Cup of Snarky

There’s an art to buying wine that most people don’t understand. They have a preference for white or red and they may even have a few vineyards and vintages that they know they love. That’s the extent of their knowledge. It can be very intimidating for the average person to have a wine lover on their gift list. The thought of buying an inferior wine or the wrong vintage can install enough anxiety that they give up on the idea of buying wine at all and settle for some other gift.

Giving up is a bad choice. If the desire in giving a gift is to delight a friend or family member, then it is important to give them something that they will love. And wine lovers love wine. In fact, they usually love everything about wine, and that’s where the solutions lies.

Instead of attempting to buy a bottle of wine when they don’t know one label from the next, shoppers can look for wine accessories, novelties, and even items with wine as a design element. A nice cookbook of recipes that use wine or several matching wine bottle caddies are good options. Kitchen items decorated with wine bottles or corkscrews or paintings of vineyards can also bring a smile to the face of a wine lover. And these unique gifts will stand out when everyone else is bringing them wine.