Just because the holidays are over (good riddance?), doesn’t mean you have to stop spoiling yourself and loved ones with great, beverage-focused grabs. Below are some of our favorites from our fall issue! For the full story and to get your own print subscription, go here.
J’Adore Champagne: Who doesn’t adore a little bubbly for the holidays? And why not wrap that adoration in stunning, malleable pewter metal that was once used to dress Napoleon Bonaparte in his revolutionary armor? Since 1710, l’Orfèvrerie d’Anjou has been producing luxurious designs from glamorous candleholders to floral vases and Champagne buckets like the Sosso. A sleek and sexy streamlined sculpture with a wide range of tints, the Sosso champagne bucket offers a beautiful look to a functional sparkling wine chiller but also has the visual appeal to stand solo as artwork. Price: $560-$655 depending on color. || oa-collections.com
Muddle Me This: If you are hosting family at your home this festive season, chances are you might need a fresh, hand-muddled cocktail to take the edge off of your mother’s “constructive criticism.” Fret not, Brooklyn-based husband and wife, Amy Stringer-Mowat and Bill Mowat, design their engrave cocktail muddler to set a positive tone for a perfectly crafted cocktail. Sold in both walnut and maple with a reinforced Corian tip on either end, buyers can pick between a grooved grip handle or round and then add their own personal touch to the sturdy tool with two-three letter engravings. Keep for yourself or stuff in a stocking! $18 || etsy.com/shop/AHeirloom
Tag It and Bag It: Get creative when gifting this winter with the bottle gift tags from Mercantile 12. Handsomely marked labels that range in their impressions from “Oenophile” and “Locavore” to “Vintner,” these gift tags can hang around the neck of a wine bottle for a classed up present to an employer or be fastened onto a more traditionally wrapped gift for a loved one. $18 for set of 8 || mercantile12.com
Read Before You Eat: Resident food lover and longtime Pacific Northwest food and drink writer, Liz Crain, spills all of the details of dining in Portland for locals and visitors alike in the second edition of her book, “Food Lover’s Guide to Portland.” Crain takes the wheel in this “road map to findin the best of the best” in Portland, noting producers, purveyors, restaurants and bakeries as well as covering more than 150 businesses. $17.95 || hawthornebooks.com/catalogue/food-lovers-guide-to-portland
Hours of Cool: Perennially at the forefront of innovative beverage products, Corkcicle is back for more with their Vinnebago bottle. With advanced insulation technology, the Vinnebago is not only a vacuum-sealed bottle for beverages on-the-go but it also has a proprietary third layer of insulation for another coat of encasement to hold the temperature. To use correctly and ensure double-digit hours of hot or cold, pour your bevvie in at the desired temperature, seal the screw cap on and your drink will stay hot for 12 hours and cold for 25. Crack open and use at your leisure, taking a bottle of wine, iced coffee, a hot toddy and more where it couldn’t have gone before—always at the right temp. $29.95 || corkcicle.com/vinnebago
Get Hammered: With Moscow Mule cocktails fully maturing from a raging trend into a bar standard, it seems only appropriate to have the glassware as vintage chic as the drink itself. Although copper has been used for thousands of years in many cultures from Ireland to India for a drinking vessel, it is most synonymous with the Moscow Mule. From Seattle’s True Fabrications comes a new take on one of their hottest products—the Old Kentucky: Moscow Mule Mug. Cheeky, chic and eye-catching, this mug looks much cooler with vodka, ginger beer and lime in it. $29.99 || truefabrications.com
Instabeer: Clear off that dusty instant coffee maker and make way for the instant beer dispenser. SYNEK™ introduces their Original Stainless Steel Draft System—the world’s first beer dispenser that gives the brew connoisseur access to any beer ever made, “freshly tapped on your counter.” The complete package comes with the dispenser, five refillable beer cartridges and tap adaptor. The cartridges can be filled from a keg, direct from a bar or brewery’s tap or even a cask, it is then held in an eco-friendly box with customizable graphics and beer statistics, chilled in the fridge until cold and placed in the dispenser that can pour ale from anywhere there’s a power outlet. The unsurpassable splurge gift for the beer lover in your life, the SYNEK™ draft system is sure to put a smile on that sudsy face. $299 || syneksystem.com
