Let’s be honest, family and presents, Christmas is mainly about the food.
So this year, forget trawling overheated, busy stores on a fruitless search for the perfect gift (who knows what size anyone is anyway?) – getting them a Christmas hamper ticks every box.
The festive classic is a high impact gift that is guaranteed to go down well – and now there are so many to choose from, you can get just the right hamper for everyone.
From a collection of cheese to fizz, wine, beautiful cakes and biscuits and a turkey with the trimmings, here are some of the best Christmas hampers for 2019.
For The Traditionalists
The Cartwright Classic
Chock full to the brim with treats, this one covers all the bases with more than 20 of Cartwright and Butler’s most popular treats – in a lovely crate bundle.
There is traditional breakfast tea, classic Earl Grey tea and rich full-bodied café York coffee from Yorkshire. Also an assortment of Cartwright and Butler preserves, including apricot preserve, smooth acacia honey with honeycomb and the finest Yorkshire chutney. There are rosemary focaccia bread thins, olive and garlic wheat flatbreads and oven-baked tomato and basil bread thins, selection of lemon and tangerine slice sweets, Belgian chocolates, crumbling festive butter shortbread and more to satisfy a Christmas sweet tooth.
The Rosedale Luxury Christmas Hamper Large Wooden Crate, £150.00 cartwrightandbutler
The Gourmet Xmas Hamper
A great one for gourmands, this hamper includes: basil and olive oil and fig and olive oil crackers by the Fine Cheese Company along with real ale chutney by Cartwright & Butler. There is a selection of cheeses, plum chutney and a fantastic selection of chocs including salted caramel truffles and gold, frankincense and myrrh dark chocolate by Coco Chocolatier. There is also a lovely selection of biscuits, teas and fudge.
The Gourmet Christmas Hamper, £213.99, hamperlounge
The Christmas Icon
Iconic in the world of hampers, Fortnum and Mason have put together a Piccadilly Hamper that is a lovely taster of some of their most classic products: their finest examples of breakfast teas, coffees, tipples, marmalades, preserves, condiments, biscuits and chocolates – all picked, packed and ready for a festive feast
The Piccadilly Hamper, £100, fortnumandmason
The Finer Things
The Cheeseboarders
Wensleydale Creamery’s Mill Foss Hamper is new this year and it offers a great selection for cheese connoisseurs.
Included are 7 waxed truckles (Yorkshire Wensleydale, Yorkshire Wensleydale & Cranberries, Yorkshire Wensleydale & Ginger, Hot & Spicy Cheddar, Yorkshire Wensleydale & Apricots, Cheddar with Caramelised Onion and Yorkshire Cheddar), along with a Wensleydale Blue, a variety of savoury flatbreads, a Yorkshire Wensleydale Chutney, fig chutney and a fruit cake.
Thoughtfully, It also comes with a Wensleydale Creamery branded cheeseboard, cheese knife and a Wensleydale Creamery apron.
The Mill Foss Hamper, £85, Wensleydale
The Piccadilly
Britain’s leading cheesemonger for over 200 years has created a belter of a cheese hamper.
It’s their best-seller and contains a range of their house cheeses, including the Cheddar Pounder, Celtic Soft and Dorset Goat, accompanied by a sumptuous collection of accompanying preserves, chutney, biscuits and sweet treats.
Presented in a traditional wooden hamper box, it’s a lovely gift.
The Piccadilly Hamper by Paxton & Whitfield, £100, paxtonandwhitfield
The Cheese Geek
Great as a Christmas gift for all the cheese lovers in the family, equally as good for a night in on the sofa watching Netflix all by yourself. The gourmet cheese includes an Old Winchester (something like a Gouda, but better) a Westcombe Cheddar, Peri Wen (a Brie/Camembert blend and the more complex Les Hautes Terrasses. Paired wines include a Cotes Du Rhône, a crisp Chilean Cabernet Sauvignon and an Australian Merlot.
Fancy Formaccio
Formaggio Accompaniment Hamper, £67, vallebona
Festive Fruits
Woodland Animals Hamper/Tote
It’s a savoury treat-crammed hamper in a lovely woodland animal-themed tote.
Great for an after-dinner cheeseboard, it includes black garlic pickle (surprisingly tangy and delicious) as well as a cheeseboard chutney, red onion marmalade, mature cheddar and red pepper with pumpkin seeds oaty biscuits and pickled onions in cider vinegar.
Lakeland Woodland Animals Tote, £24.99, lakeland
Mrs Bridges Classic Christmas
Preserves, curds, biscuits and fudge plus chutney and relish In a smart, striped jute shopper – this one’s a great all rounder.
Mrs Bridges Classic Christmas Hamper has a nice selection of both sweet and savoury delights including Scottish raspberry and strawberry preserves, four fruit marmalade, fine cut orange marmalade, pear, apple and ginger chutney, sweet onion relish a lovely assortment of creamy fudges.
Guaranteed freshness into 2020.
Mrs Bridges Classic Christmas Hamper, £29.99, lakeland
The Festive Tipplers
A Star Attraction
This red star-shaped wicker hamper is a head turner on its own and perfect for using as a festive decoration once your lucky recipient has devoured the contents,
It includes a bag of Radfords handmade West Country Clotted Cream Fudge, roast chestnut and chive peanuts and hazelnuts and a Gold Crown mini loaf cake with a toasted marzipan topping. It also includes a mini bottle of Zonin prosecco and STAS Milk Chocolate bar embellished with chocolate stars and white chocolate swirls and sprinkles.
Star Attraction by Virginia Hayward, £24.99, virginiahayward
Gin Gifting
This luxurious gift hamper is perfect for the gin lover on your Christmas list. The ‘Rosé Sainte Marie’ hamper includes a bottle of ‘Rosé Sainte Marie’, (a new, Mediterranean inspired gin, purposefully dry in style and with no added sugar), a copper barware set (copper jigger measure, bar blade and tongs), two Copa style reusable plastic glasses, tonic waters and a Salcombe Gin jute bag.
It comes in a willow hamper basket with an antique wash finish (it’s very pretty actually).
Salcombe Gin’s ‘Rosé Sainte Marie’, £100,salcombegin
The French Spritz
Swishy and spritzy, the iconic elderflower liqueur makers at St-Germain have partnered up exclusively with Harvey Nichols to create the St-Germain French Spritz Christmas hamper.
Embodying French refinement and the festive season all in one, the luxurious hamper contains a bottle of St-Germain along with a bottle of Premier Cru Brut Champagne and a cocktail book set to guide your mixology skills to the next level.
Harvey Nichols French Spritz Gift Set, £55, harveynichols
The Whisky Hamper
If you want something that will stand out from the wicker baskets and bottles of wine, why not opt for a hamper that arrives in a classic red toolbox. Rather than DIY gear, it contains tools to build a maple syrup Old Fashioned with Woodsman whisky.
The unique box includes: a Woodsman glass, stirrer, spoon, maple syrup, bitters and a bottle of The Woodsman Whisky – the only thing you need to supply is an orange.
The Woodsman Toolbox, £38.52, amazon.co.uk (Available on Amazon Prime, so can be purchased right up until Dec 23 for Christmas Eve delivery)
Sweet Treats
Lakeland Chocoholic’s Christmas Hamper
This pretty dark blue basket is a stand-out and inside it gets even better. Chocolate-coated butter fudge, luxury Belgian chocolate thins, chocolate popcorn, chocolate orange curd, double chocolate chunk cookies, drinking fudge, truffle bites and organic chocolate-coated almonds are sure to be a hit with the sweet tooth tribe.
Lakeland Chocoholics Christmas Hamper, £39.99 lakeland
Let it be Cakemas
Hot Chocolate
If they love hot chocolate this is the one.
Whittard has created a lovely hot chocolate stacking tin hamper that features a gorgeous salted caramel flavour, a luxury white hot chocolate, a spiced Christmas classic and a classic luxury version.
Mini marshmallows also included.
Whittard’s Christmas Chocolatissimo Hamper, £88 Whittard
Ultimate Chocs
Beautiful Biccies
T’was the Niche Before Christmas
The Healthy Hamper
Revive the lost art of afternoon tea with this beautiful collection of organic teas, melt-in-your-mouth chocolates and biscuits from Planet Organic. Remind your loved ones to take the afternoon off on Christmas and indulge without the guilt.
Featuring premium organic brands Booja Booja, Island Bakery, Everfresh and more.
The Afternoon Tea Hamper from Planet Organic, £70, planetorganic
The CBD Christmas
CBD is the hot topic in wellness right now, so why not gift the special person in your life some holistic healing.
London Cannabis dispensary Canna Club has created a curated selection of their most popular CBD products in a Christmas hamper sure to calm festive stress.
Includes CBD Bath Bombs, stem cells and dermabrasion scrub, CBD chocolate, CBD honey, CBD lozenges and a nifty vape.
The Canna Club Christmas Hamper 2, £250, cannaclubuk
A Taste of Wales
The Little Welsh Wicker Hamper is a generous little guy filled to the brim with award-winning produce from the Black Mountain Smokery – smoked chicken, duck, cheddar, sausage and two kinds of smoked salmon.
It’s a delicious introduction to gourmet smoked foods – paired with a few other Welsh delicacies – that even the most seasoned foodie will enjoy.
The Little Welsh Wicker Hamper, £128, Discoverdelicious.wales
The Main Event
Turkey & Trimmings
What’s more Christmassy than taking care of Christmas dinner for them? Take the pressure off by sending out an entire turkey from Morton’s, an small, award-winning turkey farm in North Norfolk.
Their hampers include everything you’d need for the perfect Christmas lunch or dinner at home including turkey, smoked salmon, pigs in blankets, free-range pork and chestnut stuffing, smoked chicken breast, smoked duck breast and traditional Christmas pudding. They come in three sizes – small, medium and large, depending on the amount of people.
They ship nationwide via 24-hour Royal Mail delivery and orders are packed in a carton insulated with natural wool that is biodegradable. Ice packs keep the turkey safely chilled to ensure it arrives in tip top shape. All day deliver is available from Saturday 21, Sunday 22 or Monday 23 December. Alternately, you can visit the farm on 23 or 24 December to pick up your turkey.
Small Christmas Hamper from Morton’s Farm, £78, mortonsfarm
Beef Wellington
Meat Muscle Foods
Protein lovers rejoice! Musclefood have just launched their 2019 Christmas Hampers. There are eight variations to choose from including a whole British turkey, a luxury turkey breast roast, and a free-range topside roast beef.
Basically everything is in there for a festive feast for a minimum of six people for breakfast and lunch on Christmas day – including fresh veggies and gravy – with enough leftovers for Boxing Day snacking as well.
The hampers also conveniently include time-saving disposable roasting trays, so there’s no greasy pots to wash up after Christmas lunch, plus step-by-step recipes to help cook each dish with ease.
Musclefood’s Christmas Hampers, start at £59, musclefood
The Chateaubriand Box
source https://metro.co.uk/2019/12/10/definitive-guide-christmas-hampers-2019-11162329/
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