Just about everything is free on the Regent Seven Seas Explorer, even tours.  However, you can pay more for more expensive alcoholic drinks and even certain meals.  We each paid $179 for a special lunch with expensive wines and fine cuisine.  The menu. It all started with a Kir Royale, followed by a Cloudy Bay Sauvignon Blanc from Malborough, New Zealand.  This is the wine that first made a world impression.  Now most of the really good white ones come from this region of the country.  We had a Tuna/Avocado Poke with this wine. Then another breakthrough wine, a 2016 Chateau Montelena Chardonnay from Napa Valley, California.  The 1973 version in 1976 won the  Paris Judgement , when nine French judges blind tasted white and red wines, and this Napa Valley wine came out with the highest score, red or white.  There was a 2008 film,  Bottle Shock .  The reputation of California wines thereby made a spectacular leap. Served with seared sc...