A Wine Gift That’s Good Enough for Aficionados

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For some people, a nice bottle of wine seems like an appropriate birthday or anniversary or hostess gift. After all, the recipient drinks lots wine and can smell even the slightest hint of caramel in a glass of pinot. He or she may even own a special wine refrigerator or two.

You know the type of person I'm talking about. You probably also know-somewhere, deep down-that you shouldn't actually give a bottle of vino to this person. Unless you're Gary Vaynerchuk.

My wine aficionado mother-in-law is one of these people. So when my husband and I set out to find her one last Christmas gift during our honeymoon in San Francisco and Napa this December, we saw a lot of bottles of wine and wine gadgets we knew we shouldn't buy her.

That is, until we visited The Gardener at the Ferry Building in San Francisco. There, we found this circular wine cork trivet:

Photo via Amazon.com

The trivet is comprised of eight corkscrews, each of which holds one cork. We knew my mother-in-law would have no problem filling the trivet, but we offered to help anyway. She accepted, and over the course of a family trip in Colorado, we filled out a good chunk of the trivet.

That's exactly the kind of thing this trivet is perfect for. It's a DIY memory keeper of sorts-one that's even more special when you help the recipient make it. You could use it to save corkscrews from bottles of wine consumed on each anniversary, each birthday, or with a special person or persons. And hey, you just might get to drink some good bottles of wine while you're at it.

While The Gardener isn't selling these trivets on their Web site, they are available on Amazon through Lily's Home here for $12.49, plus shipping. (That's actually a few dollars less than what we paid.)

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