Things to uncork, things to decant, and even things to keep wine chilled longer
Photo: Kirn Vintage Stock/Getty Images It can be intimidating to find the right gift for a wine lover, especially if you don’t think of yourself as a wine person. But you don’t have to be able to tell the difference between a Beaujolais and a Lambrusco to give a wine gift that’s more elegant than an oversize wine glass and more thoughtful than whatever you first see at the corner store.
$525 at Amazon Buy $525 at Bed Bath & Beyond Buy Best wine decanter Luigi Bormioli Magnifico 35-ounce Decanter with Punt Marissa Copeland, head sommelier at Junoon, suggests a much less expensive decanter, which also happens to be her personal favorite. For those on the hunt for a Riedel dupe, this one costs a fourth of the price of Villafañe’s preferred Riedel O decanter and looks nearly identical.
$20 for 12 at Target Buy Best wine cooler Crate & Barrel Wood Marble Wine Cooler Hughes keeps this marble-and-wood wine cooler chilled at all times and mostly uses it for dining and sipping en plein air in his backyard. It’s also very similar to the beloved and very functional soapstone wine cooler Peter Mondavi Jr., co-proprietor of Charles Krug Winery, received as a gift decades ago.
$15 at Amazon Buy $15 at Amazon Buy Best wine carrier Wine Bag — the Wine Check “There is nothing better than getting to drink wine where it’s from, with the food that it was born to be enjoyed with,” says Alexis Schwartz, sales representative at Brooklyn-based wine importer Zev Rovine Selections. But eventually you have to leave wine country, and that’s a little less painful if you have a way to haul some wine home with you.
$125 at The Durand Buy Best wine server and saver set Vacu Vin Wine Server & Saver Set A Vacu Vin sealer is a sommelier-approved wine stopper that’ll preserve an already-open bottle of wine. “The Vacu Vin system has been around forever for a reason,” says Eric Tschudi, sommelier and head bartender at Shuko in NYC. “While I wouldn’t recommend it for sparkling wines, the included pump gets the wine-killing oxygen out of the bottle and helps keep still wines fresh for days.
$20 at Amazon Buy $20 at Amazon Buy Best thing to set the mood while drinking wine Dripless Taper Candles 12-Inch Tall Another unexpected gift idea for the wine lover in your life came from Schwartz, who likes to give a pack of candles along with a nice bottle of wine. “I love that when they finish the bottle, it can become a candleholder for the tapers, and they can always think back to the memories they made while drinking it,” she says.
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