​The popularity of handmade gifts has risen both because of their uniqueness, and because of the craftsmanship and labour of love that goes into creating them. With the holidays fast approaching, we wanted to provide you with some craft winemaking gift inspirations to help you step up your holiday gifting.
The average wine kit makes about 30 bottles of wine, so there are many ways to leverage craft wine for use during the holidays—outside of enjoying with meals, or on its own of course!

​DIY Gift BasketCreate a fully personalized gift basket for that special someone in your life that shows them how thoughtful you are! Along with a bottle or 2 of wine, add a few of their favourite things to the box, whether it’s chocolate, books, candles, makeup, seasonings, etc. Wrap in cellophane and tie on a big ribbon. This is a simple DIY gift that will be sure to delight anyone.

​Craft Winemaking ExperienceWhile a handcrafted gift is special to receive, giving the gift of an experience or an activity also makes for a great gift! So why not give the gift of a craft winemaking experience with a gift certificate so that special someone can make their own wine.

Something exiting for you to try in our store, where you can have your wine barrel aged in our Hungarian oak barrels.  Hungarian oak will impart some wonderful flavours such as coffee, caramel and vanilla.  In a small barrel due to the large surface volume ratio the aging process takes as little as an extra two weeks and your wine is ready to drink.  No need to wait for six months of bottle aging.  Our barrels are suitable for most red wines.

The purpose of a wine glass stem is to provide a place for you to handle the glass and avoid changing the wine's temperature.  You should hold a wine glass by its stem so white wines stay cool and red wines don't warm any more than necessary.  So what about the new stemless wine glasses?  If you use them properly and fill them only one-third full to allow room for swirling the wine, you will still have ample room to handle the glass at the top.  This way, your warm hands don't warm the wine.

When Tutankhamen’s tomb was opened in 1922, the wine jars buried with him were labeled with the year, the name of the winemaker, and comments such as “very good wine.” The labels were so specific that they could actually meet modern wine label laws of several countries.

The final word on nutrition and health.
1. The Japanese eat very little fat and suffer fewer heart attacks than the English.
2. The Mexicans eat a lot of fat and suffer fewer heart attacks than the English.
3. The Chinese drink very little red wine and suffer fewer heart attacks than the English.
4. The Italians drink a lot of red wine and suffer fewer heart attacks than the English.
5. The Germans drink a lot of beer and eat lots of sausages and fats and suffer fewer heart attacks than the English.
CONCLUSION: Eat and drink what you like. Speaking English is apparently what kills you.

source:http://www.jokebuddha.com/Wine#ixzz2mHlZq1mb

During Prohibition years when alcohol sales were banned by the 18th amendment to the U.S. Constitution (1920-1933) wine growers would put large labels on their grape juice that stated:
"Warning: Will Ferment and turn into wine,"  and then proceeded to give detailed instructions of what NOT to do so the grape juice would not accidentally turn into wine!