When you think of giving California wine gifts, you probably think something like “Hey, I know someone that would love to get tipsy on some quality Red!” Ok, probably not — you’re hopefully a little more respectful than that. But even if you are, California wine gifts do tend to center on the vino a bit more than the veritas. (Look it up.)
Fortunately for the old-stomped-grape-juice lover in all of us, there’s this amazing place in California called Napa. When I was a kid, I always thought of Napa as “that kind of cabbage that’s slightly less gross than the other kind of cabbage.” But now, I know the truth: Napa is the motherland of high-end California wine gifts. There’s also Sonoma, which together with Napa and a few other, less-memorable valleys make up what they call California Wine Country.
The thing that most people don’t realize, however, is that California wine gifts run the gamut from downright snooty to straight classy to maximally chillaxed. There’s something for everyone in (or from) Napa.
Downright Snooty
The downright snooty California wine gifts are the ones that involve either ludicrously expensive wines, complex wine-based machinery like the bottle spinners that pour ice-cold water over a warm bottle and chill it to ice-cold in less than a minute, and so forth. If the wine lover that you’re buying these California wine gifts for is a virtual sommelier, this is the kind of thing they’ll go crazy for.
Straight Classy
Classically classy class comes in the form, most often, of gift baskets. Gift baskets are amazing opportunities to show people how considerate you were in getting someone else to pick a bunch of related and generally pretty cool stuff and stick it in a convenient, reusable wicker container — with cellophane wrapping. California wine gifts in a basket can range from a set of classy, middle-high-end wines to a host of wine-related paraphernalia like Rabbit corkscrews, bottle holders, and such.
Maximally Chillaxed
Chillaxed – adj., transitive, neologism — the state of being both chilled out and relaxed at the same time. When applied to California wine gifts, the term basically means that you know your intended target well enough that you don’t have to get something super fancy. A California wine gift from this category might be a single, high-quality bottle of something they love, or on a more personal level, a gift card good for a dinner at one of Napa Valley’s famous restaurants — assuming you can get there, of course.
Other
Then, there’s the leftovers — you can actually find California wine gifts for people you barely know and don’t want to spend a lot of money on, either. If you know them enough to know that they like wine, a simple Napa Valley Wine of the Month Club membership will expose someone to enough vintages that they’re certain to find a few they enjoy. It’s the gift that says “I know you love wine…so here!”.
Obviously, these are only jumping-off points — inspiration, if you will, to find the perfect California wine gifts for your intended victim; if you still need more help, come visit A Creative Expression — we know California wine gifts like few others!
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