There is always room for surprise.
1) A CHRISTMAS EDITION (AND EXCLUSIVE) OF GAME OF MIRRORS
If your gift is a gin and tonic fanatic, this is the perfect present: an exclusive (and Christmas) edition of The London Nº1 Y Game of Mirrors , with an idea developed by Ciszak Dalmas . The industrial design studio presents this project that wants to transmit the spirit of christmas this chic british gin , with the mirror like motif . The mirror has been considered a magical symbol throughout history thanks to its ability to reproduce the reflections of the world, and Game of Mirrors by The London Nº1 "is an optical game , with a kaleidoscopic effect, a handmade and unique design", which will make your present the most different of the night.
The Christmas edition of Game of Mirrors.
2) A PIPER-HEIDSIECK WITH A SURPRISING TRAMPO-LOVE
yes in your house you are more than champagne let yourself fall with this amazing trompe l'oeil containing neither more nor less than a Pipper-Heidsieck Cuvee Brut NV , a gift format that adds surprise and humor to the joy of receiving a great drink like this. Apparently they are three red boxes of decreasing size, stacked and joined by a golden bow. Actually, it hides a ice bucket where to cool the bottle of Pipper-Heidsieck Cuvee Brut NV with which it is delivered. The good: in addition to its flashy red and gold that you will always have results, it can be used over and over again.
Grand Present Bucket includes a bottle of Pipper-Heidsieck Cuvee Brut NV.
RRP: €49 . **Available at Bodega Santa Cecilia **
The red box has a prize.
3) A LIMITED EDITION OF SANTA TERESA RUM + LINDT CHOCOLATES
How happy you are all going to be around the table and after dinner drinking the oldest rum in Venezuela and pairing it (apply the term if you are going to give it to a gourmet) with the best chocolates from the Lindt Excellence range . The present comes in a care case , sober and elegant, with a sealed seal. Inside, a bottle of Rum Santa Teresa 1796 (“reddish amber in color with a fruity and aromatic smell”, experts say), with three selected Lindt chocolates: Flor de Sal, delicious smooth dark chocolate recipe with a touch of salt; 70% cocoa , the best-selling dark chocolate with an intense and balanced aroma on the palate, and Orange , an exquisite combination of soft dark chocolate with almond pieces and candied orange. For the night to end in one very sweet way.
This Christmas object of desire will be available, in a limited edition, in Barcelona and Madrid in Magatzem Escolá and El Economato respectively. RRP: 50 euros
Rum + chocolates = happiness.
4) SIX LOBUNO WINES FROM VIÑA LUPARIA WITH STORY PRESENTATION
If there are children at your table this holiday season, it is clear that they will not be able to drink, but they will be amazed by these bottles: Little Red Riding Hood, Luperca, Pedro, Amarok and other characters hide in a forest that unfolds inside a Christmas box from the Viña Luparia winery. Luparia Vineyard thus gather the six wines from his Manada , and presents them with a "fairy tale" case with which he solves once and for all the tragedy of locating all the wines needed for a Christmas menu . As a gift, it will be a success. There are six wines whose names and images are related through stories starring wolves, two whites, a rosé, a young red and two semi-crianza reds.
Viña Luparia's special Christmas pack is available on the ** Viña Luparia website. RRP €55**
The wolfish wines of Viña Luparia.
5)FRESH CONSENT, AN EXCLUSIVE EARLY HARVEST OIL
the eyes of your beloved fond of good oil They will make chiribitas when they open their gift and they find inside with a container of Fresh Spoiled , a olive oil from the limestone soils of the Baena Denomination of Origin . Freshly pressed and early harvest, Spoiled something more has been expected in 2015 , waiting for the beaked variety to reach its best moment. Picuda, picual and hojiblanca are the three varieties that are involved in this oil that is presented, "like every year, with all the strength of his youth ”, explain the experts.
Consent can now be purchased at consentidoaove.com with a price of €22 the liter bottle. In a few days it is received at home fresh and young. More comfortable impossible.
Re-ga-la-zo.
6) A FAIR TRADE BASKET FROM INTERMON OXFAM
May your gift be gourmet it is not at odds with it being a conscientious gift: Intermon Oxfam offers us this Christmas some lovely baskets , loaded with gourmet and fair trade products that will help improve the quality of life of those who produce them , with a price that fluctuates between 19 and 43 euros. The largest includes: Oxfam Coffee Natural ground Intermon; Organic green tea Oxfam Intermon; 70% BIO dark chocolate bar ; Dark chocolate bar 70% BIO cocoa beans; Chocolate bar with creamy BIO milk; Carmenere red wine from Chile ; Sliced pineapple; BIO hard nougat with almonds ; BIO chocolate nougat with almonds; panettone cake; Dark chocolate truffles 73% BIO ; and a beautiful kaisa basket in shades of denim and jade that will remain as a souvenir.
More information on the Oxfam website.
One of Intermon's Christmas baskets.
7) IBERIAN ACORN-FED BEER AND CHEESE BONBONS
The Cheese Gourmet It is an online store where we will find select items, especially from Extremadura . In addition to the emblematic Casar Cakes (classified as one of the best cheeses in the world), we have been struck by the acorn-fed Iberian beer: a **unique product from Extremadura, produced by Cervezas Cerex** (of course, a brand artisan and family , which also makes cherry and chestnut beer ) . Its aroma is earthy ( “clean and pronounced rustic, with a hint of dark chocolate, tobacco and notes of toasted wood. Strong aroma of wet grass and acorns, the latter intense and mature aroma", says the description), and its taste, " smooth and malty ”. If you combine it with cheese bonbons , made with cheeses from Extremadura, the combination can be memorable . If your honoree has a sweet tooth, try Fig bonbons, made with figs stuffed with truffles and liquor and wrapped in a layer of chocolate . Mouth watering is what we are doing right now.
_Acorn-fed beer (6 units, 15 euros) . Cheese chocolates 8.85 euros. Fig chocolates 27.50, in The Cheese Gourmet _
For your beer gourmet.
8) A BASKET OF CONVENT SWEETS
In that precious shop of sweets and gourmet specialties from convents and monasteries Spaniards that is ** El Jardín del Convento **, they prepare you baskets as you choose. "Us we give away the wooden basket and there is no minimum price; What we do do is advise so that the basket has a good distribution and remains as beautiful and proportionate as possible "he explains to us Isabel Ottino , the creator of it. That your grandmother or your mother (or your father) have a gourmet sweet tooth and this cute basket is for them? Try to put them walnut bites (handmade egg yolk and almond bites, dipped in dark chocolate and topped with a walnut €9.50) ; either kirchetas (small almond and cinnamon sponge cakes, submerged in cognac and Kirch and finally dipped in dark chocolate €8.90); either Orange blossom, rose or jasmine jellies from Seville nuns (€5.10). And as, includes an orange marmalade with ginger , or tangerine with thyme, or pear with cinnamon and cardamom or raspberry and pear with pine nuts €5.75. Unforgettable seems little to say.
_ The Garden of the Convent is at Calle del Cordón, 1, 28005 Madrid. T. 91 541 22 99._*
That's how pretty the baskets make you in El Jardín del Convento.
9) A BASKET OF ECOLOGICAL PRODUCTS
Being a gourmet and having an ecological conscience is not at odds at all: rather the contrary, we find authentic s very healthy healthy delicacies and, in addition, with conscience, produced in orchards and nearby lands. The ecological store Kiva proposes us for these holidays Azimut eco cava (€6.30) and Erramun bio riojas (€4.45) and Ojuel (€5.85); muesli or rice and walnut crackers (€2.45); Moldy goat cheese from Suerte Ampanera (€8.70), **fig bread from the Alpujarra (€2.40)**; chocolate, jijona and marzipan nougat (from €5), **completely handmade (really) Asturian shortbread (€18 half a kilo)**, all organic and delicious (and a danger, because you will want more and more - and it's ugly to eat someone else's gift-) .
*** Kiva has a store at Calle Padilla, 72; in Apodaca, 3, Madrid, and in Calle Real 25, Torrelodones. Orders:** 608 450 415 and 91 309 68 65
Gourmet and eco products, perfect!
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