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Top Wine Gift Sets

admin — Fri, 12 Aug 2011 17:49:59 +0000

Top Wine Gift Sets

Even when there are no holidays on the horizon, did you know that almost half of all wine purchases are gifts? Wine makes a great gift because wine gifts and wine gift sets tend be striking and lavish presents. We all want to give stunning gifts, and wine gifts are suitable for just about every occasion. When you are looking for a great gift, wine gift sets or wine gift baskets tend to be at the top of the gift-giving list. It also helps that great wine gifts are very easy to find online and at great values. The big surprise here is that wine gift baskets in particular are not the only top wine gift anymore. The best selling wine gifts right now are wine with wine accessories; wine glasses gift sets or wine accessories gifts.

Best-selling Wine Gifts

Wine gift baskets full of fruit, cheese, and crackers are not a thing of the past by a long shot, but it is interesting that the more popular wine gifts are wine and wine accessories gifts over wine and food paring. Wine glasses are really the perfect touch. The glasses make a wine gift a complete gift, and the proper wine glasses can upgrade the celebration from regular to exciting. Seriously, does anything kill the mood, favor, or the occasion of enjoying wine faster than serving it in a plastic cup rather than a suitable wine glass?

Best-selling wine gifts at $40 and below

The top wine and glass gift set is champagne with flutes. You can say duh to that one. Champagne goes with everything. It’s like a hand and glove. Birthdays, weddings, thank you, congratulations, is there any occasion that is not made better by a wine gift set? Even if you don’t drink, there are non-alcohol wine gift sets. And if you’re not good at keeping up with important dates, you can order date-specific deliveries and never miss a special date or occasion again.

Best-selling wine gifts between $40-$80

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Wine Accessories – Wine Charms and Aerator Set

admin — Fri, 06 May 2011 18:59:59 +0000

Wine charms are one of the most decorative, simple and useful wine accessories on the market today. You can find wine glass charms in many different shapes, designs and colors, and they are certainly a charming way to keep track of guests wine glasses. Guard your goblets at your next gathering with these glass grape wine charms. The grape shape theme is a nice touch. Being made of glass is another nice feature, and each package contains six wine charms. It’s always best to buy two or three packages to make sure you have a wine charm for all of your guests.

Grape Glass Wine Charms

Using an aerator to improve the taste and flavor of wine continues to gain popularity right now. Aerators are everywhere, and Vinturi is one of the more well known makers. There are red wine aerators and white wine aerators. This six piece wine aerator set includes a red wine aerator, tower arm, tower base, no-splash grate and sediment filter. The curved, acrylic, two-piece tower floats the aerator and secures the wine glass while enhancing the flavor and bouquet of any red wine.

The aerator is a great wine accessory to try. You can use this at a wine tasting and see what your guests think about the difference in the flavor, aroma and bouquet.

Vinturi Aerator Set

Now here’s a wine accessory that every wine lover should have. It’s a beautifully-made, portable, outdoor wine table by Tovolo. It’s made of natural bamboo and measures 8 by 16 by 14 inches. The end cuts securely hold stemmed glassware with plenty of room to hold your snacks. The single leg pushes into the ground easily and provides sturdy support, and the leg can be unscrewed for flat storage and to easily carry to your next outdoor function.

The wind will not blow your wine glass over, and you can adjust the table to just the right height to fit perfectly next to your outdoor lounge chair. This is truly the wine lovers answer to the perfect picnic.

Tovolo Wine Table

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Travel Bar Sets

admin — Sun, 05 Dec 2010 22:55:59 +0000

You don’t see travel bar sets very often. You really have to search them down, but today’s travel sets are very cleverly designed and make your dining experience more enjoyable.

Traveling is always easier when you can pack everything in its place. Take this leather travel bar set. The holidays tend to involve traveling and you really don’t want to go searching for the nearest package store when you arrive at your destination. This travel bar set makes sure you don’t have to because you will have everything you need. It has plenty of room for a standard wine or liquor bottle. It comes with a stainless steel wine corkscrew, ice tongs, stirring stick, and four collapsible stainless steel cocktail glasses. Read more …

DOPP Kit Leather Travel Bar Set

Here’s another travel bar set with a more sturdy case and the ability to shake and serve cocktails. The interior is lined with velvet. It has an insulated section that can hold two bottles. It also comes with 2 martini glasses, a shaker, jigger, tongs, strainer, napkins and more. Read more …

Tantalizing Manhattan Traveling Bar Set

This next travel bar set is for Martini lovers. This is a beautiful bar set. Perfect to give as a gift, it has a very unique look and is handsomely made. The black leatherette travel case is well padded and contains two martini glasses, two olive picks, stainless steel shaker, measuring jigger, round flask, and a flask filling funnel. Read more …

Travel Martini Set

These bar sets pull it all together in a wonderful way. They make a fabulous gift and they help you travel in style.

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Keep Your Wine Chilled From the Refrigerator to the Table

admin — Thu, 05 Aug 2010 18:43:59 +0000

Wine Refrigerator Reviews

If you think using a wine cooler or wine refrigerator is a waste of time, it’s really not. Wines taste best when served at the right temperature. Different wines need different temperatures, and wine coolers are the best way to keep your wines chilled just right and ready to serve.

The best thing about wine coolers these days is that they now come in all different shapes and sizes – some are designed for your tabletop, some for your kitchen counter, and others are full-fledged wine refrigerators.

Tabletop wine coolers are great for keeping wine at the right temperature while you’re serving it – say at parties or picnics. There’s a limit to how long a tabletop wine cooler will keep your bottle ready to serve, but that’s all you really need at social gatherings. If it’s a good bottle of wine, it probably won’t last anyway.

The larger wine refrigerators are useful for collectors who don’t have a wine cellar, and are great at keeping wine at designated temperatures. No one wants to lose a good bottle of wine to humidity or any enviromental fluctuations.

With the wide range of wine coolers and wine refrigerators come different functions. Some wine refrigerators have separate chambers with separate temperature controls so you can store several different kinds of wine all in the same wine refrigerator.

The desires of wine lovers are all over the map, and so are your options when shopping for wine refrigerators and wine coolers. Even the most hard to please wine connoisseur can find the right wine cooler. Here’s just a few that I think are great.

This is the Cooper Cooler Rapid Beverage Chiller, Brushed-Silver. It chills any beverage, not just wine, by rotating and spraying the bottle with cold water. It can chill a bottle of wine from 77 degrees to 43 degrees in minutes. Awesome – Just Awesome!

This is one of those great tabletop wine coolers. It’s the Vacu Win Prestige Stainless-Steel Tabletop Wine Cooler. It can chill your wine in five minutes and keep it chilled for 4 hours.

This is for the serious wine connoisseur. It’s the Haier 18-bottle Dual-Zone Wine Cooler with Touch Screen Controls. Dual chambers make it perfect for red and white wines. This is your modern-day wine cellar.

These are just a few of the many, many great wine coolers and wine refrigerators on available today, and quiet frankly, they just keep getting better and better.

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Holiday Wine Gift Baskets

admin — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 00:16:59 +0000

As the holidays and the season of special occasion’s approaches, an outstanding gift to give is a Gourmet Holiday Wine Gift Basket. Wine makes an excellent gift any time of the year, but wine gift baskets can really put a big smile on someone’s face during the holidays.

Wine gifts give a very special sophistication to the celebration, and wine gift baskets are especially appealing to the recipient. There are many ways to present wine in a gift basket and plenty of useful wine accessories to go with it.

A unique way to let that special someone know you care is to personalize the wine gift basket. Not just with their favorite wines, but you can pair it with their favorite chocolate, cheese, crackers, or gourmet foods to really show them you know what they like. If you are not sure what they like, most wine gift baskets appeal to a wide range of tastes, so you can rarely go wrong. But you can always quiz your wine gift recipient on the sly about what they like and don’t like, so that you can be sure your wine gift basket includes everything they really want. And don’t forget the slew of great wine accessories you can add to the wine gift basket that will show that person that you put a lot of thought and care into choosing their gift.

Wine is also a great gift for an employee to show you appreciate the time and effort they put into their work. A small “thank you” wine and cheese basket makes a nice employee appreciation gift. With so many ways to give a beautiful bottle of wine, you can easily find one that fits the person you are trying to please.

Considering all of the options available in the wine market today, you will be bowled over by all the wine gift choices, and wine gift baskets top the list of best wine gifts. Wine Baskets usually include a bottle of wine of your choice, cheese, gourmet crackers, cashews, chocolates – the options are pretty broad, and you can decide on the number of bottles of wine you want in the basket.

Below are some wine gifts baskets to get you thinking about the kinds of options that are out there. The selection of wine gift baskets gets better and better every year.

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Take the Wine Bar Home

admin — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 00:31:59 +0000

Wine bars are very popular these days. Corks are popping in every major city, large and small, all across the country. Wine bars are a great new trend. Wouldn’t it be great to have a wine bar at home? Now you can with a system that serves the wine just like the professionals.

The Skybar Wine System is a new home wine accessory that chills, pours and preserves your favorite wines all in a single unit. At the press of a button, the bottle is chilled, while vacuum technology naturally preserves your favorite wines for up to 10 days. It gives you the opportunity to savor one perfect glass of wine at a time without worrying about wasting it.

The Skybar Wine System simplifies everything about serving wine, and it is the ultimate entertainment system. Your guests will enjoy the ability to sample wines from your selections, up to three bottles at a time, at the wines perfect serving temperature. The system has several pre-set wine temperatures, so you don’t have to guess. You just set it and let the Skybar do the rest. Each glass of wine will be smoothly poured and kept at the perfect temperature every time. No expensive cartridges, no foreign substances, and not one drop of wine will ever be wasted again.

This is the perfect wine accessory gift for the wine lover who has everything.

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Just Open & Chill

admin — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 14:11:59 +0000

Here’s another great wine accessory; the Oster 4208 Inspire Electric Wine Opener with Wine Chiller.

Yes it’s a great gift, but you really should get one for yourself. When friends come over, it’s nice to be able to keep the wine flowing without having to retreat to the kitchen to chill or open more bottles. This wine set is convenient because it’s portable and goes wherever your party ends up. The thermal stainless-steel wine chiller holds one bottle at a time and keeps it cold for hours. The electric bottle opener removes corks in seconds. No more struggling with cork screw contraptions that resemblance an octopus. Two other top features are that it’s cordless, and the recharging base is included.

The manufacturer claims it can open up to 30 bottles on a single charge. A good feature for commercial use I suppose. What appeals to me is you take any traditional wine bottle, push the button and the wine opener does the rest. It’s as simple as that.

Other highlights include a foil cutter for easy seal removal, a comfortable soft-grip handle, and a sleek modern design. The wine opener measures approximately 4 by 4 by 12 inches and the wine chiller measures approximately 5 by 5 by 9 inches.

Product Reviews – Oster 4208 Inspire Electric Wine Opener with Wine Chiller

“We used this for fun and found out how easy it is to use and how cleanly it removes the cork.” – Fitgerald

“I first saw this wine opener at a friend’s party and was so amazed by it that I have purchased more than 5 for friends, clients and family.” – Gaynard

“No messed up cork screws just a smooth opener. It takes up very little room on the counter and once charged works for quite a few openings.” – Pamela

“I’ve tried all kinds of wine openers. This is the easiest by far.” – Stoll

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Don’t Waste Good Wine

admin — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 13:54:59 +0000

Do you often put off ordering your favorite wine at a restaurant because you know there is no possible way you can finish it? Do you forgo a glass of wine at home because you don’t want to waste good wine by just drinking one glass?

There is no need to waste your fine wines anymore. Order your favorite wine when you’re out dining, and have that glass of Chardonnay, Merlot, of Burgundy even when you know you can’t finish it. Wine Savers make it possible. Wine Savers are one of the best wine accessories even invented.

Use the stainless steel versions. Plastic Wine Savers tend to require a lot more muscle and reviewers say they don’t operate as well. Plastic versions also tend to be white in color and can become stained.

Wine Savers can add 5 to 7 additional days to the life of your wine. There are several reviews of this particular Wine Saver at this link. Scroll down the page and see what others think about the Stainless Steel Wine Saver.

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Wine Cruises – Bon Voyage!

admin — Sat, 08 Aug 2009 01:31:59 +0000

Because of the popularity of wine ever increasing among consumers, the wine cruises are a perfect companion for travelers who are wine connoisseurs and would like to experience a luxury vacation while sampling some of the finest wines in the world. The cruises, which will each have a different winery or wineries as a sponsor, will include 300 to 400 bottles from those wineries for the guests to try and enjoy.

The Denver Wine Guys

admin — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 01:38:59 +0000

Keith Miller and Bryan Criswell are having fun with wine, and are dedicated to providing wine reviews and news. Here’s a link to their latest installment.

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