voyages from select gateways, open to al categories for Europe embark and disembark ports only and based on availability.  Not available on all carries.

    REQUIRED DOCUMENTATION
    Please note, Oceania Cruises requires that all guests submit a completed Guest Registration Form before final payment can be processed. You can either request a blank OCI Guest Registration Form from your Travel Consultant or submit the information directly to the cruise line on their web site: OCEANIA CRUISES MY ACCOUNT

    TRAVEL INSURANCE
    F&WT strongly recommends the purchase of (Allianz) travel insurance to safeguard your trip investment.

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