19 Best Gift Ideas for Wine Lovers | Curated by Laithwaites

It doesn’t matter if you’re hunting the best bottle for your favorite wine enthusiast or simply looking to show someone a full pour of appreciation this holiday season: This guide is packed with delicious wine gift ideas for everyone. Read on to discover impressive fine wines, one-of-a-kind selections and go-to crowd-pleasers—plus a few awesome wine accessories and other unique gift ideas for wine lovers, for good measure.

The Wine Gift That Gives All Month Long: Our World of Wine Advent Calendar

First things first… While we totally agree a bottle of wine is a great gift for anyone, once it’s been poured and sipped, it’s done and gone. So here’s another wine gift idea: Give your friends and loved ones access to delicious wine all December long with our Wine Advent Calendar. Each of its 24 windows reveals a unique mini glass bottle of wine, with just enough for one generous serving. Designed to appeal to a wide range of wine lovers, recipients will sip well-known dry whites like crisp Sauvignon Blanc and smooth red wines like rich Malbec, but they’ll also try more unusual wines like a rare white Tuscan Sangiovese. They’ll even get to pop some award-winning sparkling wine. Plus, it ships FREE of charge.

Delicious Red Wine Gift Ideas for Everybody

Great gift ideas for hosts and coworkers, friends, neighbors and loved ones (so, basically everyone), these are the red wine gifts that do it all. They’ll impress everyday drinkers, please wine connoisseurs and, most importantly, will over deliver on quality and flavor.

The Best Red Wines for Thanksgiving

Pinot Noir

Pinot Noir is often agreed upon as the best wine pairing for Thanksgiving turkey. However, thanks to its light to medium weight, lovely red fruit flavors and bright acidity, it’s also a delicious accompaniment to basically any other traditional dish you might serve on Turkey Day. You can sip it alongside rich stuffing and gravy-soaked potatoes, as well as lighter fare like green beans or roasted broccoli.

Gamay

Similar to Pinot Noir, Gamay has the perfect trifecta of characteristics well-suited to a typical Thanksgiving menu: food-friendly acidity, low tannins and bright red-fruited flavors. Though selections vary, many (like those from Fleurie in France’s Beaujolais region) also offer floral and mineral tones that would complement earthier dishes like sweet potatoes, mushroom-based stuffing or roasted rutabaga.

A French Classic: Benedictus de Vatican 2023

The gold-medal winning Benedictus de Vatican is made by the Diffonty family, one of the oldest winemaking dynasties in France’s Rhône Valley (who’s somewhat famous in the wine community for producing the first case of Châteauneuf-du-Pape that the illustrious wine critic Robert Parker ever purchased). A classic Rhône blend of Grenache, Syrah and Mourvèdre, it offers a velvety core of blackberry jam, cherry and plum flavors with a welcome note of tobacco spice.rs.

Quintessential California Cab: The Inaugural Cabernet Sauvignon 2020

This longtime best-selling California Cab comes from Raymond Vineyards, “one of the iconic wineries of Napa,” according to the aforementioned Parker, and a former Wine Enthusiast magazine American Winery of the Year winner. Juicy, opulent and unmistakably full-bodied, it offers voluptuous cherry and plum flavors across a long, smooth finish. It may just be our favorite red wine to gift.

Delightful White Wine Gift Ideas for All

Crisp, versatile and refreshing, white wine is a great present for anybody and everybody. Here are some of our favorite white wines to gift, from simple and approachable to fancy and memorable.

A Reliable Win: Vina Baccana Pinot Grigio 2023

Super food-friendly and almost always a crowd-pleaser, Pinot Grigio is our go-to white wine gift for hosts, guests, neighbors or anyone whose preferences we’re unsure of. (Hello, White Elephant gift.) This one, a 90-point winner from white wine master Alessandro Gallici in the Friuli-Venezia Giulia region of northeastern Italy, is seriously impressive. Its perfumed, peachy aromas open into a lovely, crisp palate of orchard fruit flavors.

The Underdog Hit: Château Le Coin Sauvignon Gris 2023

Did you know Bordeaux makes sensational dry white wines? It’s true! Though France’s largest winegrowing region is most recognized for its red wines, it produces around seven million cases of white wine each year, and they can be just as compelling and delicious as the reds. This one is made from 100% Sauvignon Gris, a mutation of the better-known Sauvignon Blanc that generally yields lush, rich expressions. Made from low-yielding old vines that produce concentrated fruit, it offers a unique, grassy citrus character and plenty of delicious passion fruit flavors.

Beautiful White Burgundy: Château de Dracy Bourgogne Blanc 2020

Burgundy’s Château de Dracy estate traces its history all the way back to 1298 and has collaborated with acclaimed producer Albert Bichot for more than a century. Needless to say, the folks responsible for this bottle know a thing or two about good wine—and it shows. An impressive white wine gift (and maybe the best white wine to gift), it provides layers of pure, nervy citrus and Golden Delicious apples, flecked with subtle flinty notes and a hint of toasty oak.

Rosé Wine Gift Ideas We Love

Say “yes way!” to a rosé holiday season: These are the best pink wines to gift anyone. Dry wines that are easy drinking, each offers nuanced fruit flavors perfect for sipping on their own or alongside a wide range of foods. (It helps that they’re also downright good looking, in-glass and in-bottle, too.)

Pink Wine with a Punch: Domaine du Mas Ensoleillé Rosé 2022

A gold-medal winner, Domaine du Mas Ensoleillé hails from a tiny estate in Aix-en-Provence (an important appellation within France’s Provence wine region) and is made with premium, old-vine Grenache and Syrah. It practically bursts from the glass with ripe strawberry, orange zest and passion fruit characteristics—the perfect rosé wine to gift anyone who enjoys more robust flavors.

Pretty, Pleasant and Perfectly Balanced: Domaine La Domitienne Rosé 2021

Crafted in the delicate Provençal style but made elsewhere in southern France, this is a lovely pale rosé in an eye-catching, stout bottle. Elegant, light-bodied and incredibly likable, it offers just the right amount of berry and herb flavors, balanced by minerality and citrus. We recommend gifting it to someone who will share it with you.

Organic Rosé From Italy: w/o Nero D’Avola Rosato 2023

France may set the standard for elegant rosé, but this 94-point bottle from Sicily sure gives the category a run for its money. Not only is it light, crisp and lovely, it’s part of acclaimed winemaker Dino Taschetta’s w/o (“without”) range, crafted from organically grown grapes and bottled in 100% recycled glass with minimal labeling. Its expressive pink grapefruit and cherry blossom aromas lead to a compelling palate of raspberry, white peach and minerality.

Great Gift Ideas for New Wine Lovers

Shopping for someone just getting into wine? Here are the best wine gift ideas for the wine-curious and new wine lovers, and those of us who just want to know, taste and experience a little more (i.e. most of us).

An All-Out Bestselling Italian Red: Pillastro Primitivo 2022

This Puglian Primitivo is nothing less than a legend with our customers and notable critics, and is probably the most approachable wine in our cellar (read: it’s the best red wine for beginners). A rich, full-bodied red wine perfect for everybody, it offers smooth and sumptuous red and black fruit flavors that mingle with spicy oak and vanilla notes. A perennial award-winner, this vintage boasts 94 points and a double-gold medal from Gilbert & Gaillard.

The New Wine Rules: A Genuinely Helpful Guide to Everything You Need to Know, by Jon Bonné

As its name implies, this petite compendium provides an at-a-glance—actually practical—guide to the basics of wine tasting, drinking, storing and serving. With less than 100 “rules” explained in plain English (no nerd-talk here) and a series of cute illustrations, it’s dead simple to follow and just a joy to read.

The Best Wine Accessory Gift: Modern Stemless Glasses

This set of two Dartington stemless glasses is a great gift for wine lovers and wine novices. With a large bowl ideal for both red wines and whites, they’re handy and versatile, with plenty of room to swirl and aerate wine to bring out its full aromas and flavors. An added bonus: They’re safe to go in the dishwasher.

Fine Wine Gift Ideas for Collectors and Discerning Palates

Maybe the person you’re shopping for has a taste for the finer things, or maybe they’re a total oenophile—or maybe you just want to treat them to something really special. Either way, these are the holiday wine gift ideas to pay attention to.

90+ Point, Multi-Medal Brunello: Luciani Brunello Di Montalcino 2018

With a winemaking history that dates back to 1888, Tuscany’s Luciani family draws on generations of vinous expertise to craft classically styled wines tailored to contemporary palates. Thanks to an especially fantastic growing season, this 2018 vintage of their flagship Brunello di Montalcino delivers everything a fine wine lover could want, and then some. Aged 36 months in a mix of premium Italian botti and French barriques, it offers intense dark fruit flavors accented by subtle violet tones and hallmark notes of leather. It has decades of pleasure ahead of it, but if your giftee can’t wait to uncork it, we’d recommend a brief decant before they sip it.

Napa Valley Icon: Velvet Room Reserve 2021

Here’s another great holiday wine from California’s elite Raymond Vineyards. (Sorry-not-sorry, we just can’t help ourselves.) Intended to personify the winery’s famous Red Room, it’s made with a blend of grapes from some of Napa’s most prized districts—including Rutherford, Oakville, St. Helena and Calistoga—and is aged in fine French oak. The result is rich and structured, with plush dark fruit flavors, polished tannins and, of course, a velvety finish. And with just 350 cases produced, it would be an extra special gift for wine lovers.

The Best Wine Accessory Gift Ideas We've Got

Of all the awesome wine accessories we offer, these practical and classic picks are our top gift ideas for wine lovers, hosts and hostesses with the most, or anyone who just really likes to entertain.

Electric (Rechargeable) Corkscrew

Give the gift of convenience: Crafted with form and function in mind, this electric corkscrew will let your friends and loved ones uncork their favorite bottles with the simple touch of a button. An ultra-sleek device that’s easily charged via a USB port, it even comes with a foil cutter. It’s the perfect addition to any wine lover’s kitchen or home bar.

Fine Wine Glasses

Established in 1967, Dartington Crystal is a leading producer of fine English glassware, and as you can imagine, they’ve got tons of gorgeous goblets from which to choose. But these tall-stemmed Dartington Orbit Red Wine Glasses are our favorites. With classic, tulip-shaped bowls, they’re impressively large—just the right size to perfectly aerate robust and aged wines like California Cab, red Bordeaux and Rioja. Advise your giftee to fill each glass to the widest part of the bowl, swirl gently and savor. (They can thank you later.)

And two more quick gift ideas...

A Wine Gift Card

Let’s face it: Wine is a really personal thing. And no matter how much care you put into selecting the best holiday wine gift, it may not be the perfect match for the recipient. That’s okay: If you don’t know whether the wine lover you’re shopping for prefers white wine or red, or you aren’t hunting a specific bottle, you may want to skip the vintage Châteauneuf-du-Pape or fancy Sancerre—as delicious as they are. Instead, let your loved ones do their own shopping with a wine gift card. Just fill out the form and hit “buy now” to send it via email.

A Wine-Tasting Tour

The most fun gift idea for wine lovers? A wine tasting tour! Wine is produced all over the world—including in all 50 states—and many wineries offer guests the opportunity to explore their estates and sample their current available vintage, if not more. Yes, this gift idea would require a bit of research (checking tasting room hours, making reservations if needed), but the venture is worth the extra effort, if you ask us. The best way to discover and experience wine is to go straight to the source!

Still not sure what to get? That’s okay, you’ve got options. Explore our full collection of wine gift sets or browse our vast range of bottles. If you’d prefer personal recommendations, give our Personal Wine Advisors a call at 1-888-863-7386 or shoot them an email at wineadvisors@laithwaites.com