Cruising with Wine for Claude & ChatGPT

Planning a river or Mediterranean cruise and asking an AI assistant what to drink in port? Add Cruising with Wine as a connector and your assistant can pull its answers straight from our sommelier-written guides, written by Michele Edington, Certified Sommelier, instead of guessing. Every answer links back to the full guide.

It’s free, read-only, and needs no account or sign-in.

Server address

Remote MCP server (Streamable HTTP, no authentication):

https://cruisingwithwine.com/api/mcp

How to add it

• Claude: Settings → Connectors → Add custom connector, then paste the address above.
• ChatGPT: add it as an app or connector in Developer Mode (paid plans), using the same address.
• Other MCP clients (Gemini CLI, Cursor and others): register it as a remote HTTP server at that address.

Then ask something like “What should I drink in Rüdesheim?”

What it can do

• search_stopsFind a stop guide by city, country, route or free text. Accent-insensitive, so “Rudesheim” finds Rüdesheim.
• get_stop_guideThe sommelier guide for one stop: what to drink, the must-try bottle, food and cheese pairings, signature grapes and time-ashore tips.
• list_riversEvery route covered: European river cruises and Mediterranean routes (Italy, Greek Isles), with countries and wine-stop counts.
• get_river_guideThe stop-by-stop route for one river or Mediterranean route, showing which stops are wine stops.
• get_gift_infoHow gifting the full guide works, with the current price and link.

What’s free and what isn’t

The connector serves the same free guide you can read on the site. The nearby-winery recommendations, sommelier notes, booking links and offline access are part of the paid guide on cruisingwithwine.com and are not available through the connector.

Privacy

The connector is anonymous. We log the request type and a one-way hash of the IP address for each call to keep the service healthy and measure usage. See our privacy policy. Questions or feedback: info@cruisingwithwine.com.