If you're looking for a quick gift to grab and go this holiday season, we've got some great ideas for you when you stop into our tasting rooms! See below for the 6 most popular gift boxes we've been selling this season.
Our most popular spirits by far are our Cherry Vodka and Cherry Whiskey, so we've made up a gift set highlighting all of the best cherry products we carry in our tasting rooms. The gift box includes our Cherry Vodka, which is great mixed with lemonade, in a Moscow Mule, or with most sodas to add a sweet cherry flavor. It also includes our Cherry Whiskey, which is good for those who are looking for a little sweeter base for an Old Fashioned, in a soda mixer like Coke, or it's even good enough just to have neat or on the rocks. We also add our house-made Bourbon Cocktail Cherries, which are made from local Michigan Balaton cherries and soaked in our Bourbon, making a great garnish for any whiskey drink. We also add some Dark Chocolate Covered Cherries for a nice sweet treat while you're enjoying a cherry cocktail. For the cherry lover in your life, this is a great gift set!
This has been a popular gift box we've sold for years now, and it continues to be a great gift for those who love a good Bloody Mary! We use our Chipotle Vodka to make Bloody Marys, so we include a bottle of that along with the Bloody Mary mix from Bloody Point for an easy two-ingredient Bloody Mary. The Chipotle Vodka has a good medium level of spice to it, and the Bloody Point mix includes a little heat with celery salt, making it a great mixer with the Chipotle.
Our Cocoa Bean Vodka has been an excellent base for a good Espresso Martini. The dark chocolate flavor complements the espresso flavors making a dark chocolate-rich Espresso Martini. We now have an Espresso Martini mix from Bittermilk that we sell with our Cocoa Bean Vodka making a great gift set for another east 2 ingredient mixed drink for those who enjoy Espresso Martinis and want to make them at home.
For those who enjoy a good Old Fashioned, our Bottled in Bond Bourbon makes a fantastic cocktail! With this gift set, we include our Bottled in Bond Bourbon and an Old Fashioned mix from Bittermilk for those looking to whip up an Old Fashioned in no time. We also include a branded rocks glass and some fun whiskey stones made from granite. These stones act as ice cubes without diluting your drink once they get frozen. So all they would have to do is put everything in the rocks glass and enjoy
We have both Solera whiskeys on the shelf right now, Solera Ole George Rye and Solera Bourbon. Both of these whiskies go through the same triple fractional barrel aging process, starting for 4 years in a new American, then 1 year in a high vanillin French oak barrel, then 1 year in a Cognac barrel. With the Bourbon, you get more sweetness on the palate from the higher corn mash bill, and with the Ole George, you get a bit more of an earthy, peppery sweetness from the rye. Both have notes of oak, vanilla, and cognac from the triple barrel aging process. For those who love a good Solera or know our Solera products, this is a great gift set to get since every batch of Solera is always a little different. We suggest throwing in a couple of glasses with the gift set and calling it a day on the gift for the whiskey lover in your life.
Our Peninsula Gin is notoriously known for being excellent in a Gin and Tonic, and the fact that we carry a tonic concentrate from Jack Rudy makes it an easy gift set for a gin lover. The Peninsula Gin has high notes of citrus from the lemon and orange botanicals and secondary warm notes from the coriander, grains of paradise, and angelica root, then it finishes with a soft note of juniper, making it a palatable gin for those who love gin or even those are looking for a good entry-level gin.
