Wine-Opoly board recreation
£25 Broadly accessible
It wouldn’t be Christmas and not using a board recreation. This wine lover’s spin on traditional Monopoly goals that will help you study when you play. Select both conventional play or a one-hour model.
Wine Folly, Coloration of Wine poster
£29 winefolly.com
Good for wine college students, that is certainly one of a spread of helpful, instructional posters from Wine Folly – and can look good on the kitchen wall, too. The poster units out the hue spectrum and customary nomenclature used to explain a wine’s color, useful for bettering your blind-tasting abilities.
Pink wine-infused salami
US$25 materrawines.com
Straightforward to discover a wine match for this salami, made with Materra Cunat Household Winery’s Midnight Malbec-dominant mix by acclaimed salumieri Incontro Cured. Produce of Napa, impressed by the grasp salumieri of Italy.
Hugh Johnson’s Pocket Wine Guide 2025
£15.99 Mitchell Beazley
It could be pocket-sized, however the newest version of the Decanter columnist’s ebook (now in its forty eighth yr of publication, edited by Margaret Rand) manages to pack in a information to grape varieties, extra growers than ever earlier than, from 45 international locations, the vintages to purchase, cellar and drink, and food-pairing solutions.
Pure stone wine charms
£140 (set of six) joannabuchanan.com
Add a little bit of color to your gathering (and keep away from mixing up glasses) with these tasteful wine charms constituted of the pure druzy stones. For a bit of glitz, particular person gem wine stoppers in numerous colors are additionally accessible, constituted of chunky colored glass.
Official Atari joystick decanter set
£79.99 thumbsup.com
Vital for any Atari fan, this whisky decanter is formed like the unique CX-10 controller from the unique Atari 2600. Comes with two Motion Button glasses that includes the Atari emblem and an identical tray.
Wine bag and cooler set
£38 uashmamauk.com
Made in Tuscany from a washable paper materials, with an Italian-leather carry deal with, this elegant wine service is offered in 11 colors and
three metallics. It’s bundled with a chillable wine cooler that slides into the bag. Add a bottle of wine or Champagne to make the reward much more particular.
Babylonstoren wine membership membership
£100 quarterly store.babylonstoren.com
Members obtain six bottles of the South African property’s high-quality wines every quarter, plus complimentary membership at its stylish UK nation property The Newt in Somerset, legitimate for one yr.
The Durand previous cork remover
US$145 thedurand.com
Planning to open that bottle of 1945 Mouton over Christmas? The Durand wine opener is designed particularly to take away previous and fragile corks entire and undamaged. It combines an ah-so (‘wiggle and twist’) and a conventional corkscrew, utilizing the 2 in tandem to each safe the cork and take away it. It really works flawlessly and is definitely worth the spend. The right reward for the wine collector who thinks they’ve every part.
Rathfinny Cuvée
£26/50cl harveynichols.com
Christmas à deux? Rathfinny’s 2021 Mini Cuvée is the proper dimension to pop in a Christmas stocking – and the proper dimension to serve two. The wine spent 32 months in bottle and is vivid, youthful and fruit-driven in fashion.
FlyWithWine suitcase
From US$290 flywithwine.com or Amazon
We’ve all been there – agonising over whether or not to wrap a bottle of wine in clothes and pack it in your suitcase for the journey residence. Take away the danger with the VinGardeValise, a line of strong suitcases designed with dense foam inserts to guard wine bottles in transit. Accessible in 5, 8 and 12-bottle variations.
Coravin forest inexperienced Timeless Six+ system
£400
Coravin, the wine-preservation system that has revolutionised the best way high-quality wine is served, has pledged to plant a tree for each limited-edition Forest Inexperienced Timeless Six+ system bought on coravin.com in the course of the festive season.
Helen McGinn’s on-line wine course
TV presenter and creator Helen McGinn’s down-to-earth fashion makes studying about wine a breeze. Her wine course consists of 25 bite-sized classes (six hours in complete) and a downloadable workbook.
London wine information
£10.95 ebook outlets, Amazon
Sizzling off the press, An Opinionated Information to Wine London (Hoxton Mini Press) recommends one of the best locations to purchase and drink wine in and round London, that includes 65 wine bars, eating places, outlets and experiences.
Di-Vine spa day at South Lodge
The spotlight of this spa day is a 60-minute Grapevine Face and Physique Glow utilizing merchandise from the upmarket Pelegrims model, which makes small batches of what it calls ‘low-intervention single winery’ skincare, incorporating grape extracts from English vineyards. A glass of Ridgeview English fizz provides to the wine-themed expertise.
Water and wine puzzles
UK and US shops on-line. £39 waterandwines.com
Discover the world of wine by way of puzzles – and do one thing good on the identical time. Water & Wines crops a tree for each puzzle bought and makes a donation to enhance international entry to protected ingesting water. The colorful puzzles within the massive vary are created by sommeliers and have international locations and areas together with California, Bordeaux, Champagne, France, Spain and Italy.
Wine Society Rhône and paté
The Wine Society has an amazing choice of presents, together with this winter warming set: a bottle of Guigal’s Côte du Rhône 2020, wild boar paté, piquillo pepper marmalade and fig and sultana crackers. Yum.
Haut-Batailley leather-based bottle holder
£270 millesima.com
This luxurious leather-based holder, crafted by Bordeaux’s De Grimm, comes with two bottles from the 2018 classic: Château Haut-Batailley’s grand vin and its second wine, Haut-Batailley Verso. Elegant and practical, and accessible completely by way of Millésima.
Decanter Premium subscription
£99 decanter.com
Shock the wine connoisseur in your life with a yr’s subscription to Decanter Premium on-line. Provides limitless entry to evaluations, unique day by day articles, professional suggestions, precedence reserving for occasions and the Premium app.
Bouchaine vineyards Vine to Vessel tasting expertise
US$120 bouchaine.com
For wine geeks and curious connoisseurs, Bouchaine’s instructional Vine to Vessel tasting expertise sees guests to the Napa wine property evaluate and distinction wines aged in concrete eggs, massive French oak casks, acacia barrels and clay amphorae to raised perceive how a lot a vessel impacts a wine’s aroma and flavour.
Veuve Clicquot Rosé with cooler
£75 johnlewis.com
Made completely from tin (infinitely recyclable), this cooler will maintain your bottle of Veuve Clicquot Rosé NV chilly for as much as two hours – excellent for picnic climate, and even for transporting your bubbly to the subsequent dinner engagement in your diary.
Kelli White Wine Assured ebook
£25 Académie du Vin Library or Amazon
The subtitle of this ebook by US author Kelli White is ‘There’s no incorrect approach to take pleasure in wine’. Decanter’s Andrew Jefford charges it, saying, ‘By the top, you’ll have all of the instruments you could maximise wine pleasure, whereas minimising wine stress.’
Pure wine hampers
£159 oranj.co.uk
London-based pure wine specialist Oranj is providing wine hampers which can be a world away from the normal choices you often come throughout at the moment of yr. Its Deluxe Hamper incorporates six bottles from France, Germany and Spain: a glowing wine from the Loire, a German Riesling, a Spanish orange wine, reds from Alsace and Vaucluse, and a candy wine from Jurançon.
Cognac and Caviar pairing expertise
From £380 caviarhouse-prunier.co.uk (‘Occasions & Experiences’)
Push the boat out at London’s Caviar Home & Prunier, in Piccadilly, with its gourmand Louis XIII Cognac & Caviar Pairing Expertise. Friends will probably be handled to a glass of the superior Louis XIII cognac paired with a alternative of unique Beluga or Oscietra caviar, accompanied by conventional garnishes.
Hand-illustrated French wine maps
Elegantly drawn maps of a few of France’s most celebrated wine areas – excellent for the kitchen or research wall. Select from 4 designs: Bordeaux, Burgundy, Champagne or Rhône. Offered unframed.
Gladiator wine and coin set
£300 selfridges.com
Movie buffs will love the wine and coin set launched by Mas des Infermières, the Luberon vineyard owned by movie director Ridley Scott. Marking the discharge of Gladiator 2, the Imperatores Assortment features a magnum of the Imperatores cuvée (a choice of the property’s oldest Syrah vines with 10% Grenache). This will probably be certainly one of simply 100 numbered magnums available for purchase within the UK, offered in a luxurious field, full with a commemorative card hand-signed by the legendary director together with a prop Roman coin from the movie.
Blind tasting recreation equipment
The right equipment for blind-tasting video games – select your individual wines and themes. Contains three bottle covers, 100 tasting notice sheets, 30 rating sheets, six pencils and a wipeable wine glass pen.
Seated cheese & wine tasting
From £40 lafromagerie.co.uk
La Fromagerie is among the UK’s high names in cheese. Take pleasure in scrumptious seasonal cheeses, accompanied by the proper wine pairings, in certainly one of its three London shops. Bespoke choices accessible.
Sherry En Rama and olives reward set
£17.50-£25 Broadly accessible
The right aperitif set, this elegant reward features a half-bottle (37.5cl) of Barbadillo’s aged Manzanilla Pasada En Rama de la Pastora Sherry, recognized for its crisp and dry profile, a choice of the foodie’s favorite model Perelló Spanish olives, and a pair of traditional Sherry copitas.
Chocolate & Port tasting pack
£22 Impartial wine retailers, Amazon
The right stocking filler, the Vinte Vinte Chocolate & Port Tasting Pack incorporates 4 expertly curated pairings, that includes 5g Port servings and 25g chocolate bars. Work your method by way of Port types from Taylor’s and Fonseca, with darkish, milk and white chocolate from Vinte Vinte. Scan the QR code contained in the lid for a web-based guided tasting video.
