Valentine’s Day has become big business and is certainly a holiday that retailers love. While this affection-driven day is a prime time to shower your special someone with gifts that showcase the extent of your affection, there are plenty of great gift ideas for wine-lovers, in particular, that’ll duly convey your adoration.
Aervana Luxury Wine Aerator
Here’s a gadget that’s designed to help people enjoy wine at its best in an innovative, effective and fun way. The Aervana Luxury Wine Aerator helps people enjoy wine the way winemakers envision. It uses a patented, advanced one-touch process that provides proper aeration with half the effort. It’s reportedly the only wine aerator designed to keep wine sediment in the bottom of the bottle and not in your glass. It also helps reduce tannins, acidity and sulfides and pours a perfect amount of aerated wine with each and every glass — it works especially great with young, tannic red wines. With it, you can say goodbye to messy decanters or aerating time delays. The gadget also boasts a sophisticated, sleek, modern aesthetic, food-safe materials and takes just seconds to use. Pouring is so easy; just press the button for a perfect amount of aerated wine. Cheers! $99.98, Aervana.com.
Hand-Gilded Grapevine Wine Glasses
Entertain your guests in fabulous artisan style with stunning hand-gilded grapevine wine glasses masterfully handcrafted in a third-generation workshop in Verona, Italy. Founder Amedeo, along with his two sons, Valentino and Roberto, transform each wine glass into a work of art — no two glasses will ever be exactly alike. After applying stucco vines and leaves to the glass, a layer of color and gold leaf is added by hand. Once completely dry, each is hand-polished to a gleaming luster. With a large capacity, measuring 8½ inches tall and holding 20 ounces, this wine glass is a truly artful and elegant addition to your wine bar. $70, UnoAllaVolta.com.
Vivajennz Genevieve Wine Purse/Beverage Carrier
Speaking of wine, with this gift you can give someone the gift of freedom to go where they please without the sacrifice of leaving things — and their favorite beverage — behind with this purse designed by Vivajennz. Originally created by a mom to carry her autistic son’s organic juice, anything can go inside the replaceable three-liter BPA-free bag. Forget the heavy and fragile glass bottle and bottle openers. You can carry your liquids of choice without breaking a sweat. There are many different bag styles to choose from, and each has its own secret insulated compartment that holds your drink choice — wine, mixed cocktails, juice, alkaline water…all no problem. Additionally, a portion of each sale is donated to support autism services. $74.98, Vivajennz.com.
Faust Napa Valley Commemorative Graffiti Magnum
Faust Napa Valley Cabernet Sauvignon celebrated its 13th anniversary vintage by partnering with noted New York City graffiti artist known only as Faust. The artist that shares his name with Faust winery is one of the most innovative and influential street artists coming out of the Big Apple today. Faust joined the winery in Napa as its artist in residence, during which time he created this piece. Faust (the wine) seeks to express the complexity of cabernet sauvignon and the diversity of the Napa Valley by sourcing fromestate vineyards in Coombsville and Rutherford, as well as small lots from spectacular mountain AVAs such as Atlas Peak, Mount Veeder and Howell Mountain. The result is an artful, palate-pleasing expression. $110, FaustWine.com.
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Story by Merilee Kern