Christmas Gifts

Make your drink better with bitters. Bitter Union enhances and balances the different flavours in your drink providing an aromatic, bitter twist. With flavour notes of sour cherry, cinnamon and clove with a bitter punch from the gentian root. Works well as an all-round addition to most cocktails such as an Old Fashioned or a Whisky Sour.

Big Easy Cabernet was sourced from the Helderberg region within Stellenbosch, with selected parcels from different coastal regions to complete the blend. The great vintage of 2015 gives the Big Easy Cabernet Sauvignon a slightly more serious side. Rich and elegant with notes of dark chocolate, cinnamon spice and ripe plums fill the glass.

Good depth of ruby colour with a more aromatic nose than previous vintages. The intense, dried cherry perfume is spicy and lifted by a cinnamon and nutmeg note.

Evergreen dwarf shrubs or trailing vines from North America are better known as cranberries. Cranberry shrubs or vines grow in acidic bogs throughout the cooler regions of the northern hemisphere and produce small, very acidulous and slightly tart berries. This Cranberry Liqueur retains the slightly acidulous taste of the fruit.

Crisma is a Cream Liqueur produced at Foursquare Rum Distillery, Barbados. A blend of aged Barbados rum, with cream, vanilla and coffee. "By skilfully blending the finest cream and mature Rum, we are pleased to offer you this delicately flavoured liqueur"

Castellane Rosé has a lovely fruity aroma, with hints of flowers. It is complex and elegant with gentle flavours of strawberry and green fruits such as apple and gooseberries and even a little ripe strawberry on the finish. All this is perfectly balanced with freshness. Terrific value!

The 2017 Wanderer’s Heart is a Cape Red – a wine that is built around the incredible vineyards found all over the Western Cape. The wine’s aromas include tea leaf, dried cranberry, exotic woods, star anise, coriander seed and citrus peel, and a whiff of the apothecary’s chest. On the palate there’s naartjie peel, cloves and damson plums.

Rich with aromatic notes of mulling spices and warming gingerbread. Tonka bean adds flavours of cherry, vanilla and cinnamon. Chestnut flour and toasted ginger root bring a nutty, earthy tone and maple syrup imparts a subtle, woody sweetness, all backed up by traditional juniper and coriander.

In many regions of the world, the ancient practice of field blends is perpetuated today. Some say field blends began in small plots where a mixture of varieties was planted so it became a practice of mixing all the fruit in the vineyard together.

This gin is oranges, fresh orange peel, cocoa powder and real life, no-folling Jaffa Cakes. These guys think this makes literally the best Negroni that mankind has ever seen. Personally, I prefer it with a simple tonic water and a slice of juicy orange. You need to try it and decide for yourself!

Made from two different varieties of cranberries grown primarily in cranberry bogs. The cranberries are juiced and blended with an eaux-de-vie. A small amount of sugar cane is added to balance the tartness of real cranberry flavour. In order to preserve the integrity of flavour and vibrant colour, the liqueur is carefully bottled by hand.

A gin distilled with silky smooth tonka from South America, Iranian orange flowers, cinnamon, orange zest and a little ginger, Kossovo juniper, organic grain spirit.

A cask-strength Islay single malt with notes of sweet fruit, peat smoke and minerality, this is a benchmark Islay whisky and a great everyday peaty dram at this price.

The new Charles Heidsieck is one of the most admired Champagne houses thanks to the unrivalled and consistently high quality of its wines. The current range is one of the most awarded collections of wines in the world. Deliciously fresh wine, coral-like in appearance, with subtle orange reflections reminiscent of roses.

Old gold amber colour. The nose brings notes of spice, liquorice, orange peel and even dried figs. In the mouth, the aromatic strength of this Cognac is exceptional and opens up with notes of hazelnut, walnut, cedar wood then candied fruits. Great length characterises this XO.

A cognac for the connoiseur....each cognac going into the Delamain Vesper X.O Grande Champagne is aged at least 35 years before being blended, at which point it is Limousin oak barrel-aged another two years to 'marry' together, which creates a more dense, rich cognac, with more leather and tobacco notes than the Delamain Pale &amp