Surely most people prefer local produce and the home made little gems you find only in England and the UK as a whole. We feel the same and like the fact that it’s British made using British employees! We are certainly not knocking our other products that are imported from the likes of Austria, Germany and Australia, but we feel if it’s made in Britain it feels a little bit more special!

Stated below are numbers 6-10 in our Top Ten British Made Products, which will be followed on by numbers 1-5.

10 – Connoisseur Decanter (JC/115/P)

Manufactured and Made by silver smiths JA Campbell – This is an ideal decanter for sherry or port – Hand blown English crystal decanter.

9 – Plain Sterling Silver Drip Ring (4802)

A simple but elegant way to prevent drips from staining the table. The drip ring is available in either silver plate or in hallmarked sterling silver, as pictured, and the felt lining can be removed and washed as required.

8 – Wine Weaver (WINEWEAVER)

Use WineWeaver’s unique aeration system to naturally enhance the flavours and release the aromas in your wine. Aeration, exposing wine to air, broadens its character and helps soften the acidity often found in younger wines, whilst coaxing out those tastes hidden in more mature bottles.

7 – Wine Bottle Display Information Neck Tags (7227)

Reusable Wine Bottle Price and Information Tags

- Ideal for Shops and Wine Stores
- Point of sale signs with clear Price and Information
- 4 different ways to displays tags on top of the Bottle
- Cards can be hand written or computer generated
- Eliminates the cost of expensive die-cut cards
- Holds A7 Cards
- 8 cards available from a single A4 sheet
- Neat and professional – easy to read

6 – Port Tongs (4356)

Heated tongs are thought to be the best means of opening old bottles of vintage port.

They enable the neck of the bottle and the cork to be removed intact, thus eliminating the possibility of the cork crumbling and spoiling the wine. They also cause least disturbance to the bottle and also, therefore, to any sediment. The tongs are made of black iron with polished wood handles, which are finished in brass.

Read the next Wineware Blog for numbers 1-5 in our Top Ten British Products.

With Christmas fast approaching, it’s time to start thinking about presents! The ladies and gents of the Wineware office have compiled a list of our Top 10 Wine Accessories for Christmas 2008. So whether you’re buying or receiving wine accessories from us this Christmas, we’re sure to offer you high quality wine products.

1 – Peter Steger One For All Red and White Wine 8 Glass Set (STEGER-DUO)

With this glass the impossible has become possible. ONE for All is a unique professional wine glass for the perfect presentation of all types of Red Wine and White Wine. Made from Lead Free Crystal, designed by Peter Steger and made in Germany.

Price for 8 Glasses: £50.00

2 – Riedel O Range Cabernet Merlot Gift Set 6 + 1 (5414/60)

Set Includes:

6 x 414/0 – Riedel O Range Cabernet Merlot Wine Glasses
1 x 1440/14 – FREE Merlot Decanter

World recognised glass manufacture Riedel produce another great offer, this time 6 ‘O’ Range Cabernet Merlot glasses plus a FREE decanter.

Price for 6 Glasses and Decanter: £43.20

3 – Modularack Wine Rack 36 (MOD36)

The Modularack 36 stores 36 bottles of wine in 4 x 9 formation. Modularack Pine Wine Racks are imported from Australia exclusively by ourselves and are the most versatile and easily assembled racking system available. Manufactured from plantation grown Australian pine, a unique hardwood that will not dent, turn yellow or fade. Whether you are storing 10,000 bottles or only a dozen, Modularacks are ideal!

No tools required – pieces simply fit together / All sizes available in Natural Pine or Dark Stain.

This product is exclusive to Wineware in the UK

Price: £60.71

4 – Rouge 02 Electronic Wine Breather (EWB12)

To enjoy most wines you should allow them to breathe or decant at least an hour or more before drinking, how often do we forget or not have enough time or unexpected guests arrive and you need another bottle.

The patented Rouge electronic breather is the perfect solution as it reduces breathing time from one hour down to one minute in a controlled and sophisticated way.

Price: £14.99

5 – Leather Bound Wine Log (7015)

Wine Log, Cellar Book, Tasting Journal

Wine Tasting Basics, A simple guide for accessing wine. Includes a glossary of over 300 tasting terms, a wine cellar guide and wine temperature serving information. Organise and catalogue fine wines for greater value and enjoyment. With the thousands of wines available, you need a place to keep notes on the interesting wines you taste. The journal is Hardback with a black cover and gold embossing.

Price: £14.75

6 – Wine Aerator With Filter (4407)

Super Oxygenating funnel for decanters

Made of silver-plated brass, it ensures the complete volatilisation of the sulphurous anhydride when the wine simply touches the internal wall of the funnel, thus allowing a cleaner and more accurate olfactory test.

Price: £14.95

7 – Wineware Waiters Friend Double Lever Corkscrew (3040)

Wineware’s very own Double Level Corkscrew is made from Stainless steel with a Rosewood handle, with a serrated edge foilcutter. Every household needs a good quality Corkscrew for good quality Wines!

Price: £14.95

8 – Menu Display Wine Rack, Black (4662539)

Store your wine up on the wall and enjoy the sight of the stylish bottles as they seemingly waft a few centimetres from the wall. Holds six bottles – ordinary wine bottles, slim dessert wines and plump champagne bottles. The Wine Rack is made from Fibreglass-reinforced nylon with black synthetic rubber and designed by Jakob Wagner, the man behind most Menu AS wine accessory products.

Price: £29.95

9 – Schott Zwiesel Bar Special Champagne Saucer x 6 (111219)

Why not celebrate the Christmas period in style with Schott Zwiesel’s Champagne Saucers! Schott Zwiesel’s Champagne Saucers are already hugely popular and I’m sure they will be one of, if not THE best selling items over the Christmas period. The very stylish saucers are machine made from tritan crystal and can hold over 280ml of Champagne and are sure to please any receiver!

Price for 6 Glasses: £45.00

10 - Turn Decanter (4123)

The remarkable Turn Decanter is hand blown and designed to take aeration a step further. The decanter is shaped like a spinning top and can be removed from its stand. It can then be gently rolled in an arc, which renews the surface area of wine exposed to the air and speeds up breathing. The base is silver plated zinc alloy. The price includes a base and stopper.

Price: £33.95

FREE DELIVERY is available to UK mainland addresses for orders over £50.00 and FREE GIFT TAGS can be added in the checkout area so you can have your Christmas wishes inscribed for you.

The Eisch Glas Claret Decanter (712/15, pictured below) and Eisch Glas Chateau Decanter (749.15) are both feature in all of our advertisements because of there popularity with out consumers.

Click here for more information on Eisch Glas Wine Decanters.

Click here for more information on the Eisch Glas Decanter Dryer.

Whether you would use them for the pouring one or two glasses of wine or maybe just to show off to your friends when they come round for dinner. All are hand made using Lead Crystal and available to purchase from Wineware within the next few days.

Flamingo Decanter

Equally distinctive is Riedel’s new Flamingo decanter – though it’s not at all pink. Flamingo has a broad, bulb-shaped base and an exaggerated long and slender neck reminiscent of the legs of the bird for which it was named. The Flamingo holds a standard 750ml bottle of wine. And for those who prefer their Flamingo’s pink, we suggest a nice bottle of Rose.

Swan Decanter

There is no more elegant bird than the Swan, so Riedel thought it only fitting that their new Swan decanter should embody the same natural grace. The body of the decanter mimics the gentle curvature of the form of a Swan, forming “J” shape with an exaggeratedly elongated straight neck that narrows to the elliptical lip. Wine is simply poured into the wider opening of the Swan’s “tail” (which also forms a natural handle for services) then effortlessly poured into the glass from the narrow “neck”.

Paloma Decanter

A variety of the wines winged dove, the Paloma is a bird with a curvilinear form that lends itself well to this stylish decanter. As with the Swan, wine is poured into the widest opening in the “tail” of the vessel and poured from the narrower curved neck. The “tail” a natural hand-held, enables a sure grip, and the slender, angled neck with its elliptical mouth provides a perfect drip less pour. Mouth-blown and made of lead crystal, the Paloma holds a standard 750ml bottle of wine.

For more information on our Riedel Wine Decanters, click here.

Number 5, Riedel Cabernet Decanter (1440/13)

Height: 230mm 9 1/8’’
Capacity: 1050 ccm 37 1/8 fl. oz

 Non Lead, Mouth-Blown, Hand-Made

Number 4, Rossi Magnum Decanter (4122)

Height: 250mm

Diameter: 210mm

Capacity: 240 cl

This Decanter is the same as the Rossi Decanter (4121) but will hold an entire Magnum Bottle of Wine.

Number 3, Eisch Glas Decanter (748.15)

Height: 237mm 9 3/8″
Capacity: 1.5 Litres

NO DROP EFFECT

This elegant crystal glass decanter is hand crafted in Bavaria in Germany by Eisch Glas craftsmen. The No Drop Effect that Eisch Glas crystal decanters are desired for is based on a special treatment of the glass surface which permanently prevents drops from running down the outside of carafes and decanters. 

Treatment almost completely prevents the formation of drops at the rim of the glass.  As a result, no drops of red wine will run down the outside of the carafe. This practically guarantees stain protection of both vessel and tablecloth!

Number 2, Eisch Glas Fashion Decanter (718/1.5)

Height: 237mm 9 3/8″
Capacity: 1.5 Litres

NO DROP EFFECT

This elegant crystal glass decanter is hand crafted in Bavaria in Germany by Eisch Glas craftsmen. The No Drop Effect that Eisch Glas crystal decanters are desired for is based on a special treatment of the glass surface which permanently prevents drops from running down the outside of carafes and decanters. 

Treatment almost completely prevents the formation of drops at the rim of the glass.  As a result, no drops of red wine will run down the outside of the carafe. This practically guarantees stain protection of both vessel and tablecloth!

And Finally at Number 1, Our Best Selling Wine Decanter is, Turn Decanter (4123)

Height: 255mm 10″
Diameter: 225mm 8.9″
Capacity: 1000ml 33.8 fl oz

The remarkable Turn Decanter is hand blown and designed to take aeration a step further. The decanter is shaped like a spinning top and can be removed from its stand. It can then be gently rolled in an arc, which renews the surface area of wine exposed to the air and speeds up breathing. The base is silver plated zinc alloy.

Popular products such as the Cuvee Decanter and the Montana Cuvee Champagne glasses are ready to be packed up and delivered to your door.

The popular Montana Cuvee Decanter (42469), which measures at 260mm (Height) and holds 1.5Litres keeps the Wine’s sediment in the bottle. This also allows red wine to unfold its full bouquet. The elegant :cuvee decanter will steal the show when placed on a festively laid table, but is just as at home on a coffee table by candlelight.

The box of 6 Montana Cuvee Champagne glasses (42489) which hold 21 cl and measure 240mm high, the tall and slender :cuvee champagne flute is the perfect glass for delicious sparkling wines. The glasses allow them to sparkle at their leisure and result in a treat for the eye for the palate to savour.

For more information on the Montana Range, click here

In what proved to be a tiring, yet successful and enjoyable day ensued and below are images of some of the stands that Wineware representatives visited.

The Easy Store Carafe / Decanter Dryer is the first demountable decanter drying rack. Thanks to its flexible tips, it can be assembled (ON position) and disassembled (OFF position) in no time, and then be put away flat or against the wall. A real gain of space!

Priced at only £15.60, it is incredible reasonable priced.

Please Note: The Decanter is not included

For more information about this product, click here

Luckily if your loved one is a wine lover, you’re pretty spoiled for choice here on Wineware. We have a great deal of products suitable fo the wine enthusiast, all of which may make that wine guzzling fiend of yours smack his lips and run his hands together as he opens your marvellous present.

Its not difficult to choose presents for anyone, the difficult part is choosing the right present, as I’m sure many will appreciate. For someone with a cellar full of red wine, white wine glasses may not be the best choice in the same way that for someone with a fine taste for a variety of cocktails, a wine rack may not be the best choice.

So where should you start to ensure not only that you buy the right present this Christmas, but that you buy the perfect present?

Right here!

So counting down from 10 all the way to number 1, here are the Wineware top 10 gifts for Christmas for 2007

In at number 10 is the Champagne Opener

Its a very simple device, essentially its an all in one clamp type system that allows you to remove the foil, the wire, and the cork in just seconds. It also has a great safety feature that keeps the cork firmly by your side, rather than allowing it to go shooting off across the room, or as sometimes happens, into someone else’s head!

Sitting at number 9 we have the Wine Aerator with Filter

This silver plated brass funnel is inserted into your favourite decanter before you poor in your wine of the evening. Because of its shape and the way its constructed the wine is given the absolute optimum amount of time to oxidise and release all those beautiful flavours that you savour so dearly.

At number 8 we find the Set of Three Cheese Knives

Anyone who loves wine and cheese will love this Christmas present, presented in a gorgeous gift box these knives have everything you need to slice through that cheese wheel like butter. Quicker cutting means more time to go back for more!

In at lucky number 7 is the Rouge Electronic Wine Breather

This handy little device is a sophisticated mechanism that is used to decant wine at high speed. Generally wine should be decanted for at least an hour before consumption, but often this isn’t possible and sometimes you just forget! So this gadget reduces decanting time from one hour to one minute, by pumping tiny bubbles through the wine until its perfectly oxidised.

Up at number 6 is the Ruby Martini Glass

This stunning inverted red cone is perfect for containing an olive on a toothpick.. oh.. and your martini too! It really is somewhat of a party piece, and is sure to stand out amongst the crowd of glasses that everyone has already seen before. These ruby glasses are something special.

Halfway to the top and at number 5 is the Menu Wine Decanter

This minimalist decanter is very modern and sleek, and comes from an original Scandinavian design. It has a very broad base, which ensures proper aeration of the wine.

At number 4 we have the Eisch Glas Chateau Decanter

This decanter was hand crafted in Germany by Eisch Glas, the glass of which has been specially treated to produced the ‘no drop effect’ – making it impossible for a drop to run down the side of the decanter. (useful for those white tablecloths!)

And kicking off the top 3 is the Modularack Wine Rack

This product is a true innovation, a fully expandable wine rack. Each level is constructed of beautifully cut wood and holds 9 bottles, you start off with 4 levels in this Wineware package, and then if you start running out of space, you can just keep adding new levels to your wine rack.

Runner up at number 2 is the superb Wine Discovery Set

This kit teaches you about tasting methods and helps you discover both the origin and appellation of the wine, in no time at all you will be able to talk about wine more competently, and choose wines that are perfect to your taste. Great product for Christmas time!

And finally, at number 1, is the fantastic Screwpull Corkscrew Lm-400

This amazing device is certainly not cheaply made, and is designed for the serious wine enthusiast. If you spend over £100 on a bottle of wine, you’re not going to want to risk ruining the cork trying to open it! This device uses brand new rotation technology to remove the cork easily, and painlessly from the neck of the bottle, and leaves only the most fresh of passageways behind through which the wine may flow.

And there you have it, the top 10 Christmas presents for 2007 – enjoy it, and make sure you buy as you would wish to be bought for!