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Holiday Gift Guide #3: Wacky Wine Labels
What could possibly be funnier than disguising a good bottle of wine with the false label of something totally horrendous? How about if that totally horrendous label featured lots of poo jokes? That’ll...
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Holiday Gift Guide #4: Vine and Dandy Sandals
When your oenophilia reaches the state in which you just can’t let a moment pass without alerting the world to your devotion to the grape…well, here you are. Devoted, right down to your toes. In the...
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Holiday Gift Guide #5: Wine Barrel Tote
Try as I might, I can’t think of a single circumstance in which I would be willing to use the round barrel wine box pictured at right. It’s designed to contain a single bottle of wine so that you can...
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Holiday Gift Guide #6: Going Both Ways
Can’t decide whether you want a snack or a drink? You’ll get the best of both worlds with wine-flavored popcorn! Comes in a varietal of flavors, from Pink Catawba (“medium bodied, light, crisp,...
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Holiday Gift Guide #7: The Best Gift Basket Ever
I have just one question for the Cadeau Collection: when you’re putting together your top-end gift basket, the one that includes bottles of Chateau Lafite Rothschild, Chateau d’Yquem, Opus One, and a...
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Holiday Gift Guide #8: How To Make Day-Old Wine Even Less Appetizing
The Happy Man wine bottle stopper. Quoting from the catalogue: This cheeky little fellow’s massive appendage is ideally suited to plugging the necks of wine and spirit bottles…Just pull him off when...
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Holiday Gift Guide #9: Passive Aggressive Wine Gifting
Life being complicated, we are occasionally required to give things to people for whom we harbor deep, bitter hostility. In those cases, what we really need is a gift that seems generous but, in the...
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Holiday Gift Guide #10: Not Disposable
We’ve all been to parties where the host thoughtlessly serves wine in the same plastic cups they’re using for beer, right? It just kind of cheapens the whole experience, doesn’t it? When you’re hosting...
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Holiday Gift Guide #11: Come On, Honey, It’ll Be Fun
I know because I, like you, am a wine lover. The beauty and symbolism of the vine…they’re powerful. So powerful, in fact, that we’ve incorporated them into almost every aspect of our lives. It started...
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Holiday Gift Guide #12: Nothing Says ‘Love’ Like a Gift You Make Yourself
Sure, you can take out a loan to buy the wine-lover on your list something really nice, like a fancy $14 wine- aerating gadget. It’ll come in a nice box, have a shiny chrome finish, and look like...
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