Written by: 2 | GQ Magazine
Dec 2, 2021
When your aunt cracks out her blender and starts making some dodgy cocktails on Christmas evening, you better hope that someone had the foresight to wrap up a bottle of booze and place it under the tree. To avoid any such mishaps, why not let that prophetic genius be you?
We’ve made it easy for you this year with our guide to the best booze around. Buying drinks for Christmas is so much more than just getting a bottle of scotch for your dad, although that is a classic move. You can pick up rosé for your sister, a bottle of gorgeous red for your grandparents or some high-grade coffee liqueur for the cousin who wants to be a mixologist.
A number of distilleries and wineries put together special editions for their Christmas offerings giving you the chance to gift something that is truly memorable and we’re not just talking taste.
Some options feature beautiful packaging, some come with free glasses and some are collaborations with iconic brands. Choosing one of these options will add extra substance to an already great gift and the mantle-piece ready editions will give them a little more longevity.
You might be thinking that giving someone a gift that won’t last isn’t up your alley, but the memories to be made over a nice bottle of scotch with your dad or bonding over your childhood with your siblings with a chilled glass of rosé are indispensable.
Plus, giving the gift of booze means that you are giving a gift that definitely isn’t going to be found at the back of a draw in ten years time. If you aren’t so sure, maybe check out our other gift guides.
There’s one for fashion, one for tech and even one for those eccentric people who are really hard to buy for. With this amount of resources, you’ll definitely be the toast of your Christmas.
Solento Organic Tequila
Forget the celebrity brands and cultural appropriation: Solento are doing sustainable tequila properly, using only 100% organically-grown, sustainably-sourced agave azul to make single-estate, small batch tequila that goes down smooth.
