Holiday Wine Bottle Bags as Christmas Gifts

We know why Santa is always in good cheer. Because, in this case, he is a Santa wine bag with a great bottle of wine inside! This time of year is the perfect monent for companies to prepare for holiday gift giving. Wine makes a great gift. Moreover, for those non-drinkers, there is non-alcoholic wine or sparkling cider. A holiday-themed wine bag is a favored way to give gifts in an attractive manner at this time of year. Enjoy finding one that catches your fancy. Mix and match them or keep them all the same. Either way, they are sure to please and it is always nice to get a bottle of superb wine.

Christmas Wine Bags

santa_bottle_bagBesides Santa in many variations, there are other choices for wine bags, which include Gingerbread man, Elf double (holds two bottles), Snowman, Smiling Reindeer, Santa Pants, Polka Dot Jester Hat, and one with Jingle Bells. When giving many gifts, there is the luscious red chalkboard wine bag, with a place to write on a chalkboard surface. Personalization of each bag helps everyone get the correct gift.

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History of the Wooden Lazy Susan

Lazy Susans make it easy to share food amongst diners. There is none of that bothersome passing of dishes back and forth between the guests. Just spin the wooden Lazy Susan to have a serving from the dish of your choice.  Useful and decorative in nature with custom designs that allow for personalization.

History of the Wooden Lazy Susan

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No one knows if there ever was any particular woman named Susan or if she was lazy. The name is descriptive of convenience. The use of the Lazy Susan in America became popular around 1900 as a way to serve food more easily without needing so many servants. The idea was that food served using a Lazy Susan was a more communal experience.

 

Another benefit of using a Lazy Susan was that without a servant nearby, no one except the diners heard the conversations. This allowed completely private discussions while dining together. The ever-practical Henry Ford used a large Lazy Susan when he went camping during the 1920s. In this way, he could bring plenty of guests and take along fewer servants.

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Christmas Wine Accessory Gift Bags

If you’re looking for a great gift for the wine lover in your life, or for the person new to wine appreciation, look no further. It’s a wine-lover’s tool box in a bag, complete with wine-drinking essentials for every pop of the cork.

Wine Gift Bags are a Great Idea for Wine Lovers at Christmas

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This holiday season, think outside the gift basket and give this clear gift bag filled with wine essentials. It lets each person on your gift-giving list see and appreciate your great taste in this culinary art form at first glance. Each clear wine gift bag comes complete with wine aerator, a wine multi-tool- pourer, chiller and stopper all in one, an easy-to-use foil cutter and a wine opener.

 

Better than your average gift basket, this perfectly packaged clear gift bag with a bow is the just-right gift for co-workers, employees, referral sources, or any friend or family member who loves wine.

 

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Wine Barrel Style with Stave Stools

Wine barrel furniture comes in two types, furniture made from reclaimed wood from wine barrels, and furniture designed like wine barrels in term of shapes and colors.  Decorating with a wine barrel theme is a timeless decor dating back into the ages.

 

Recycled Wine Barrels into Wine Tables & Stave Stools

Making furniture from wine barrels is a great way to recycle them, after they are no longer useful for storing wine for aging. Wine barrels come from cooperages, which are special firms with talented artisans who have skills making oak barrels. The oak used comes from dedicated forests in either the Midwest or France.

It takes up to 100 years for an oak tree to grow large enough for use in making wine barrels. Most of the wood used for making wine barrels is over two hundred years old. Only a small portion of the wood from the oak tree makes good wine barrels, because the wood must be free of knots and any imperfections, in order to make strong, watertight barrels.

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Personalized Wine Glasses as Christmas Gifts

To make a gift special – personalize! To make a gift memorable – personalize! To let the gift receiver know you really care about them – personalize!

Every once and awhile there is such a simple, elegant, solution to gift-giving that astounds us.

 

Personalize! Wine Glasses as Holiday Wine Gifts

Personalized Stemless Wine GlassesWhen shopping for a Christmas gift, Hanukkah tribute, gifts for the bridemaids, groomsmen… the best choice is to personalize!

 

Everyone who is a lover of fine wine, loves the bouquet, flavor, and taste. Wine is best served in stunning glassware paying tribute to its’ complexity. When the wine is spectacular, the flavors are sublime with an award-winning quality, the wine glasses should also receive some notice. Hold a fine wine to the light to perceive its clarity and take note to its’ rich color.  Why not make this moment more memorable? This is achieved by personalization of the wine glasses.

 

 

Impress your boss with your refined tastes, celebrate and commemorate a special day such as a wedding anniversary or Christmas to make a remarkable statement of how much you love the person(s) with a gift of personalized wine glasses. Remember that the master Jesus turned water into wine at a wedding celebration, recounted in the Bible, so this is one of the great reasons to give personalized wine glasses as a gift for Christmas.

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There are many other reasons to give personalized wine glasses. The best one is that when they are used, and they will be used many times, the receiver of the gift has a nice remembrance of the gift giver. How many gifts are given, then forgotten? Not so with personalized wine glasses. They are remembered and used for many happy events including toasts to the wonderful future with delightful smiles. They are a gift that can be passed down from generation to generation remembering those who came before us.

Other types of personalized glasses that make great gifts:

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How to Add Corks to a Wine Cork Board?

My cork board making skills are at an experience cork crafters level.  I have an assortment of fabulous pieces of cork wall decor in all shapes and sizes.

You’ll find cork board making instructions online that instruct cork crafters to glue the corks down first while working on filling in their pattern.  I do not recommend this.

How to Fill a Wine Cork Board with Corks?

Pour yourself your first glass of wine and enjoy!  This is no quick project.  The over-sized magazine cork board took 16 hours for cork placement and gluing. If you are short on patience, spread out the project across a few days.  You are creating a lasting piece of art. Don’t rush it!  The following steps are how to make a tight, unique cork pattern that fits well in any shape cork board. Read instructions thoroughly before starting.

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1.) Create a Pattern within the Cork Board Frame

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Presentation is Everything – Promotional Wine Carriers

Bob had a meeting with the Master Chef at a famous restaurant to see if he could get the chef to add the wines he represented to the wine menu. Bob arrived on time for the meeting, sharply dressed, and carrying with him twelve bottles of wine in a beautiful piece of rolling luggage, which displayed the winery’s logo prominently. While Bob and the Master Chef were enjoying samples of Bob’s wines, another wine rep showed up.

 

First Class Presentation with Promotional Wine Carriers

 

This rep apologized for being late, saying he had trouble finding a parking spot, and had to park a long way from the restaurant. He was poorly dressed and carried only two bottles of wine with him. He handed the chef a written list of wines he represents. The chef asked to taste one of them, which he did not have with him, so the poor guy had to go back to his car.

 

By the time he got back, Bob already landed the account and the chef had no more time to see anyone. Presentation is everything.

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This best-selling wine luggage case, with sturdy dual wheels on each side, is a wonderful way to carry a case of wine. Half the sections are adjustable to accommodate bottles of varying sizes. It has a telescoping handle for pulling and strong straps for carrying, by one hand, when necessary. The padded insulation lining is removable, so a full case of wine, in its cardboard box, fits inside. There are plenty of pockets for any other items, like an aerator, corkscrew, a calculator, and pens. A front pouch is large enough to hold a laptop computer and power cord.

 

This classy wine luggage is a favorite for wine or liquor sales representatives and is beautiful when customized with the logo of a winery or company. Shop a variety of promotional wine carriers.

 

When Do You Give Out Groomsmen Gifts?

Groomsmen gifts have a historical significance. This comes from medieval times, when the bride had to be “won.” This meant physically fighting for her, where the groomsmen helped the groom in the fight. Then the bride needed safe transport to the wedding ceremony, while bringing the treasures of her dowry. The original groomsmen fought alongside the groom to win the bride and then served as the bride’s armed escort to make sure the bride arrived at the wedding ceremony with both her virginity and dowry intact. Passage on the roads in those times was rife with danger, so the groomsmen were a necessary security measure.

 

When Do You Give Out Groomsmen Gifts?

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There is no hard fast rule about when to give groomsmen gifts. Most prefer to give them before the wedding. It is probably not such a great idea to give groomsmen gifts at the bachelor party, because if there is plenty of cavorting and drinking and so on, it is likely these groomsmen gifts will be lost in the shuffle. The one exception is, if the groomsmen gifts relate to alcohol use. If they relate to drinking in any way, they find immediate usefulness at a wild, raging bachelor party.

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Reasons for Why NOT to Fill up a Glass of Wine all the Way

Wine GlassesWhen a waiter opens a bottle of wine properly, the waiter shows the patron the label and offers the cork. This allows the patron a chance to determine is if the wine spoiled from a mold, which grows in cork. If this mold is present, it has a distinct odor of mustiness. It ruins the flavor of fine wine.

Next, the waiter offers a small sampling of the wine. The patron swirls the wine in the glass, inhales the bouquet, and takes a sip, to verify any suspicions about moldy flavor and check for the smell and taste of vinegar. Wine sometimes goes bad. In modern times, these problems are a rarity, but they exist in older vintages stored in wine cellars. Read more »

The Art of Serving Wine

Gentlemen who know wine have refined tastes, which are attractive to women. There is probably nothing more romantic than having a candlelit dinner accompanied by fine wine. Nothing sexist implied here, because ladies this goes for you also. There is something incredibly powerful about a woman who knows her wine and pours it with a sense of panache.

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With fine wine, it is not only what wine is served, but also how it is served, which creates the best experience. This is called “the presentation.” Just like masterpiece artwork is on display in elegant buildings instead of some rundown space, fine wine is best, when kept and served in elegant ways.

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