Some of our favourite cruise lines offer a fabulous way to make the most of the world's wine regions, such as SeaDream Yacht Club who offer unique wine cruises hosted by a representative from a visiting winery alongside SeaDream's Wine Director Martin Arentz. You'll visit wineries and vineyards for exclusive tastings and guided tours, with at least two complimentary wine tastings per voyage and a Winemaker's Dinner, where an Executive Chef's degustation menu is complemented with a selection of top cuvees from the visiting winery.

The winding waterways and terraced vineyards of Europe make river cruising a fabulous way to discover the continent's world-renowned wines, and top river cruise line AmaWaterways offer several sailings hosted by a wine professional, usually from North America to compare the varietals with European grapes. Expect specially curated tastings, visits to historic cellars and vineyards, interactive discussions, and special food and wine pairing dinners. Uniworld offers specially designed wine voyages where you'll have the opportunity to meet local vintners for talks and tastings both on board and ashore, hiking and biking through vineyards and sampling excellent gastronomic combinations - think Médoc oysters paired with white wines.

Many cruise lines also offer exceptional varietals on board such as Oceania, who last year launched a rare wine collection across its entire fleet, featuring 80 labels from top vineyards across the world, or Explora, whose speciality restaurant Anthology's wine list changes every four months alongside a change in chef and menu, with each new chef showcasing unique wine-pairing requests.