Total wine delivers!?!?!?
Okay I had to go re-find what I had researched months ago.
Long story short when I booked my flights the early morning flight was a Max 8 and I didn't want to book it because of uncertainty with scheduling so I booked a later flight
Wasn't sure I'd have time to deal with wine.
Fast forward to a few weeks ago and southwest drops fares, Max 8 is gone from the schedule - I get a $36 credit to switch back to the earlier flight i would have preferred now on a different plane. So instead of landing at 4:30 I am landing at 10:30 and now I have time to coordinate a wine drop at the resort.
it's not through total wine direct, it's through instacart. There was a $4 "alcohol fee" but delivery was free. Picked up a couple of interesting sounding zinfandels and now I am thinking that one additional bottle of wine on the ship will be PLENTY - I can try a few other things by the glass or have cocktails (there are some very interesting options by the glass in remy, way more than I'd even pay for a bottle but hey this is my chance.) I guess I was mostly thinking that taking advantage of the sommeliers in the premium restaurants might be the way to go.
Why is this so hard to plan? lol.
I could always just pay the corkage on my own bottles, which I didn't think I would do but also I'm looking at how much drinking I will be doing and I probably do not need to be consuming 2 bottles of wine in my room, on top of 3 tastings (wine, mixology and liquor and chocolate) and two brunches where I will have 1-2 glasses of something, plus something at dinner.
So I THINK what I will do is keep one bottle for room use, bring one bottle to the MDR and just fork over the corkage so I can just enjoy it without having to pre-plan and buy one special bottle on board from one of the premium restaurants to also enjoy in the MDR. Two bottles over 7 days with dinner and a third to keep in the room for other times when I feel like enjoying on my balcony should be plenty. My more expensive bottle of zinfandel is about $35 with tax and fees and and I think a $60 bottle is more like a $20 bottle on the outside? So I am still ahead? Can anyone confirm and reality check my plans? Lol
or maybe this whole post will have been for nothing and I will just enjoy some special things by the glass in Remy and Palo and have one bottle of wine with dinner (sometimes getting cocktails instead) and one for room use! Just adding it all up and it seems like I will spend my whole cruise in a stupor if I don't dial it back, lol.
A "let's have cocktail hour with friends" at home usually involves about a half of a bottle of wine for me and I am pretty blitzed for 2-3 hours on it. So probably a glass at a time is plenty!
Totally get it. I've been interested in the various tastings myself. We'll probably bring a couple of bottles on with us, and knowing my parents, they'll get our table the wine package for MDR. One thought- instead of getting a nice bottle from Remy or Palo, what about bringing a couple of nice bottles from shore? The markup in a normal restaurant is usually somewhat eye-popping. I can only imagine what it is on a cruise ship 
. If you've got the ability, you can probably bring some amazing wine onboard, for what you'd be charged at Remy/Palo.
