The Gift Exchange

When giving Champagne gifts do you ever wonder why the Champagne bottles are so thick and heavy? Because of their pressurized, excitable contents, Champagne bottles must be able to withstand at least 6 Gs of force when opened and thus are thicker-walled than normal wine bottles. To put this in perspective, blasting off in a [...]

Mmmm wine…I love to wine! Everyone here knows what a big fan of wine I am. So needless to say, any questions the customer service department have regarding wine are usually directed to me! This year, I’m totally excited to be going on my very first ‘wine walk’. I’m going to one on the Oregon Coast [...]

New Year’s Eve simply wouldn’t be the same without the sound of Champagne corks popping and bubbly flowing freely as the clock strikes midnight. After all, Champagne is and always has been the wine of celebration, and now is the perfect time to send loved ones and colleagues Champagne gifts to celebrate the arrival of [...]

Our holiday gifts are now available on the Web site and in our catalog. Although we have many impressive gifts, my new favorite gift basket is the Fruit & Gourmet Delight. This basket contains pears, apples, and oranges. It has Omega-3rich Fruit Filled Oatmeal Cookies, Pistachios, Jalapeno Jack Cheese, Herb Encrusted Crackers, and a canister [...]

It’s easy to make your friends’ and family’s holiday truly merry with one of GiftTree’s high quality, elegantly presented wine gifts. Whether you are purchasing a classic wine crate for a relative across the miles or one of our luxury wine baskets to impress a valued colleague, we offer a wide selection so that you’ll [...]

In the past several years,  I’ve noticed how I feel and think about wine has totally changed. When I first starting drinking wine in my early 20′s, my husband and I would go to the store, find the cheapest, biggest jug of wine we could find, and then feel all super classy while drinking it…ha [...]

Showcased in one of our most popular luxury wine gift baskets, Caymus Cabernet Sauvignon is often said to be a wine that needs no introduction. While this may be true, there certainly is a rich history behind the wine and it all starts with one word: Charles. Before there was Caymus, there was the Wagner family [...]

The term “wine thief” is a clever name for a glass pipette that winemakers use to extract a small amount of wine from a cask for testing. Typically a wine thief is anywhere from 12 to 24 inches in length and is easily inserted through a hole in the wooden barrel where wine is fermenting. We [...]

When I first started working here, I would get calls from customers who kept telling me we needed to carry this fantastic chardonnay by Cakebread Cellars of Napa Valley. Since I love wine, and kept hearing about how delightful it is, I decided to try it for myself. I was in love at first sip! [...]

Exciting news! Wineries in certain parts of Sonoma and Napa began harvesting grapes this week for this year’s wine production. So far it has been an excellent growing season in California with no major problems like late frosts in spring or sudden intense heat spells in the summer, and many wineries are looking forward to [...]