Christmas Drinks and Food Treats Gift Guide
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At a time when there’s so many parties and get togethers, the Christmas drinks and treats you choose at a celebration, can really elevate the occasion into something super special. But, when we are inundated with so many UK Christmas drinks and snacks – with new or festive variations popping up all over, it can almost feel like there’s too much choice to choose from! With that in mind, I’ve been looking online to find some highlights for Christmas 2022 to serve up or give as gifts.
Best UK Christmas Alcohol to Buy 2022
Christmas Gin Gift Set 2022
With so many gin drinkers now curating their own collections and personal gin shelves at home, a Christmas box set including a festive variety perfect for Christmas cocktails, makes a great gift for gin drinkers this year.
The Secret Garden gin is a great place to start – not only are their gin’s beautifully packaged, offering a variety of gifting options, (the petal garnish especially, is a lovely finishing touch in their miniature set) but the beautiful bottles and packaging are just the beginning. The real star of the show is the gin. All expertly crafted, boasting innovative flavour combinations, the Secret Garden gin range is also made using 100% natural ingredients.
Their botanicals are hand-harvested and dried naturally, to ensure the highest quality and they use botanicals from their Distillery’s award winning Secret Garden, nestled at the foot of the Pentland Hills in Edinburgh. A best seller is their Christmas variety, where cinnamon, ginger and cardamom are blended with juniper, coriander and angelica root to create a gin that is naturally festive. Rich, spicy notes, with a warm depth of flavour, capture the essence of the season. They have lots of different gift sets all available to buy direct from The Secret Garden Distillery Website.
Luxury Gin Christmas Gifts 2022
For lots more luxury gin ideas John Lewis has lots of great gin gifting ideas – click on the images below to be taken to the website to purchase…
Non Alcoholic Spirit Drinks for Christmas 2022
As well as a festive tipple, its also nice sometimes, to have the option of a non alcoholic drink, that feels more special than a normal soft drink. Enter Bax Botanicals, a sophisticated, sustainable organic non alcoholic gin. Beautifully balanced, and traditionally distilled in beaten copper alembics for the purest favour, Bax Botanics offers two non-alcoholic spirits. The award-winning Sea Buckthorn – a subtly spicy non-alcoholic alternative to gin that’s rich, decadent, and bold. While Verbena offers fresh floral notes, with a refreshingly herbaceous profile and a long zingy finish. This one’s for drinkers who like their gin with a citrusy favour. A great Christmas gift or party tipple to offer guests not drinking, they have lots of different products to purchase over on Bax Botanics.
Marks and Spencer’s Christmas Snow Globe Drinks
The gin liqueurs from Marks and Spencer’s are as much of a decorations as they are a drink. The snow globe effect on these bottle gives a magical glow, and looks wonderful all lit up on a dark winters evening. The drink itself is perfect for Christmas cocktails – It makes them easy to make too. There’s no faffing about with lots of ingredients, just add some into a gin and tonic for some extra extra depth and sweetness this Christmas. They also have some lovely gifting options, with lots of different sets to choose from. These are available to buy now and I’d get them sooner rather than later, as the snow globe bottles especially, often sell out quickly.
Personalised Champagne Gifts
It’s always nice to have some bubbles at Christmas and what better way to say Merry Christmas than with Champagne! Say it with Champers is a company that specialises in personalised bottles of Champagne. There are lots of different options for personalisation, including messages, names and special dates and different label designs to choose from.
Not only can you choose your own bespoke bottle, but most importantly its a premium wine inside. Their Champagne is full of character, combining light, fresh, citrus fruit flavours, lively bubbles with a well balanced tangy finish thanks to extended ageing before release.
Opies’ Fruits with Alcohol
Opies’ Fruits with Alcohol are perfect as an inclusion to a home-made hamper, well priced for a stocking filler or can be used as a simple, food treat to enjoy with friends. These iconic globes of luxurious fruits with alcohol have also had a Christmas upgrade with a striking new snow-scape jar design, new for 2022. The Opies Fruits with Alcohol range is available from a number of the big supermarkets plus many independent retailers.
Sugar Free Christmas Sweets
With the sugar overload that often accompanies Christmas, it’s nice to also have some sweet treats handy that are bit healthier. Boka marshmallows are sugar free, dairy free, gluten free and fat free, yet still really yummy to add to Christmas cookies or perfect on top of a festive hot chocolate.
HARIBO Superfan Selection
A favourite with all the family, but what Haribo sweets are your favourites? Haribo have solved this conundrum, with a bumper box crammed with all different types of sweets to try and share this Christmas. The HARIBO Superfan Selection gift box brings together much loved treats Goldbears and Jelly Babies Double Trouble with new favourites Twin Snakes, Soda Twist Z!ng and Sour Sparks.
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