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Christmas gift guide: Boozy gifts under R500
A list of great alcoholic beverages to gift your moms, dads, rich aunts, drunk uncles and everyone in between this holiday season.
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The holidays are as much about fun as they are about relaxation, family and (for some), celebrating the birth of Christ. During this time, people party and socialise a lot and most indulge in alcoholic beverages. We have compiled a list of some alcoholic beverages to consider as gifting options for friends, family and other loved ones.
Christmas gift guide: Boozy gifts under R500
Woodford Reserve straight bourbon whiskey – Between R399 and R425 depending on the retailer
The Woodford Reserve distillers select straight bourbon whiskey is a Kentucky Straight Bourbon Whiskey that is comprised of more than 200 detectable flavour notes.
The whiskey boasts a clean, brilliant honey amber colour as well as a perfectly balanced taste derived from bold grain and wood, to sweet aromatics, spice, and fruit & floral notes.
The nose of the Woodford Reserve distillers select straight bourbon whiskey is heavy with rich dried fruit, hints of mint and oranges covered with a dusting of cocoa. You can also pick up faint vanilla and tobacco spice.
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It has a rich, chewy, rounded and smooth taste with complex citrus, cinnamon and cocoa. There are also coffee, caramel, chocolate and spice notes abound.
All of this comes together to create a silky smooth, almost creamy at first finish with a long, warm satisfying tail.
Peaky Blinder – around R285
Peaky Blinder – the Irish Whiskey, not the show – is a bold but exceptionally smooth, triple-distilled, small batch blended whisky.
It has aromas of blackcurrant and apple.
With a toffee undertone and melted chocolate, apricots and dried peel on the palate, it finishes with subtle hints of cinnamon sticks.
Spier Good Natured Organic Shiraz Cabernet Savignon 2021 – about R105
This red wine is a 57% Shiraz, 33% Cabernet Sauvignon blend by Spier from their Good Natured Range. The wines were launched for public consumption earlier this year and the range also features Sauvignon Blanc, Chenin Blanc and Shiraz variants.
According to Spier, each of the four wines – two whites and two reds – is made with fruit grown in organic vineyards free of synthetic pesticides, herbicides and fertilisers.
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