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The Best Festive Wine Gifts For Christmas 2010

Get into the spirit with some vino-themed gifts for the wine lovers in your life. With all the dinners and parties, you’re sure to pop open a bottle or two in celebration. This list brings together some of the newest, and most colorful wine accessories on the market – nothing stuffy or overpriced, just red, green and gold.

A Colorful Wine Aerator

Some wine aerators come in four jewel-toned colors, including ruby red and emerald green. Wine aerators help bring out the flavors and mellow the tannins in your favorite bottles, without needing to decant a bottle hour ahead of time.

Many Wine Aerators are uniquely versatile in that you can adjust the settings for a full bottle, or a single glass pour. Buy one in each of the Christmas colors, and wow your party guests with 32 streams of wine flowing alone the sides of their glass. These aerators are made of sturdy polycarbonate and dishwasher safe, so it’s sure to last well beyond the holiday season.

Cranberry Glass

Also known as Gold Ruby glass, cranberry glass is created when gold chloride is added to molten glass, creating a range of dazzling hues from bright ruby red, to watered, berry-blush. Cranberry glass is often used in decanters, wine glasses and candy dishes – check out your local antique store or salvation army for festive, meaningful pieces that don’t break your holiday budget. Ruby red wine glasses make a huge statement on a festive table, one your guests won’t soon forget.

Green Label Rieslings

Deinhard Green Label Riesling is a well-rated, sweet German white wine with lots of fruit and citrus notes. Riesling is a holiday favorite thanks to it’s easy to drink, young taste without the hints of oak that often turn off occasional wine drinkers. The best part, this wine usually retails for $10-$12 per bottle – make it your green hostess gift with a red ribbon this season and make a sophisticated statement.

Festive Wine Glass Charms

Available online or at your local wine vendor, these tiny wire charms help your friends and family claim their wine glasses while adding a pop of festive color and design to their glasses. Look for Christmas tree, stars, Santa’s and wrapped presents among the holiday charm designs, or make your own using twist ties or elastics with festive gift tags. Stay organized by literally charming your guests.

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What is the best, environmentally friendly, way to recycle used wine bottle corks?

I have just been turning over a compost heap which we started using 5 years ago and finished using 2 years ago. It took all our organic kitchen waste as well as garden rubbish. Everything we put in it has rotted down nicely – except the wine bottle corks, which have emerged almost unaltered.

What Are Creative Ways to Recycle Wine Cork?

If the concept of wine cork recycling catches on, recycling wine cork in the US may someday be as simple as recycling newspapers or soda cans. In the meantime, however, those who live in America can recycle their wine corks through a few creative means.

While some people have donated wine corks to children’s museums, for use in displays and dioramas, others have made wreaths and decorative pieces out of old wine corks. Some people wire together wine corks and make hot pads while others suggest gluing sliced wine corks to the bottom of vases and knickknacks, as a means to keep these items from scratching tables and shelves. People have even found old wine corks useful as door stops, knife scrubbers, and pin cushions.

Just as wine should never go to waste, neither should wine corks. A highly useable material, there are several ways wine corks can be recycled, even if it’s not routinely done on a national level. With all the kinds of packaging that can destroy the Earth, cork is an exception. A special material, cork is able to protect wine and the world by putting a stop to wastefulness.

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