Exclusive Wine Vacations partners with Shawangunk Wine Trail to offer Sail with the Trail Cruise

DATE: June 19, 2006
MEDIA CONTACT: Debbie Gioquindo CTC , 914-474-7780

POUGHKEEPSIE, NY, June 12 2006 - Exclusive Wine Vacations has partnered with the Shawangunk Wine Trail to offer Sail with the Trail Cruise departing New York January 17th 2007 on Holland America's ms Noordam. The cruise will sail round trip to the Caribbean, making stops at the ports of Turks & Caicos; Tortola; St Maarten; St Thomas and Puerto Rico. Prices start at just $1784 per person for this 10 day cruise.

>From Terrior to Taste. Sail with the trail and learn about the Hudson
Valley Wine Region. Follow the tradition of the fine winemaking established by the early French Huguenot settlers who brought their wine making expertise to the Hudson Valley over 300 years ago. There will be special seminars, wine tastings and cocktail receptions.

Seminars to include an Introduction to the Hudson Valley Wine Region, Grape Growing and Wine Making, Wine & Food Paring and Other wine and beverages produced in the region. Guest will be invited to two private cocktail receptions featuring wine from the Shawangunk Wine Trail and light horsdoeuvres. Wine from the Shawangunk Wine Trail will be served at four dinners

Exclusive Wine Vacations is where Wine & Travel Come Together.
Exclusive Wine Vacations specializes in travel to the wine regions of the world. We allow you to indulge yourself in your passion with a unique and personalized vacation of a lifetime! Pamper your taste for fine wines and cuisine, enjoy a luxury cruise and experience culinary creations, great chefs and splendid vintages, visit prestigious wineries, participate in culinary classes in the top gastronomic regions of the world are just of few of what Exclusive Wine Vacations can arrange.

Organized nearly 20 years ago, The Shawangunk Wine Trail offers the most diversity of any wine trail. Located in the Heart of the Hudson Valley. It is home to the third largest winery in the New York, the smallest winery in the New York, the nation's oldest continuously operated winery and America's oldest vineyard. Wines produced in the region range from dry complex wines, to soft fruity wines, to sparkling and outstanding dessert wines.


For more information go to www.exclusivewinevacations.com or www.gunkswine.com