Holiday Liquor Gift Sets

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These are the bottles the shop hand-picks each year for the person who already knows what they like. It isn't everything in stock, it's a shorter list: Pappy Van Winkle Family Reserve, Blanton's Single Barrel, EH Taylor Small Batch, Eagle Rare, Johnnie Walker Blue Label. Most of the holiday gifts for bourbon lovers on this page are allocated or limited in some way, which is the point. A bourbon drinker can buy their own bottle of something that sits on every shelf. What they can't easily do is find the one that doesn't. Whiskey gifts , glassware, cigars and smaller stocking-sized things are here too. Gifts for the Bourbon Lover The honest test for a bourbon gift is whether the recipient could have bought it themselves in ten minutes. If they could, it reads as a nice gesture. If they couldn't, it reads as someone paying attention. That is why the allocated bottles lead this collection. Pappy Van Winkle's Family Reserve 23 Year ($4,199.99) is the outer edge of that, but the same logic runs down the price ladder. The Blanton's Small Batch Decanter Gift Set ($159.99) and the Blanton's Single Barrel Bourbon Gift Set ($129.99) both hand over a bottle that is genuinely hard to find in most stores. The Buffalo Trace and Blanton's Bourbon Whiskey Combo ($139.99) pairs an everyday pour with a special one, which is a useful shape when you aren't sure how deep their interest runs. Below that tier sit the single barrels and the bottle-and-glass pairings. The EH Taylor Small Batch Gift Set ($119.99) and the Buffalo Trace and Eagle Rare Cup Bundle ($119.99) are both easier to actually get hold of and land close to the same place. The wider bourbon range has more if none of these fit, and our guide to allocated and limited-edition whiskey explains why some of these bottles are so hard to buy in the first place. Gifts for the Whiskey and Scotch Drinker Scotch and bourbon drinkers get treated as one audience and they rarely are. Bourbon has to be at least 51% corn and aged in new ch