8 Unique Valentine’s Day Gifts to Please Your Beloved Beverage Enthusiast
Valentine’s Day carries a lot of significance as a gift-giving occasion since it is a day meant specifically for the person you know and love best. Think about it. Is just a bottle, even a special or unique one, really going to cut it, time and time again as a gift for your beloved? This Valentine’s Day, why not look to more creative expressions of your affection. These 8 unique Valentine’s Day gifts speak to their love of beverages, but also reflect that your unique relationship is deserving of something original.
Shinesty Beer-Branded Onesies
Romance is appropriate, of course, but make it irreverent and fun. Suggest a cuddle with cozy, matching, one-piece sleepwear. Nothing says “there’s nobody I’d rather Netflix and chill with while popping open a cold one” when that sleepwear is branded with your favorite, uncomplicated beer brand. Shinesty produces adult onesies—as well as underwear, pajamas, overalls, and even a ski suit—adorned with any of several, irreverent beer brand options.
Apotheke Cocktail Candle Collection
Candles can sometimes feel like a generic gift, even if they are excellent ambiance enhancers for romance. Apotheke’s Cocktail Candle Collection, however, is an extremely thoughtful gift for the right person, and brings some big ambiance in more than one way. Along with flattering mood lighting, the aromas in these candles evoke signature cocktails from three sexy cocktail bars: Attaboy’s Penicillin cocktail, Maybe Sammy’s Espresso Martini, and The Nomad’s Nod to Nothing.
Vinebox by Sugarwish Date Night Wine Tasting Kit
A bottle of wine is always classy—as a housewarming present maybe, or to bring to your dinner party host. For your significant other, though, unless you’re going all out on a birth year bottle, or digging deep to find the wine you had on your first date, you’re going to have to try a little harder. Fortunately, Vinebox makes it easy to try harder: with Date Night or Ultimate Date Night boxes, featuring 3 or 6 wine selections served in single-glass portion pairs for tasting, you and your sweetheart can spend a romantic evening together discussing the nuances of your individual palates.
Woodford Reserve Bourbon Balls
One need only look to your grocery store’s shelves approximately one day after the launch of the New Year to know that Valentine’s Day is all about the chocolate. A bottle of chocolate liqueur would be a fine idea for the beverage AND chocolate enthusiast in your life, but in the spirit of thinking outside the bottle this year, let’s take it back to the box. Woodford Reserve, makers of fine Kentucky bourbon, also offer Kentucky Bourbon Balls: boozy bonbons wrapped in dark chocolate, perfect for making meaningful eye contact while nibbling.
Beanbox Coffee and Chocolate Tasting
Beverage enthusiasts come in many varieties, including lovers of coffee, which has just as much terroir and nuance behind it as wine, and also happens to be an excellent pairing with chocolate, the official mascot of Valentine’s Day. If your special someone is indeed a bean fiend, and you’d rather turn the energy up than down this holiday, consider an artisan coffee and chocolate tasting box from Beanbox, who also offer coffee subscriptions if you want to get yourselves amped up on the regular. Another option? Bourbon barrel aged coffee from The Morning Dram.
Personalized Beer Cap Shadow Box
Here’s a subtle way to show your favorite beer lover that you’re in it for more than the short term. This personalized shadow box from Etsy Seller Austero is designed to hold and display your beer bottle caps. It’s going to take more than a little time to fill it up, (no matter how enthusiastic about beer you both are,) and once it’s full there’s an opportunity to relive the memories of your favorite brews together. File this under #couplegoals.
Sommify Blind Tasting Game
This is a judgment free zone, and if your first thought of blind tasting went to actual blindfolds…well, that’s one memorable way to spend Valentine’s Day. Here’s another: with Sommify, a blind-tasting board game developed by sommeliers to actually help you learn deductive, blind wine tasting, that does indeed engage all of your senses. Plus, couples who learn together…burn together?
Mad Scientist Cocktail Bitters Kit
If your intended’s love language is physical touch, here’s an idea for a Valentine’s Day gift that’s certainly hands-on, but still appropriate to unwrap in public. With this cocktail bitters kit from Etsy seller Mad Scientist, you and your favorite can create a signature bitters blend as unique and special as you are. Now that’s some chemistry worth celebrating.
For more Valentine’s Day content see: Sweet on You: Honey Cocktails for Valentine’s Day, Quirky Romantic Comedy and Drink Pairings, and Taittinger, The Ideal Champagne for Romance.
Looking to add a bottle to your unique gift? Check out the winners from the New York International Wine Competition.