Spread Holiday Cheer with Vermont Wine & Spirits

As part of our DigInVT Holiday Gift Guide, we present to you some wine and spirit ideas! Our Vermont makers offer many wonderful products rooted in the land to gift to family and friends. Bottles of wine or favorite spirits have always been not only easy presents to give, but this year allow people to celebrate safely at home. Additional distillery and winery holiday ideas are below!

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Gift a Bottle

Search our website for DigInVT wineries and distilleries to shop online, find their products in local stores, or arrange for pickup at their location. Explore a variety of beverages perfect for apéritif, happy hour, dinner pairings, dessert, and more!

Drink Kits & Mixers

Making cocktails at home is a fun holiday activity to share with friends and family!

Mad River Distillers shares a variety of how-to videos on their website to teach you how to make your favorite drinks with their spirits.
Split Spirits/Appalachian Gap Distillery also shares recipes and ideas on their website for all of their spirits. Try the Vieux Carré, featuring their Drumlin Champlain Valley Rye Whiskey (made from 100% local ingredients!), or the Garlic Martini featuring their Mythic Gin.
Boyden Valley Winery & Spirits offers gift boxes that include everything you need to make a few of your favorite cocktails, including Old Fashioned, Espresso Martini, and Revolver.
Barr Hill offers a variety of housemade syrups, bitters, and cocktail kits to craft your own cocktails at home.
Browse Wolf Peach's shop to stock your home bar with locally-crafted cocktail fixings that are used by mixologists at some of the best Vermont restaurants (think Frankie's, Paradiso, Juniper, Doc Ponds, and more!).
Shrubbly is an herbalist-crafted sparkling shrub (+bubbly) that is great on its own (a shot of wellness) or used as a drink mixer.

Cocktails To-Go

Perfect for an adult stocking stuffer or family happy hour at home, some Vermont distillers offer pre-mixed and packaged cocktails.

Pick up a 4-pack of Barr Hill's canned Gin & Tonic from their Montpelier tasting room, or your local liquor store.
Mad River Distillers offers ready-to-drink Old Fashioneds using three different Mad River whiskeys.
SILO Distillery serves up ready-to-drink cocktails including Maple Manhattans, Lavender Cosmos, Maple Whiskey Sours, and Blue-B Trap (SILO gin and Blake Hill blueberry shrub).

Mulled Wines

Glögg and glüwein (spiced and mulled wines make for tasty and cozy treats during the holiday season.

Boyden Valley Winery & Spirits sells their Glögg by the bottle.
Snow Farm Vineyard offers recipes for both mulled wine and traditional Glögg, featuring their Leon Millot wine.

Wine Clubs

Gift someone wine all year long! Purchase a wine club membership:

Boyden Valley Winery & Spirits - become a Boyden VIP.
Lincoln Peak Vineyard - read about what wine club members receive.
North Branch Vineyards - Winemaker's Cellar Club for discounts, tasting pre-releases, and wine shipments.
Shelburne Vineyard - become a "Barrel Thief" with their wine club: "the gift that keeps on giving."
Snow Farm Vineyard - chose between two different clubs.

Glassware + Barware

Many of the above mentioned Vermont businesses offer branded glassware, like rocks glasses, shot glasses, martini glasses, wine glasses, even mason jars and flasks. Check their websites! See Barr Hill's mugs, glassware, and cocktail tools; SILO Distillery's glassware; and Shelburne Vineyard/Eden Ciders' glassware and tumbler collection.

Apparel

Gift hats, t-shirts, and hoodies! Mad River Distillers has a great selection of apparel, including a t-shirt reading "Drink Local Booze." Fable Farm Fermentory offers trendy hats and t-shirts.

Build-Your-Own Gift Box

Vermont wines and spirits famously pair well with Vermont cheeses, jams, maple goods, charcuteries, sweets, and so much more! Visit your local wine shop/market, such as Waitsfield's Mad River Taste Place, Essex Junction's Salt & Bubbles, or The Buttery in St. Johnsbury to shop for local wines. Ask their experienced and knowledgeable staff help you find some other local goodies to pair with your picks!