London/Southampton Wine Question

[TMLAalum]

Are boxed wines available in either city? If so, where might I purchase some.

 

Since we are permitted to bring one "bottle" of wine aboard Celebrity per person, and I have read on the Celebrity thread that a 2 liter box counts as that bottle (as does the larger size bottle of wine), I would like to bring the largest amount possible onboard for our 2 week cruise. :cool:

[LHT28]

You could maybe contact ODDBINS and see if the stock it I think it is a North American thing

[scrozuk]

There are a few liquor stores in the area, depends on how you're coming into the city.

 

We have an ASDA's supermarket in the centre of town, there's a Tesco as well, but I think you'll pretty much find a boxed wine from pretty much anywhere in the city.

 

If you're staying in Southampton the night before your cruise, let me know where and I'll find out the nearest store for you..

 

ScrozUK

[John Bull]

Are boxed wines available in either city? If so, where might I purchase some.

 

Since we are permitted to bring one "bottle" of wine aboard Celebrity per person, and I have read on the Celebrity thread that a 2 liter box counts as that bottle (as does the larger size bottle of wine), I would like to bring the largest amount possible onboard for our 2 week cruise. :cool:

 

 

As Scrozuk's answer, there are plenty of outlets, but it depends how you're travelling:

- if you use the cruiseline's transfer coach from the airport you will have no opportunity to buy.

- If by scheduled coach, there's an Asda (Walmart) right next to Southampton coach station - one stays with the luggage & the other pops in to buy the wine, then taxi to ship.

- if you travel to Southampton by train the same Asda is your best bet, only a short distance, but with luggage grab a cab at the rail station & have him wait for you at the store before going on to your cruise terminal.

- if you travel to Southampton by car you have a very wide choice, so mebbe find a specialist off-licence or wine shop.

 

Most bottles are 3/4 litre, the larger ones tend to be cheap & very nasty sweet German whites. Most boxed wines are 3 litre, including some very drinkable wines.

:eek:Beware of generic wines from the EC wine lake , and a brand called Piat d'Or which is for the "apprentice" wine-drinker.

In Britain, you will find wines from all over the world.

 

This map might be useful http://www.londontoolkit.com/travel/southampton_cruise_terminal.htm

 

John Bull

[TMLAalum]

Thanks to all who posted. We are not overnighting in Southampton, but will be arriving from London via private transfer. I was thinking that if there was a wine shop near the cruise terminal, I could walk over there preboarding. Otherwise, purchasing the wine in London should be doable.

 

John Bull, what is the EC wine lake?

[John Bull]

 

John Bull, what is the EC wine lake?

 

From the Butter Mountain, you cross the Grain Plain & you reach the Wine Lake :)

 

Excessive production of certain agricultural products due to the crazy EC (European Community) farming subsidies - mainly to inefficient french & italian farmers - and the maintenance of artificially high food prices, resulted in the stock-piling of excess supplies of certain products, especially wine. The poorest stuff is bought-up wholesale at guaranteed prices, hence the subsidy, & transported by tanker. Some is distilled for industrial alcohol, disinfectants, even bio-fuels. But some is sold as remarkably nasty table wine. In the EC, the country of origin of a product has to be declared on the label, and this stuff is labelled "product of more than one country". So stick to wines from a single country, preferably a single region, or of course from a single domain for the very best.

To be fair, we are currently going through a long-overdue re-vamp of farming subsidies, so hopefully the lake will shrink.

 

End of political propaganda, John Bull will now return to cruising mode :D

[lord of the seas]

Are boxed wines available in either city? If so, where might I purchase some.

 

Since we are permitted to bring one "bottle" of wine aboard Celebrity per person, and I have read on the Celebrity thread that a 2 liter box counts as that bottle (as does the larger size bottle of wine), I would like to bring the largest amount possible onboard for our 2 week cruise. :cool:

 

What's wrong with buying wine on the ship.:confused:

[TMLAalum]

What's wrong with buying wine on the ship.:confused:

 

Nothing is wrong with buying wine on the cruise just as nothing is wrong with bringing some aboard to enjoy in our cabin or on the balcony.

 

The plusses of bringing the allowable amount of wine per cruiseline policy are convenience and cost-savings.

 

Being able to pair wine with the meal and to experience a variety of vintages are the positives of purchasing a glass or bottle onboard.

 

For sure, I plan on enjoying wine on our cruise one way and the other!

[jocap]

Even our little corner shops in villages have a good selection of boxes of wine. You should be able to buy in any licenced store-jocap.

[John Bull]

I was thinking that if there was a wine shop near the cruise terminal, I could walk over there preboarding.

 

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You'll probably be berthed at Ocean Terminal, there are no shops at all walkable from the ship, so purchase sometime before you enter the port.

John Bull

[Albert Ross]

I was thinking that if there was a wine shop near the cruise terminal, I could walk over there preboarding.

 

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You'll probably be berthed at Ocean Terminal, there are no shops at all walkable from the ship, so purchase sometime before you enter the port.

John Bull

 

West Quay shopping centre is right across from the ship terminal -it would only be a brisk 15 min walk. There is a Marks and Spencers there - sellers of great selection of wines. Must admit I have never looked for boxes there.

[TMLAalum]

 

West Quay shopping centre is right across from the ship terminal -it would only be a brisk 15 min walk.

 

Thanks, Albert. I could use a brisk 15 minute walk to compensate for all the calories I'll be consuming cruising!

[John Bull]

West Quay shopping centre, M&S etc are across from City Cruise Terminal, but 1 1/4 miles from Ocean Terminal, normally used by Celebrity brands. So check your cruise terminal on http://www.southamptonvts.co.uk/cruise_ship.asp closer to the time

John Bull

[gosport11]

i would wait till 1st port of call as wine in UK in boxs is not the best ;):):)

[John Bull]

i would wait till 1st port of call as wine in UK in boxs is not the best ;):):)

 

 

Ouch, can't agree.:confused:

Since we don't produce wine, we have the best selection of the world's wines in Europe - quality classic wines as well as cheap plonk.:cool:

In Spain, France, Italy etc the selection of foreign wines is abysmal in supermarkets & non-existant in bars & restaurants, they like to protect their own.

But prices are a little heavier in the UK.:eek:

Regards, John Bull

[lord of the seas]

Ouch, can't agree.:confused:

Since we don't produce wine, we have the best selection of the world's wines in Europe - quality classic wines as well as cheap plonk.:cool:

In Spain, France, Italy etc the selection of foreign wines is abysmal in supermarkets & non-existant in bars & restaurants, they like to protect their own.

But prices are a little heavier in the UK.:eek:

Regards, John Bull

 

The UK does produce wine.

do your homework before posting.

It's not that good but there is a wine for every palate.

[John Bull]

The UK does produce wine.

do your homework before posting.

It's not that good but there is a wine for every palate.

 

:D An English wine for every palate ? Don't make me laugh :D

 

Hellfire L/O/T/S, you're being more than a trifle pedantic :D

And so blunt & unneccessarily rude with it too.:)

Don't need to do my homework, worked in an English vineyard :cool:

 

UK production is tiny. About 4 million bottles, over half of which is sold on vineyard tours. French production by contrast is 5 billion. Not too sure how many noughts there are in 5 billion but quite a few more than in 4 million. Keeping brief & to the point on these pages is important to readers, and to my typing finger, so I skipped the irrelevant matter of English wine.

 

But if you want the full SP:

 

Despite a degree of insider knowledge I've never known an English wine to be sold by the box, which is what the OP asked. Wanna hunt the web to prove me wrong??

Nor do we produce wine for every palate. The only commercial wine production in the UK is white. That knocks out way over half the world's palates. So who's the one who didn't do his homework??

Only the odd bottle of red, almost always pinot noir cos no other variety will grow viably in the UK, its just a novelty and its awful. Wanna disagree??

Whites are mainly germanic, Muller-Thurgau, reisling, some gewurtztraminer, etc, and a very very small production of bland sauvignon blanc, and in a good year pretty poor chardonnay. Almost all English wine tastes green, appley, unripe.

 

Good manners in your posting would be more likely to produce a courteous response. Now go off & do your homework. Properly ;)

 

John Bull

[lord of the seas]

John Bull,

I did mean that there is a wine for every palate,not just English wine but all nationalities.

Good to see that your typing finger worked to tell us all that England does produce wine after all.Although as I said,it is not very good.that we agree on.I also think that wine in a box is not that good either.

[Shelledpea]

There is a decent english white & rose doing the rounds in Tesco at the moment called three mills, I drink a lot of spritzers and it rather nice, served it as house wine in the pub for a while before we left and people kept asking if we had any more of that nice rose. only £2.50 a bottle.

 

Asda do boxed wine by Hardy's (Australian)in 3ltr packs, they have banrock stataion # again Australian in 1ltr packs, thier own brands in 1ltr and 3ltr packs, but please avoid country manor it's Perry and it's very very cheap!

 

See the Asda website for more info:

 

http://groceries.asda.com/asda-estore/catalog/sectionpagecontainer.jsp?departmentid=1214921923747

[TMLAalum]

Do you think I'll be able to purchase this type of wine? I have a very large backpack:D!

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[gosport11]

I think a st bernard would help :):):)( they look like fun )

[MrandMrsBeee]

The UK does produce wine.

do your homework before posting.

It's not that good but there is a wine for every palate.

 

I think you should do your homework, England produces excellent award wining wines, many produced in Hampshire. Although I think in bottles and not boxes!

 

http://www.wickhamvineyard.com/

 

Is just one, I could list many more in Hampshire alone.