I found it on the last day of the five-day 2013 Turner Classic Movies cruise.

I was on my way to meet my husband for the amazing 1927 silent film, “Metropolis,” being shown with live music by the Alloy Orchestra. This was something I was not going to miss – one of my favorite films on a big screen with a terrific score.

With some extra time, I found myself in the Cellar Masters bar area, which serves wine and tapas. Believe me, the only way I hadn’t seen this earlier was because I was working, covering the cruise, the films and the movie stars as part of my job. Otherwise – a wine and tapas bar? Forget the deck chairs, I would have lived here.

It wasn’t just any wine bar. This one worked if you bought Enomatic cards. These small plastic, credit-card-sized tokens have been around for years in different cities, but I’d never used them before. They opened up a world of high-priced wines I had always wanted to taste.

That’s the beauty of the Enomatic system, which puts bottles of wine behind temperature-controlled glass, and lets you pay for one ounce, two ounces or a full glass. Prices here ranged from about $3 for one ounce to $30 for one glass. Put your card in the slot, hold your glass under the spout and press buttons for the kind of wine and amount you want to pay.

Cellar Masters had some bottles in Enomatic machines that weren’t behind glass, but the ones I wanted were the whites and reds (different cases) with names like Far Niente, Oculus, Nuits Saint George. These bottles run between $80-$150 each in a wine store.

This was going to be fun. I charged up a card and started tasting. Working my way down the wine line, with one-ounce pours, I stopped to go see my film, and then returned to the line.

I managed to taste a bit of six good wines, one white and five reds. The white was a 2010 Far Niente Chardonnay, which was very good and started my tasting off on the right tastebuds. The reds: 2004 Domaine de l’Arlot Nuit Saint George 1er Cru, with a strawberry nose and palate; 2009 Giana Zinfandel from the Chiarello Family Vineyards in Napa, a huge, round fruit-forward wine with a smooth taste and lots of dark fruit. Next up, a 2009 Antinori Tignanello from Tuscany, with a 92 rating from Wine Spectator and a big, bold nose, with pepper, leather and dark fruits on the palate.

These reds were right up Bold’s alley. I moved on to the 2009 Far Niente Cabernet Sauvignon, also a Wine Spectator rating of 92, and then to a 2007 Oculus Red Blend. There wasn’t a bad one in that bunch, although they were all very big wines and probably benefited from being opened in the Enomatic cases, because they could breathe. Otherwise, without decanters, this lineup wouldn’t have been fun.

There’s an ongoing conversation in wine-land about whether Enomatic machines give true tastes of the vino they hold. I’ve only had this one experience, and I am glad I got to taste these amazing vintages. I’d do it again.