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If you’re spending Christmas with friends and family this Christmas, you don’t want to leave empty-handed. Whether your hosts are diehard gluttons or they’re belting out this year, thoughtful food and drink gifts are always on point.
If they’re the stylish type, they’ll love the swankiest bottle in town—the Crystal Head Vodka Bottle designed by Joshua Kane. You’ll enjoy a glamorous Fortnum & Mason musical biscuit tin that keeps you paying for it.
If you’re leaving a last-minute gift, we’ve included some voucher options that won’t look like an afterthought.
Please enjoy carefully selected sweets with your eyes and have a delicious Christmas above all.
Limited Edition Crystal Head & Joshua Kane Vodka
Co-founded by actor and musician Dan Aykroyd in 2008, Crystal Head Vodka partnered with British fashion designer and tailor Joshua Kane to develop a line of limited edition bottle casings.
The three designs epitomize the “beautiful and rebellious spirit”, a story shared by both Joshua Kane and Crystal Head Vodka.
The hand-stitched pattern, which just launched this week at Selfridges, took Joshua six months to develop, going through multiple prototype stages due to the challenging dimensions of Crystal Head Vodka’s skull bottle. Composed of Kane’s bespoke fabrics, his quirky patchwork design is limited to 200 pieces and is available in three styles: black and gold, black and red, and black and white.
Kane said of the collaboration that the signature skull bottle represents Rebel and an “affinity with Rebel” that he sympathizes with. “I enjoy pushing boundaries with technology,” he says.
The Joshua Kane design includes a 70cl bottle of Crystal Head Vodka.
From £155 from Selfridges, London Oxford Street, Birmingham, Manchester Trafford, Manchester Exchange Square.
Magnum of Côtes de Provence Miraval Rose
Be that guest – the one who rocks with a chilled magnum of roses. A word of wisdom: Always clear out and cool your refrigerator room before you leave the house. Most people who host Christmas don’t have space for a magnum in their fridge.
Buy at Majestic for £42.99
small box of cheese basket
A great selection of Paxton & Whitfield’s most popular cheeses (hard, soft, blue and goat) paired with vintage Port Fudge and Sea Salt Fudge.
If you want a little more fun, there are plenty of bigger boxes all the way up to £300 plush Buckingham. Or you can visit the beautiful shop on Jermyn Street on SW1 and pick your favorite cheese. It takes your fancy.
Buy from Paxton and Whitfield for £42
Crosstown Christmas Donut Selection
Whether you’re snacking while cooking Christmas dinner or eating mince pies for money, these festive crosstown donuts make delicious presents.
There are three types of boxes. Black Forest finished with chocolate soil and homemade almond praline pieces, vegan-friendly chestnut and brown butter, pear and ginger, the latter topped with prana chai glaze and vanilla and candied stalk ginger crumble.
Bought at Crosstown Donuts for £26.95 for 6.
Negroni
There’s Negroni, and there’s Negroni from one of London’s hottest pasta specialties, Lina Stores. Just great for your loved ones, right? right.
This is the perfect aperitif for foodie fanatics who love to have a bottle of something special under their sleeve in case the occasion for a joint drink arises.
Available at Lina Stores for £34.
Christmas Collection Gin Library
If the giver chooses gin, you can’t go wrong with this huge tasting set of Edinburgh gins.
Contains 12 miniature gins and liqueurs, including lemon and jasmine, rhubarb and ginger, apple and spice, strawberry and pink peppercorn flavors.
Purchased at John Lewis for £60.
Merry-go-round musical biscuit tin
Echo the glamor of the season with this stylish biscuit tin that spins like a merry-go-round and plays La Traviata.
Inside are 7 flavors of biscuits, including salted caramel, pistachio, clotted cream, chocolate and macadamia nut.
Purchased at Fortnum & Mason for £25.
Veuve Clicquot Yellow Label Champagne NV and Smeg Mini Fridge Gift Tin
Got a lot of champagne and no fridge space to store it? That old inconvenience, yeah. Luckily our luxury friend has his 125cl solution.
Why not buy a bottle and a mini refrigerator all in one? After all, you…
Available from Clos19 for £58.
The Whiskey Thing Experience
Held in the new Malt Room at The Distillery in West London, the three-hour Whiskey Thing Experience invites guests to taste a wide variety of barrels from around the world.
You will then be given the chance to blend your own 70cl bottle of unique ‘one by one’ whiskeys to take home and enjoy.
You can book at The Distillery for £122 per person.
Meat and Wine Co E-Gift Voucher
These digital gift cards can be used at all The Meat and Wine Co UK stores, but we encourage you to try the steakhouse’s new winter truffle menu.
From truffle-aged beef tartare, to beautifully crafted burrata topped with shaved truffles, or creamy truffle and porcini mushroom risotto, there is something for every gourmet lover.
Buy from £50 to £500 at The Meat and Wine Co
Kintsugi Workshop
Kintsugi is the Japanese art of carefully repairing broken pottery, highlighting the cracks with gold paint.
These 2 hour workshops are held monthly at Kensal Rise. Indytute provides all the kit you need to bring home a beautiful token of your perseverance.
Purchased at The Indytute for £28.
Jin Institute Experience
Held at The Distillery on Portobello Road, this experience for gin influencers and die-hard G&T purists lasts three hours and includes a guest introduction to the history of the spirit, followed by a tasting by an expert gin instructor. increase.
After this they can blend their own 70cl gin. You can save that exact formula and reorder your custom bottle again and again.
You can book at The Distillery for £120 per person.
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