Christmas Gifts for Wine & Food Lovers

From amazing hampers to champagne and the latest and best gadgets, here are our top choices for Christmas gifts for foodie friends and family.

Cuisinart Air Fryer Mini Oven

Cuisinart Air Fryer Mini Oven, £250 www.cuisinart.co.uk

The Air Fryer Mini Oven is quick and easy to use and produces golden, crispy, air fried meals, with little or no oil, as a healthier alternative to deep-frying.

With 7 different cooking functions to choose from, it’s so much more than an air fryer. It can also be used to cook perfectly baked treats, delicious roasts, crisp tasty 12” pizzas, expertly grilled meat and fish and evenly cooked toasties and paninis. As well as toast cooked exactly to your preference.

With a super-fast 90 second heat-up time, the Air Fryer Mini Oven is ready to use almost instantly and with its powerful, controlled airflow technology, it cooks 30% faster than a conventional oven, so you can have perfect, evenly cooked dishes made in minutes.

Niederegger marzipan

Niederegger marzipan range www.JohnLewis.com

Delicious gifts for marzipan lovers – from small stocking fillers to gorgeous generous boxes.

KitchenAid Design Series Blossom 4.8L Stand Mixer

KitchenAid Design Series Blossom 4.8L Stand Mixer £749 www.kitchenaid.co.uk

The ultimate gorgeous gift for any keen bakers in the family – and something that will last for years and years to come.

The Mixer Design Series 4.7 L Blossom Artisan is an iconic tilt-head KitchenAid stand mixer in a unique soft thyme green colour with a hammered copper bowl. Its solid design makes it an extension of your hands, allowing you to express yourself with confidence.

The motor is quiet and long lasting and the original planetary action provides fast and thorough mixing, touching the bowl at 59 points per rotation.

This stand mixer comes with a 4.7 L copper bowl with a food-safe stainless steel interior. It will develop its own unique patina over time, or can be polished, depending on your preference. The mixer comes with a solid stainless steel whisk, dough hook, flat beater and pastry beater.

As you develop and grow as a maker, there are lots of exciting optional attachments (sold separately) that you can plug into the multipurpose attachment hub. Choose anything from a pasta cutter to a food grinder, vegetable sheet cutter or grain mill, to unleash your creativity.

Melitta Solo PM Coffee Machine

Melitta Solo PM Coffee Machine www.melitta.co.uk

The perfect luxury gift for any coffee lover you know. This slim fully automatic Caffeo Solo coffee machine focuses on the essentials: pure coffee enjoyment with freshly ground coffee beans. Also gives you minimalist design, compact dimensions and ease of use. Sometimes less is more – more coffee enjoyment and more space. Exlusive to Melitta.

Jacquart 2010 Cuvee Alpha Brut Champagne

Jacquart 2010 Cuvee Alpha Brut Champagne £131

This delightful, elegant champagne is a blend of 60% Chardonnay and 40% Pinot Noir. It’s perfect as a wonderful gift for someone special, or to mark any significant occasion such as Christmas and New Year’s Eve or Day. It’s the ideal champagne for a festive toast of aperitif. You’ll discover notes of lemon, brioche, stone fruits and a hint of honeysuckle.

https://www.thewhiskyexchange.com/p/46847/jacquart-2010-cuvee-alpha-brut-champagne

KitchenAid Steel Core Enamel Covered Casserole 24cm in Empire Red

KitchenAid Steel Core Enamel Covered Casserole 24cm in Empire Red £145 www.amazon.co.uk

Another wonderful gift for any keen chef in the family. This multi-layer enamel casserole pot is made with natural materials, has a non-reactive and acid-resistant cooking surface for optimal taste preservation. It will last and last, crafted with extremely durable scratch and chip resistant German made enamel, and has a steel core providing excellent high heat retention, durable closed stainless steel rim for drip-free pouring and a tempered glass lid for cooking precision. It can be used on all hobs, including induction and is reassuringly made without any PFAS-chemicals, which is much better for your health and for the environment. https://www.kitchenaid.co.uk/

Russell & Atwell fresh chocolates

Russell & Atwell fresh chocolates www.russellandatwell.com

Utterly moorish, once you’ve tried these fresh chocolates, you’ll never crave any others. Keep in the fridge if you don’t eat them all in one go!

Whole Foods Market Wicklein Musical Biscuit Tin

Whole Foods Market Wicklein Musical Biscuit Tin £15.99 www.wholefoodsmarket.co.uk

Whole Foods Market is a treasure trove of delights and inspiration for Christmas. There are so many wonderful products to suit all budgets, from stocking fillers and chocolate treats from under £5 upwards. It really is a one-stop-Christmas-shop.

Piper-Heidsieck Cuvée Brut

Piper-Heidsieck Cuvée Brut www.laithwaites.co.uk

Piper-Heidsieck Cuvée Brut is a Christmas tipple must this year, an emblematic multi-vintage blend sourced from 3 grape varieties: 20% Chardonnay, 50% Pinot Noir and 30% Meunier. With fresh, elegant, and harmonious notes it pairs perfectly with seafood, the ideal accompaniment to oysters, smoked salmon, and lobster. A Champagne like no other, the Piper-Heidsieck Cuvée Brut should be on everyone’s Christmas list: bubbles to create special memories over a jubilant feast.

Journey’s End Cap Classique Brut Reserve

Journey’s End https://vinewhisperer.uk & Noble Green

A fantastic sparkling wine perfect for any special occasion. It’s blend of red and white grapes with notes of citrus, pear, crushed almond and biscuit. Full bodied and well balanced with fresh zestiness due it’s acidity and delicate fruit

London No.1 Gin

The original blue gin for a gin-loving sophisticate. Historically London gins were always a striking blue haze, with the colour generated during in the distillation process. Recognising that colour and flavour enhance the consumer experience, the craftsmen behind London No 1 set about recapturing the essence of London-style gins from yesteryear.

London No.1 is a triple-distilled small batch gin with quality, and more importantly, colour, at the heart. Seventh generation master distiller Charles Maxwell’s renowned knowledge of herbs and spices allowed him to create a complex yet classic gin. Its twelve select botanicals result in a delicate and aromatic spirit, with quality balsamic notes, delicious in a G&T or in a martini.

Bottle RRP £34, available from Amazon,Ocado, Master of Malt, The Drink Shop, Drink Supermarket, Selfridges, Whisky Exchange

Smith & Sinclair Naughty of Nice?

Smith & Sinclair Naughty of Nice? £49.99 www.SmithandSinclair.com

The perfect treat for sweet-loving grown ups. Just make sure you hide them from the kids!

Tracklements Festive Goodies Box

Tracklements Festive Goodies Box RRP £20.70 from www.tracklements.co.uk

A special box of festive condiments – each a perfect accompaniment to any Christmas fare. Trackelments is based in the heart of Wiltshire and make an award-winning range of over 60 artisan condiments, from the UK’s first Wholegrain Mustard to award-winning Fresh Chilli Jam. They are all hand made in small batches with the finest ingredients which come British farmers and spice growers the company knows and trusts from all over the globe.

Mom Rocks Gin

This is the ‘Queen’ of gins. Or for a proper princess! It’s distilled in copper pot stills and made with classic botanicals including juniper, coriander and angelica root.

Amazon – £22.00

Master of Malt – £20.45

Daylesford Fine Christmas Fare

For a wide range of scrumptious hampers to suit all tastes, Daylesford is the place to go. All products are made with the highest quality ingredients and by artisan producers. Daylesford also offer individual items too – so you can create your own luxury foodie gifts, or of course, treat yourself to fine festive fare. The organic Christmas Cake in a Tin is excellent, and they do organic red wine, perfect for Christmas Dinner.

https://www.daylesford.com/shop/hampers_page

The Reid Single Malt Vodka

From the folks over at the Cardrona Distillery in New Zealand comes The Reid, a single malt vodka! Malted barley is milled, mashed, fermented and distilled in a copper pot. Then, it goes through a second distillation in two German column stills before it’s blended with local water and bottled at 44% ABV. The round bottle is beautifully designed too. From Masters of Malt

Melora Manuka Honey

Melora Manuka Honey https://melora.co.uk/

Wonderful as a treat or for its acclaimed healing properties. This Manuka Honey, produced in New Zealand is one of the finest you’ll find. It’s delicious and highly effective with 300+MGO.

Graham Beck Brut

Graham Beck Blanc de Blancs £24 www.Majestic.co.uk

One of our favourite sparkling wines. Bright lime green colour with rich aromas of fresh limes, green apples, pears and lemon zest on the nose. Delicately balanced flavours of succulent citrus, brioche and spice combines with yeasty complexity, broadening the palate with layered textures and leading to a long finish.

Opia Cabernet Sauvignon from Whole Foods Market

Whole Foods Market Opia Cabernet Sauvignon £5.99 wholefoodsmarket.co.uk

A super value organic red which will work wonderfully well with Christmas dinner. Just one of many, many excellent wines from Whole Foods Market – a fantastic place to do all your festive shopping under one roof or online.

Microplane® Master Series Truffle Tool 2in1 Slicer & Grater

Microplane® Master Series Truffle Tool 2in1 Slicer & Grater www.boroughkitchen.com

A super gift for any foodie friend of family member. Microplane is a household name worldwide for its exceptional blades, which grate ingredients without bruising and tearing them – and they will last for years and years.

With a turn of the knob, you can precisely adjust this Truffle Slicer & Grater to cut at your desired thickness. A non-slip base provides stability against the surface of a cutting board when using the grater end, and a notch in the handle allows you to hang it on a rack. The Master Series features the same blades as their popular originals but with Kentucky walnut handles, a homage to their origins as manufacturers of woodworking tools. This tool is not just for truffles, but is also ideal for mushrooms, radishes, hard cheese and chocolate.

Brindisa Hampers

Brindisa Hampers www.brindisa.com

Introduce a little Spanish magic to your Christmas with one of the many wonderful hampers from this fantastic company. All items are made from the finest ingredients and produced by skilled artisan producers. There’s no finer way to enjoy a little Spanish flavour at this festive time of year.

Clarendelle Rouge 2016

Clarendelle, inspired by Haut-Brion, offers wines which embody the subtle balance between savoir-faire and a resolutely contemporary expression of the French art de vivre. Clarendelle Rouge 2016 has notes of red fruit and blackcurrant alongside floral overtones reminiscent of violet. Best paired with all types of classic Christmas roast dishes including beef, lamb, poultry, and nut roasts, it is the ideal accompaniment to a festive feast with all the trimmings!

With a set price of £19.80 and available on Hedonism Wine, it is an affordable luxury perfect for end of year celebrations.

Sipsmith Longon Very Berry Gin

Sipsmith Very Berry A berry twist on the classic G&T £28.50 www.Sipsmith.com

Charles Heidsieck Brut Reserve NV champagne

Charles Heidsieck Brut Reserve NV champagne www.champagnedirect.co.uk & Fortnum & Mason

Charles Heidsieck Brut Reserve NV is a perfect balance of freshness and generosity. To achieve the depth and complexity required by the house style, Charles Heidsieck age their Non-Vintage Brut for three years, much longer than the legal requirement of 15 months.

Microplane Black Sheep Fine Grater

Microplane Black Sheep Fine Grater, RRP £49.95 www.boroughkitchen.com

A wonderful gift any chef in the family will adore and use for years to come. It’s made by Microplane, household name across the world for their exceptional, patented photo-edged blades, which grate ingredients without bruising and tearing.

This multi-purpose extra coarse grater is made of stainless steel with a matt black finish, coated in PVD for a scratch-resistant finish. It has a no-slip rubber base that lets you stand it up at an angle over a plate or cutting board as you finely grate cheese, chocolate, spices, garlic, chilli, and ginger, as well as zest citrus.

The notch in the handle allows you to hang it on a rack. It is dishwasher safe, but repeated exposure to dishwasher chemicals may dull the blades and shorten the lifespan of the product—hand washing is recommended to keep it at its best.

CVNE Cune Cava

CVNE Cune Cava £14.99 www.Majestic.co.uk

Lovely refined and elegant Cava. Creamy with notes of ripe apple and freshly toasted bread

CVNE Cune Reserva

CVNE Cune Reserva 2018 £15.50 www.Waitrose.com

Rich. Warm. Vanilla-spiced. It’s aged in oak barrels for 50% longer than it legally needs to be, giving it more finesse, more coconut spice, more softness

Villa Maria Cellar Selection Pinot Noir 2020

Villa Maria Cellar Selection Pinot Noir 2020 £17.30 www.Waitrose.com

Stylishly crafted from a range of clones planted on selected vineyard sites in the Awatere and Wairau Valleys of Marlborough. Silky complexity has been enhanced by 10 months barrel ageing.

Errazuriz Aconcagua Costa Chardonnay 2019

Errazuriz Aconcagua Costa Chardonnay 2019 £17.50 www.TaurusWines.co.uk

Esporão Quinta do Ameal Loureiro 2020

Esporão Quinta do Ameal Loureiro 2020 £15.10 www.etonvintners.com

Wynns Coonawarra Shiraz

Intense aromas of wild blackberry with distinctive white floral notes. Delicate oak supports the fine palate structure, leaving room for ripe tannins. The finish is drawn out with hints of cedar, nutmeg and fragrant bay leaf. This is a beautifully balanced wine ready to enjoy now or in a few years, paired well with smoky grilled meats and veggies.

Wynns Coonawarra Shiraz 2020 £12 www.simplywinesdirect.uk & www.majestic.co.uk

CVNE Asua Crianza 2018

CVNE Asua Crianza 2018 £12.25 www.Selfridges.com

The wine has a delicious nose of blackberries and blackcurrant , with hints of liquorice

Villa Maria Private Bin Merlot 2020

Hawke’s Bay, New Zealand

£12.49 | www.Waitrose.com

Dark cherry and plum fruit notes mingle with a tad of smokiness. The grapes come from vineyards in Gimblett Gravels and the wine was previously only sold in New Zealand.

Villa Maria Reserve Clifford Bay Sauvignon Blanc 2021

Marlborough, New Zealand

£14.00 | www.Sainsburys.co.uk

Aromatics of lemongrass and jalapeño with flavours of lime and fresh snow peas