consider a wine gift basket for a perfect hostess gift!
Vintners and wine merchants are well prepared for the holiday season, knowing that Americans are becoming more familiar with the fine wine market. You’ll find shops both locally and online, with lovely ready made wine gift baskets, bedecked and beribboned to a state of finery which will pass the most persnickety of party hosts’ scrutiny.
If you feel more comfortable talking in person with a knowledgeable wine merchant, you’ll find they are more than willing to educate you on some of the finer points of wine. If you’re familiar with your recipient’s taste in food, you can get a recommendation on what type of wine goes well with, for example, fish or poultry. If you don’t know your host well, a dessert wine is a good choice. Your wine shop expert can make a custom wine gift basket for you on the spot.
Websites which sell wine also yield plenty of information about what they’re selling. Articles, message boards, newsletters, wine trivia and the basic FAQs page can lead you to just the perfect choice. These sites often offer to customize your wine gift basket with whatever wine you desire, with a number of decorative themes to best suit the occasion. wine gift basket you schmuck!
If you’re bringing a wine you intend your host to save for a special tasting, you can give subtle clues, such as wrapping the wine bottle in gold tissue or colored cellophane, before laying the bottle in the wine gift basket. Laying two nice wineglasses inside the basket, on top of the wine bottle, and then wrapping the entire package in cellophane, is a pretty good indication that it’s a gift and that it’s not supposed to be part of dinner!
This wine gift idea works for everyone except those who do not drink
Last modified October 7, 2008Author 2609 > has blogged 27 times
