Giving California Wine Gift Baskets
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California accounts for nearly 90 percent of entire American wine production, if California was a separate country, it would be the world’s fourth-largest wine producer. So, it’s no wonder that a popular gift for special occasions are California wine gift baskets. When you spend the weekend with a good friend or need an excellent gift for an anniversary California wine gift baskets are a good idea to take with you.
What should you bring?
In California wine gift baskets there should be off course some Californian wine, when you don’t know the person you want to give it to that well, it’s nice to include a bottle of red and a bottle of white wine. On the opposite if you know that the recipient of your California wine gift baskets prefers one wine over another, by all means give that person a basket containing only red or only white wine.
With wine, quality is always appreciated over quantity. California wine gift baskets containing just one bottle of wine is an appropriate gift if the bottle is of outstanding quality.
What you fill your wine basket with depends on the kind of wine you give. If you give a mellow red wine, a very simple California wine gift basket would be to give a bottle of wine along with several bars of rich, dark chocolate.
If you give Chardonnay in your wine basket, add savory treats like flavored crackers, cheese, and other spreads. Lightly salted mixed nuts or hazelnuts are a nice counterpart to a sweet wine like a Riesling or rose.
California’s finest
While many Californian winemakers craft wines in more “Old World” or European wine styles, most Californian wines (along with Australia) set the benchmark standards for New World wines. The reliably warm weather allows many wineries to use very ripe fruit which brings up a more fruit forward rather than earthy or minerally style of wine.
Most wineries sell California wine gift baskets in their tasting rooms and gift shops. The easiest way to give California wine gift baskets is not to put one together yourself, but to buy a prepackaged gift basket at one of California’s many wineries.
Clos du Bois, located in the Alexander Valley about an hour’s drive north of San Francisco, offers a wide range of Cabernet, Merlot, Pinot Noir, Shiraz, and Zinfandel wines for lovers of red wines. White wine lovers will appreciate the winery’s Chardonnay, Pinot Grigio, Riesling, and Rose wines.
Clos du Bois offers delightful California wine gift baskets for shipment to states that do not allow shipments of wine. The basket includes four hors d’ouevre plates, olive oil, and a book on cheese.
Sonoma Chardonnay wine gift baskets from California are another gift that is sure to please the recipient, pairing fruity red wine with savory appetizers.
Today there are more than 1,200 wineries in the state, ranging from small boutique wineries to large corporations with distribution across the globe. There will always be a winery that will sell the perfect California wine gift baskets you are looking for.
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