11 JUN 2018: There’s never any question where the wine on a cruise aboard Emerald Liberté comes from: Just look out the window. Every day on the Rhône and Saone Rivers, the complimentary pours served at lunch and dinner were from vineyards so local that you could actually walk off the ship and hike the hills where the grapes were grown.
The same local flavour can be had in the fresh fruits and flavourful vegetables served at mealtimes. On this spring cruise, Liberté’s head chef Teodor Petre and his team were in the farm markets first thing in the morning on each stop to buy vegetables and fruits fresh from the field.
Even the supermarkets bring in high quality vegetables and fresh salad greens daily, the chef notes. “You can tell by the smell when something is fresh picked. In Avignon there is a market right on the dock and we have suppliers who make sure we have the quantities we need.”