The Fashionable Wine Gift Basket
The wine gift basket is a very traditional gift but it is also very fashionable at the moment. That is because wine tasting is such a hot past time lately. This is thanks to all of the movies that glamorize wine tasting that have been in the theaters and video stores lately. A good example is the movie “SideKick” starring Thomas Hayden Church and Sandra Oh. It has served to bring wine culture back to the fore.
The Wine Gift Basket is also usually very much appreciated. The great thing about it is appropriate to give to both friends and business associates. It is also suited to many different holidays including weddings, birthdays and special occasion such as Valentine’s Day, Christmas and Thanksgiving.
The only time that the wine gift basket is not a suitable gift in the case where the person has a medical condition or an addiction that prevents them from drinking alcohol. This is a personal detail that you should find out if you are planning to give a wine gift basket to a business associate or a client. Let’s face it; the wine gift basket is not for everyone – especially an alcoholic.
The wine gift basket is going to be very fashion forward as a gift for this holiday season. The typical contents of a traditional wine gift basket are bottles of wine (either red or white or both), crackers, cheese, pate, caviar, chocolates, cheese, cookies and wine glasses. Sometimes the wine gift basket can also include a corkscrew or items such as cheese slicers or decorative wine stoppers. You can have one put together for you or put it together yourself. The ones that have a personal touch tend to be the nicest ones.
If you know that the person you are giving the wine gift basket to is very snotty about wine then you should be selective and get some advice about what to put in the basket. You might also want to get some advice about what kind of food goes best with a gourmet wine. There are some rules of taste that do govern this type of gift.
For instance chocolate is goes better with red wines rather than white wines. Fresh fruit belongs more in a wine gift basket that has white wine. For a different type of wine gift basket try giving gourmet wine such as Ice Wine or Port and add unusual crackers or cookies. Cherries, grapes, peaches, apples and other fruit also compliment ice wine and other dessert wines.
Although it is not exactly wine, the gift basket that contains champagne fits into the wine gift basket category. Champagne goes great with anything exotic including truffle spread and crackers, avocadoes, whipped cream caviar, pate, strawberries, raspberries and chocolate. It is one of the nicest gifts you can give to celebrate an occasion such as the announcement of an engagement, baby’s birth or career promotion.
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