Words by Helena Nicklin
With Mother’s Day right around the corner, I wanted to share some of the cheeky treats that have caught my eye over the past month. Be it subscriptions, bottles, chocolates or glassware, there is a little something here to suit everyone, whether you are a mum or not!
Stir-Up Cocktail Subscription Membership
How about getting her a cocktail subscription box for 1, 3 or 6 months? Each smart Stir-Up box contains the ingredients needed to make 4 cocktails and is delivered directly to the recipient’s door with easy to follow instructions included. Learn how to mix a new classic cocktail each month and discover fun facts about the drink, the best place to drink them, and enjoy their curated playlist to put you in the mood for stirring and shaking. There’s also a follow along ‘how to’ video for each month’s featured cocktail.
Find here: £29.95 a month
Women & Wine prints
I discovered Judith Clara on Instagram recently and fell in love with her Women & Wine prints, each drawn by hand in a single stroke. Choose from red or white wine, landscape or portrait formats and three different sizes. I bought three to make a trilogy! They are just beautiful and it’s a great way to support an up and coming artist.
Find here: From 15 EUR
Gosnell’s BEE KIND TO YOURSELF bundle
Created by the team behind the premier modern mead brand Gosnells, this little bundle of luxury includes two mead-scented bath bombs, a beeswax candle, a can of chilled mead and a mini pot of orange blossom honey. Hops have long been used in beer (and mead) production, but they have relaxing properties of their own and Hibiscus Flowers can be used in skin treatments to give a stunning, natural youth-boost! Choose your bundle in either Hopped green or Hibiscus pink and get a handwritten note with it.
Find here: £16 (+p&p)
Set of 2 Geometric Glasses
Perfect for making any drink feel like a treat, even a simple glass of water! I love this pair of gold, geometric glasses from Root7. Thick, 100% hand-blown glass gives them a sturdy feel while the lip has been crafted to provide a satisfying drinking experience. Available with a gold edge or a matte black edge.
Find here: £20.75
Laylo - Beautiful Boxed Wine
Boxed wine can be beautiful both inside and out and a box is infinitely more sustainable than heavy glass bottles. This delicious, easy-drinking Rioja punches well above its price tag and looks beautiful on your countertop at the same time. The first in the range, the Laylo team source the wines directly from smaller producers they know and love and are dedicated to more environmentally packaging. The wine also stays fresh for up to six weeks - not that you will have much left by then!
Find here. £34.99
Wild Life Botanicals - Ultra-low alcohol ‘Bubbles with Benefits’
The perfect fizz when you want a drink but don’t want the hangover. These two, immensely refreshing 0.5% alcohol wines have super fine, elegant bubbles and complex aromas and flavours from a plethora of benefit-giving herbs and extractions, from Ashwagandha to Zinc. There is a sweetness there but not too much and they really do feel like a treat. They comes in white (nude) and blush (rosé) and are beautifully packaged. Perfect for gifts and super with Sunday lunch.
Find here: £15 each
Amedei Chuao Chocolate X Gusbourne Sparkling Rosé
Cartografie are the new, sophisticated chocolatiers in town who think of terroir for chocolate just like winemakers do for wine. In this limited edition Mother’s Day pack, Kae and Sven have taken the silkiest Venezuelan chocolate from Amedei, turned it into a water ganache with a slight sprinkle of sea salt and perfumed it with an English blackcurrant eau de vie from Capreolus. It’s fruity and tangy with a thin shell. They say “think about a kirsch chocolate bonbon but with flavours of an English country garden.” Yum! Match these 12 gorgeous, hand-made chocolates with a bottle of one of England’s finest sparkling rosé wines from Gusbourne in Kent. Gift wrapping available too.
Find here: £35 for the Chocolates or £80 with the Gusbourne too
100 Prosecco Recipes Book + Bottega Prosecco Gold Bottle
From aperitifs to desserts, this book is a collection of recipes accompanied by many stories and curiosities. More than that though is a journey through the Prosecco hills, just north of Venice. Put together by Sandro Bottega of the well-loved Prosecco brand Bottega. Proud of the land and the riches it offers, Sandro wanted to pay homage to the straightforward, hard-working people who live there and who have created and still preserve its cuisine and its culture. With its stunning, mirrored gold cover, it makes the perfect gift along with the iconic golden bottle itself.
Find the Bottega Gold Prosecco gift pack with two glasses here: £34.99
Find the recipe book here
Kylie Minogue Wild Rosé Hamper
A perfectly pitched, limited edition hamper where every touch was personally selected by Kylie herself. Inside the large wicker hamper with its hand embroidered lining and detail, you’ll find a bottle of Kylie Minogue Côtes de Provence Rosé, her Signature Rosé, a Kylie corkscrew, 2 bespoke wine glasses, the Fine Cheese Co English farmhouse cheddar, chutneys for fig fruit, rosemary & sea salt dark chocolate, Yorkshire chardonnay crisps, Yorkshire sweet and salty popcorn, rosemary olive oil, orange candy and mandarin orange crisps. Bring it on!
Find here: £149