Wine gift baskets are the perfect gift for just about any gift-giving occasion. Unless your recipient is a recovering alcoholic or a teetotaler, a wine gift basket will be a welcome gift that virtually anyone would love to receive. Gourmet wine gift baskets are one of those gifts that you can’t go wrong with.
Wine Gift Basket Ingredients
One of the best things about wine gift baskets is that they can contain almost anything, as long as they include a bottle of wine and a basket. Generally speaking, most gift baskets contain one or two bottles of wine, bread or crackers, and cheese, meat, or other spreads for the crackers. Deluxe wine gift baskets expand on these ingredients and may also include roasted hazelnuts, mandarin oranges, dark chocolate, or smoked salmon.
Make Your Own Wine Gift Basket
Anyone who loves wine and gourmet food and has a flair for creativity should not hesitate to put their own wine gift basket together. Start with a large, deep basket; place one bottle of red and one bottle of white wine in the center. Choose a Chardonnay or Chablis for the white wine. Select a cabernet sauvignon, a pinot noir, or a Merlot for the red wine.
With such a wide variety of crackers available today, it’s easy to find suitable crackers for a wine gift basket. Some cracker bakers focus on the grain in the cracker, offering a whole wheat flavor or an oat or rye undertone. Other cracker bakers include unexpected savory flavors in their products, like a taste of mustard, garlic, olive oil, or herbs.
When to Give a Wine Basket
A wine gift basket makes an appropriate and desired gift for a wedding, a birthday, an anniversary, Valentine’s Day, or Christmas. Any host or hostess will welcome a guest who brings a wine gift basket as a hostess gift when they come to visit. And nothing says “thank you” like a gift of wine and food.
Giving a gift basket is easy and convenient. Online merchants offer gift baskets ranging in price from about $90 for a red wine and chocolate gift basket to about $400 for a deluxe basket containing four bottles of wine. As one might expect, the better the wine, and the more wine in the basket, the more expensive the gift basket will be.
Consider giving a gift basket of crackers, cheese, spreads, and wine the next time you get the urge to honor a special someone with a thoughtful gift.
