ARE IN-FLIGHT WINES GOOD? CEBUPACIFIC WINES | FRENCH 1 WINE REVIEW | REMINISCING TRAVEL ✈🍷
Channel: ZIGGING by Mark Sigg
Date: 2021-04-27

I miss travelling A LOT! Other than watching YouTube and old travel videos, I thought the next best thing would be drinking up these in-flight wines that CebuPacific sell on their flights. LOL! Are these in-flight wines any good? Join me in this video as I taste the "1 Wine" Paul Sapin collection from Pays D'Oc from the larger Languedoc-Rousillon region in France, which CebuPacific serves in-flight at mini bottles of 187ml. 

Now it wouldn't be the first time for me to try these wines. I have bought these wines on board CebuPacific, especially at times I've flown this for long haul or inter-country. As a budget airline, these were of course not free! These wines are sold on board for P250 or roughly 5USD. Whether that's cheap or expensive is largely debatable. By international standards, P250 for a quarter of a bottle of wine is decent since that's a little over one glass. A glass of wine in restaurants would usually cost more! But by Philippine standards, this might be expensive since we can already buy a whole bottle of wine --- probably one from Chile or Australia --- at popular Supermakets such as SM, PureGold, Shopwise, and Robinsons. In terms of value, it's thus a little hard to gauge if this price is "worth it", largely subjective to what currency or "local" prices you might be basing your standards on. Luckily, I found these wines at a great bargain! I didn't have to pay the P250 price tag that CebuPacific sells it in in-flight nor did I have to pay this going rate at Lazada nor Shopee. I have a friend working for CebuPacific and it seems that the airline is selling these to its employees for a bargain of P440 for 6 bottles! With the pandemic in full swing and the travel industry already on its knees, CebuPacific has these wines on surplus. Coming from the travel industry myself, I gladly oblige and help! Buying wine to help is easily the best help I've done in my life.

Regardless of price, what we want to discover in this video would be how these wines actually taste like. Drinking this on board CebuPacific, these have always been pleasing. But I wonder if the wine is actually pleasing or has the moment and excitement of a flight gotten me carried away? LOL! I can still remember drinking these wines in my trips to Singapore and Australia. In fact, I found myself getting carried away reminiscing about these trips! These in-flight wines were always in lieu of something bigger --- an excitement of arriving at a new destination or perhaps coming home from what's just been a new world of experience coming from a trip. So what I've aimed to discover is to see if these wines would be any good without the frills and excitement of a trip. Would these wines be any good on ground at the comforts of my own home? Or would its flavors be found lacking and downright underwhelming?

We are trying out here three different wines from the "1 WINE "collection of Paul Sapin: the first is "a Sauvignon Blanc branded as "1 Blanc"; the second is a blend of Grenache and Cinsaut branded as "1 Rosé" ; and lastly a Merlot branded as "1 Rouge". These wines come in mini plastic bottles with a cup conveniently sealed on as a perfect set up for drinking in-flight. Coming off as CebuPacific's surplus, these are of course as a little dated --- and vintage wine is usually a good thing --- except that in this instance, this wine was made to be consumed right away! And the use of plastic would of course not be the best vessel to be aging wine in. With these circumstances in place, we're proceeding with the wine tasting with a reasonable expectation for these French wines!

Overall, there was not much that I can abstract in terms of flavors on the nose for all three wines.  The use of plastic is of course a big factor! But overall, they have been generally decent wines. They are nothing to write home about nor will they be looking to win awards. But they are respectable table wines. Not a lot of depth with these wines but they are honest and downright simple wines. I have honestly had worst wines before so in terms of their atypical storage and being past its prime, they are thus pleasant surprises. The Sauvignon Blanc doesn't have that fragrance that I really like. But then again, this is a French Sauvignon Blanc from Pays D'Oc and as such, they have a lot of restraint and subtlety as an old world wine.  For the Rosé, it is quite similar to the Sauv Blanc except that it of course exhibits a little bolder fuller flavor as a Rosé. For the Merlot, I would consider this as the best one of the three. On the nose, I could have mistaken it for a Carmenere with green vegetal qualities. The Merlot is a simple but decent red. 

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