For the wine lover you may like to consider one of the superb Vinopolis gift sets this Christmas. Over the past 10 years the company has built a sterling reputation for its famed wine tour and tasting under dramatic Victorian railway arches on London’s Bank End, a short walk from Tate Modern and Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre.
This year the company have compiled a good range of gift sets for most pockets:
Under £50
Try something that little bit different this year. Teach someone about the joy of wine by giving them two tickets to the Vinopolis Grapevine Tour. For just £39, your loved one and a friend can enjoy a ‘How to Taste Wine’ session, five regular wine tastings, a Bombay Sapphire cocktail and a Vinopolis tasting notebook.
Under £60
Treat wine lovers with The Grapevine Vinopolis in a
Box – enjoy two tickets to the Grapevine Tour with five wine tastings and a Bombay Sapphire cocktail, and a bottle of Vinopolis red or white wine to take home.
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There’s a rather special treat for serious seafoodies this Christmas - a £2,500 seafood hamper from premium online fishmonger The Fish Society.
Containing 17 kinds of seafood including 16 inch long giant Siberian crab legs, extra large crab claws from Chile, freshly cooked native UK lobster, four kinds of prawns including monstrous prawns from Madagascar weighing in at half a pound each, assorted more humble but nevertheless crucial shellfish, and as the magnificent centerpiece, 750g of Sevruga caviar - this is by far the most luxurious seafood hamper on the planet.
Called the Caviar & Crustacean Atomic this seafood hamper will feed 30 guests at a cost of £70 per head.
If £2,500 blows your budget for food this Christmas, you may like to consider their Caviar & Crustacean Blowout hamper at £1,500 (around £45 per head).
This is a great idea for a pressie for the discerning wine lover this Christmas - A pair of Fish Hoek Balancé tumblers. They’re handmade from English lead crystal and rather stylish. The glasses actually represent collaboration between South African wine brand, Fish Hoek, and renowned glassmaker, Dartington Crystal.
BUT these are no ordinary wine glasses… they are tumblers for a start for sure, but they boasts a unique rounded base, which encourages the wine to breathe as it is swirled around the glass. Also, eEtched onto the base of the glass, Fish Hoek’s striking fish symbol appears to swim as the glass moves.
An ideal addition to any stylish Christmas stocking, Fish Hoek Balancé glasses are available now, exclusively at www.dartington.co.uk. They are, quite simply, the perfect way to enjoy delicious Fish Hoek wines this Christmas. A pair will cost you £35.
First Class Products is Britain’s exclusive importer of Leroux-Mineau Champagne. Owned and run by the 20yr old Englishman Tom Ellis, who is still at University. First Class Products is a boutique importer of the high quality Grand Cru Champagne that is available to purchase securely from the website www.lmchampagne.co.uk and delivered direct to your door taking the strain out of this years Christmas shopping madness. At these purse-tightening times, First Class Products is able to bring the best quality Grand Cru Champagne to UK consumers at the most affordable of prices, direct to your door. The perfect Christmas gift for 2009!
The current collection consists of single bottles of Blanc De Blancs (£50), Rosé (£60) and Premiere Vintage (£85) all presented in beautifully engraved, Maple gift boxes. In addition, the range is available by the case of six bottles; Blanc De Blancs (£115) or Rosé (£150) and a mixed case consisting of three bottles of each (£132.50), all prices include VAT & free delivery.
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Don’t know your Bordeaux from your Beaujolais? There’s nothing worse than knowing naff all about wine and the waiter coming over and babbling on about ‘this grape and that grape’ and truly not having a clue why he’s getting so excited!
Those days are long gone now that Michael Schuster’s Wine Tasting School has launched offering courses for beginners through to individual tastings. According to Jancis Robinson, his courses are the best in London!
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