The Gift Exchange

Summer comes kind of late in the Pacific Northwest. It always feels like the season waits until the last minute to begin, and then condenses itself into a few brief weeks of sweltering heatwave after the 4th of July. When the sun finally comes out I love being able to keep the doors and windows [...]

A couple months ago I went on a road trip with my boyfriend. With gas prices, food and lodging, our trip was on a budget. We took the scenic route from Vancouver, WA into Nevada and ended up in San Diego before we made it back home. Our friends and family saved us several hundreds [...]

I love each season as it comes, but I really love summer. I look forward to it all year long! The long days, that big bright yellow thing in the sky comes out (if we are lucky!) and bare feet in the grass. One of my favorite summer activities is lounging in my parents backyard [...]

A few years ago, when I first started working here at GiftTree, I was so excited to see what great wines we carried. I had just gotten in to wine a year or two before I started here, and the subject was relatively new, but very interesting to me. Over the years since, it’s become [...]

One of my fondest memories of the New Year isn’t so much a memory of that the actual day but the events leading up the the much anticipated Y2K. I know you all remember it – Almost everyone had emergency kits made, stores sold out of batteries & bottled water, people pulled their money out [...]

I’m trying to expand my horizons as a self proclaimed wine enthusiast. Please, please understand that I regularly consume wine from a box, so in no way am I claiming to be an expert. But as I am now in the business of offering super luxury and high end wines, I feel that I have [...]

Guest Blogger: Tracy Holman Many of us are not able to be with our families this Thanksgiving, including me, but that doesn’t mean we can’t be part of the fun. Before the big feast, my family loves to play games – especially cards. So, I’m going to send The Entertainer. This gift is a stylish and durable [...]

I have some sisters who are hard to buy for.  I like buy them something that they would not normally buy for themselves, but I don’t really know what that would be. The Toast of California was a big hit with the sister who received it for Christmas last year.  She lives in California and [...]

As a wine lover, a lot of my family and friends are always saying  to me “I wanted to get you some wine, but I didn’t know what to get…” I thought I’d blog about this subject because it seems like a common one! Wine makes a nice gift for any wine lovers on your list, [...]

I love some good classic rock n’ roll! I also love a good glass of wine. Imagine my excitement when I saw one of our newest gifts, Wines That Rock. It’s the best of both worlds! You get 3 bottles of Mendocino County wines, all in a rock and roll theme. The first is Rolling [...]