Shopping for Christmas gifts can be a right pain with stressed shoppers everywhere. Let’s be honest, most of us don’t need any more stuff. So, if your giftee likes a bevvy, you’re in luck as most of the shopping can be done online and who wouldn’t enjoy a Christmassy gin or a nice bottle of scotch… I’m also in favour of experiences, give the gift of creating memories.
Below you can find the best boozy Christmas gift ideas. Only thing for you to do is to click the links and place the orders. Christmas made easy! You’re welcome!
Memberships, Subscriptions & Experiences
The Scotch Malt Whisky Society Membership
This membership will give access to the world’s widest selection of single cask whiskies. You can attend to various events and bars and get access to over 20 new bottles each month. There is also an option to tailor each membership with extra gifts, but the starting price for the membership is £85 (one year). Read more about SMWS here, or head over to their website.
Don’t forget to use code SAUCE20 for a £20 (or €20 if you’re in the EU) discount at the checkout (valid until 24th December 2023)!
Craft Gin Club Membership
Choose how many boxes you’d like to gift, the options are one, two, four, six or 12-months. Each box includes a bottle of craft gin, sweet and savoury snacks, a club magazine and tasty mixers. Ideal Christmas gift for a gin lover!
Craft Rum Club Membership
With Craft Rum Club can gift three, six or 12 boxes filled with snacks, mixers, and rum. You can also select the option of spiced rum. Perfect way to explore new rums!
Gin & Chocolate Pairing
Crossbill Distillery in Glasgow is now offering gin and chocolate pairing experiences for just £25. This would also make a great pre-Christmas treat with friends.
Drinks in The American Bar
Who doesn’t love a visit to Gleneagles Hotel? Even better when someone else pays the bill! Drinks vouchers start from £40.
Apothecary Experience at Lindores Abbey Distillery
Similar to blending whisky or creating a gin, the Apothecary Experiences are one-of-a-kind workshops, that take you right back to the ancient arts of distillation. Fun and interesting experience at the birthplace of scotch whisky.
Winter Wine Tasting & Mezze Experience
The stunning Bolney Wine Estate in Haywards Heath offers various tasting experiences. With this three-hour experience you’ll get a glass of sparkling wine on arrival, introduction to English wine, tutored tasting of five wines, seasonal mezza board and dessert.
Gin School Experience
1881 Distillery offers a Gin Distiller Experience and it’s the perfect gift for a gin lover. During the 3-hour class they will create and craft their own gin (70cl bottle). To make it extra special, choose an overnight package, which includes stay for 2 at Peebles Hydro with breakfast and pool access.
Gin Tour Experience
Get the perfect gift for any gin enthusiast with Secret Garden Distillery’s exclusive Gin Tour Gift Vouchers. As they grow over 600 different varieties of herbs and plants at the distillery, the experience is like no other.
Cocktail Masterclass at Cotswolds Distillery
This is a multi-award-winning experience. Not only will you learn about cocktail making, you will also sample some distillery exclusive products.
The Gin Spa voucher
The Gin Spa offers various spa experiences, but if you really want to splash the cash, choose the Gin to Your Tonic voucher, which includes two one-hour treatments, G&T and Prosecco afternoon tea for two.
Tasting Sets & Festive Releases
Drinks Distilled Gift Sets
Build your bespoke gift box with Drinks Distilled. You can choose the bottle of spirit, the glassware and the equipment. Or opt for the Espresso Martini gift box.
They also have reusable Christmas crackers which are filled with miniatures, little recipe cards and stainless-steel stirrers.
Edinburgh Gin Story Book
Paradise Found is your personal gin library with 12 individual bottles of different London Dry and flavoured gins.
Glengoyne Whisky & Chocolate Gift Set
Whisky gift pack featuring three of Glengoyne’s single malts, 10-, 12- and 15-Year-Old. Each dram has been matched with three artisan chocolate bars from Coco Chocolatier. Includes an audio guide to complete the tasting experience.
Mulled Gin Liqueur, 20%ABV
Edinburgh Gin has made a delicious liqueur using cinnamon, cloves, orange, number and ginger, alongside the botanicals from their classic Edinburgh Gin.
Cotswolds Cloudy Christmas Gin, 46% ABV
Made with festive botanicals such as cardamom, grapefruit, bay leaf, black pepper and clementine. The gin has several botanicals, which means plenty of oiliness that turns the gin cloudy.
Kirkjuvagr Yuletide Gin, 40%ABV
This Christmassy gin from Orkney Distilling has lovely winter spice notes of cinnamon, nutmeg, and cloves. It also comes in a stunning bottle!
Misty Isle Mulled Christmas Gin, 41.5%ABV
This Christmas Gin is full of festive flavour. All botanicals are soaked in a rich Italian Amarone red wine prior to distilling.
GlenAllachie 15-Year-Old, 46%ABV
This GlenAllachie is predominantly matured in sherry casks, the spirit is bursting with sticky raisins, tangy orange, rich spices and dark chocolate truffles making it ideal Christmas sipper.
Glasgow 1770 Golden Beer Cask Finish
This gift works well for both beer and whisky lovers as the gift box includes both the single malt and a bottle of Innis & Gunn’s PX Finish Golden Beer. Once the beer had its time in the sherry cask, it was emptied and filled with 1770 whisky. A limited-edition release, bottled at 58% ABV.
Other
Hunters Flask with Harris Tweed
Cute flask for outdoorsy people! Choose from several colours. It comes with few cups too.
Small Opera Maison Tumblers
This is my favourite small, heavy based crystal tumbler. It’s an ideal glassware for whisky sipping at home when you don’t want to use a nosing glass.
Kirkjuvagr Orkney Upcycled Tumbler
These are the most beautiful gin glasses you’ll ever see. Handcrafted by Nature Reclaimed using empty bottles from the distillery and they come in various colours. Shop quick as each batch goes fast!
Crystal Whisky Glass
Glencairn glass is possibly the most popular glass amongst whisky drinkers (including mine). Why not treat a whisky lover with a stunning cut crystal glass set or a black blind tasting glass?
Gin A Tasting Course: A Flavour-focused Approach to the World of Gin
Award-winning drinks writer Anthony Gladman explores the story of gin, from ancient uses to its present-day renaissance, offers insight into the unique distillation processes, teaches you to establish and develop your own palate and write your own tasting notes, before guiding you through over 100 of the most exciting gins from across the world.
Gin A Tasting Course features a classic cocktail section and how to make an icon – the G&T – as well as the spirit’s impact on the climate and the ways the industry is changing as a result. It really is a great book for anyone interested in gin.
A Sense of Place
In this beautifully crafted narrative, award-winning writer Dave Broom examines Scotch whisky from the point of view of its terroir – the land, weather, history, craft and culture that feed and enhance the whisky itself. Travelling around his native Scotland and visiting distilleries from Islay and Harris to Orkney and Speyside, Dave explores the whiskies made there and the elements in their distilling, and locality, which make them what they are.
Cask Strength: The Story of the Barrel, the Secret Ingredient in Your Drink
Cask Strength is a fascinating read! Mike has managed to cover every aspect of the life span of a barrel and the many ways it can improve wines and spirits. I enjoyed the way he weaves in stories from the past to explain the history and the importance of a barrel. An informative read for anyone interested in the nitty-gritty of flavours.
Stocking fillers
Custom Whisky Cask Pen
Arbroath based MiaWoodCrafts makes beautiful custom pens from old whisky casks. All wonderfully unique and with an option for a name carving.
Sugar Kelp Aromatic Water
Simply add a few drops of Sugar Kelp Aromatic Water to your Isle of Harris Gin to bring an extra maritime dimension directly to your drink.
Dr. Adam’s Cocktail Bitters
The House of Botanicals Distillery offers a wide range of cocktail bitters that make an ideal stocking filler.
Glass Water Pipette for whisky
Angel’s Share Glass has created stunning water droppers for whisky. Choose from a whisky pot still, an angel, the Kelpies or a thistle top.
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