Gifting Wine

[Robert.A.Jr]

I like gifting wine, especially champagne as it’s very festive. As most of my friends and colleagues do not share my palate, I like gifting known things like Veuve Cliquot Rose. Not a connoisseur’s champagne, but it’s decent and they know what it is. Just ordered a case for this exact reason. One of my closest friends is a big Cali Cab baller, so I always get him quality, but modern Bordeaux. He loves them, like Pavie, but tends not to shop for them. This year, since he’s a cyclist with an Italian bike with Campgnola components, I’m getting him that “Big” Campagnola corkscrew. I have one, it works really well. For years I was gifting my Dad those horrid 2007 Chateauneuf du Papes that he loves so much, thus killing two birds with one stone. Fortunately for friends and family, I do not gift them my thin and weedy Chinons. I am saving those for my buddy Carlos Delphin.

[Chuck_Miller]

I like to give a gift card for a free boink. After all, who doesn’t like sex? However, I choose my recipients carefully, and make sure the gift card clearly says ‘non-transferrable’.

[Randy_Bowman]

@Ken Strauss

@Randy Bowman

Yep. +1

Wow you own a wine shop and would recommend a gift card!

When I/we give wine, we know or have a very good idea of the recipient’s palate. If I don’t know their palate, I’m not going to give them something they may hate. “Wine store owner gave me shitty wine.” When in doubt, gift certificate to a wine shop or the gift card.

[Dennis_Kanagie]

@Chuck Miller

I like to give a gift card for a free boink. After all, who doesn’t like sex? However, I choose my recipients carefully, and make sure the gift card clearly says ‘non-transferrable’.

PWI?

[Chuck_Miller]

@Dennis Kanagie

@Chuck Miller

I like to give a gift card for a free boink. After all, who doesn’t like sex? However, I choose my recipients carefully, and make sure the gift card clearly says ‘non-transferrable’.

PWI?

Sorry, no. Just a weird sense of humor, which not everyone finds funny. If you do, great. If not, there isn’t much I can do about that.

[Dennis_Kanagie]

@Chuck Miller

@Dennis Kanagie

@Chuck Miller

I like to give a gift card for a free boink. After all, who doesn’t like sex? However, I choose my recipients carefully, and make sure the gift card clearly says ‘non-transferrable’.

PWI?

Sorry, no. Just a weird sense of humor, which not everyone finds funny. If you do, great. If not, there isn’t much I can do about that.

No worries Chuck. I did find it amusing whether posted sober or not.

[e_chin]

@Randy Bowman

When I/we give wine, we know or have a very good idea of the recipient’s palate. If I don’t know their palate, I’m not going to give them something they may hate. “Wine store owner gave me shitty wine.”

Stop gifting Oregon Pinot

[R_Frankel]

Wine is a great gift. For folks I know well I try to tailor to their tastes/interests. For others I just try to give something tasty and representative of a broad style (eg. Oregon Pinot, California Cab) that is generally likable.

[Ralph_Earle]

@Ken Strauss

This is the season for gifts.

What wine makes a great gift?

For me I give various bottles of Turley. I love the wines and I find outside the wine world most have never heard of the wine. Also the unique bottle is always a hit!

As much I hate to give up the wines I love I truly enjoy to give!

What do you give?

[Ralph_Earle]

@Randy Bowman

Not everybody likes Turley. The east coasters see more European wines and could actually be offended by an over-extracted, high octane wine.

Don’t get me wrong, I’d love to have you give me some Turley, that’s in my wheelhouse.

Knowing the palate of the recipient would do wonders for giving the appropriate wine, unless, of course, you’re trying to unload your Turley.

[Ralph_Earle]

@Dan Hammer

If I’m giving wine to someone that doesn’t know anything about this hobby, I give them the Yellowtail that someone brought over. Wines like that are more appreciated than a (fill in the blank).

[Ralph_Earle]

@Ken Strauss

@Corey N.

I generally don’t give wine unless I have at least a vague idea about a person’s preferences. If I do, I usually just give a bottle from my cellar that I think they will like. This often works out well, because most often the recipient likes wines that are a bit more fruit forward than I prefer, which means I get to clear cellar space and don’t have to worry about a bottle going to waste, and they get a bottle with some age and generally of a much higher quality than they would buy for themselves. Win-win.

Your comment is one I will jump on. I happen to have a bunch of Australian wines that I fell in love with 10 years ago. My desire to drink them has faded. I will keep the Turley which I love and give the Aussies.

[Ralph_Earle]

@lleichtman

I usually don’t give wines. My friends with serious cellars are too hard to buy anything for and my friends who barely know wine never seem to like much of what I give them though they have been pretty good wines.

[Ralph_Earle]

@Robert Alfert

I like giving wine, especially champagne as it’s very festive. As most of my friends and colleagues do not share my palate, I like gifting known things like Veuve Cliquot Rose. Not a connoisseur’s champagne, but it’s decent and they know what it is. Just ordered a case for this exact reason. One of my closest friends is a big Cali Cab baller, so I always get him quality, but modern Bordeaux. He loves them, like Pavie, but tends not to shop for them. This year, since he’s a cyclist with an Italian bike with Campgnola components, I’m getting him that “Big” Campagnola corkscrew. I have one, it works really well. For years I was giving my Dad those horrid 2007 Chateauneuf du Papes that he loves so much, thus killing two birds with one stone. Fortunately for friends and family, I do not give them my thin and weedy Chinons. I am saving those for my buddy Carlos Delphin.

[Ralph_Earle]

@e chin

@Randy Bowman

When I/we give wine, we know or have a very good idea of the recipient’s palate. If I don’t know their palate, I’m not going to give them something they may hate. “Wine store owner gave me shitty wine.”

Stop giving Oregon Pinot

[Ralph_Earle]

Patrick Henry:
I know not what course others may take; but as for me, Gift me Liberty, or Gift me Death!

Nathan Hale:
I only regret that I have but one life to gift for my country.

Emma Lazarus:
Gift me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, the wretched refuse of your teeming shore….

If you give me something, I will be grateful.

If you gift me something, I will be polite.

[AndrewH]

@Chris Seiber

[Jay_Miller]

Language. The gift that keeps on giving.

[Dennis_Kanagie]

Ralph is the Manchurian Berserker. His trigger is the word “gift” instead of the Queen of Diamonds.

[Brian_Tuite]

@Ralph Earle

@e chin

@Randy Bowman

When I/we give wine, we know or have a very good idea of the recipient’s palate. If I don’t know their palate, I’m not going to give them something they may hate. “Wine store owner gave me shitty wine.”

Stop giving Oregon Pinot

It starts with the title.