For the wine lover who has everything, you may want to focus your time on finding the best wine gift gadgets that double as perfect stocking stuffers.
1. Wine Charms and More!
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Wine charms may just be the perfect stocking stuffer. They are cheap, cute, versatile, and can be tailored to incorporate other hobbies that your wine lover enjoys (i.e. tools, cats, dogs, Christmas themes, golf, surfing, beads, and the list goes on...). What more could you ask for? Price: $6-25
2. Vacu-Vin Gift Pack
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This nifty little gig will allow you to preserve your opened wine for several days (the claim is up to a week, but a full week is pushing it a bit). The kit comes with one pump (to remove air from the bottle) and two stoppers. Price: $14
3. Christmas Themed Wine Accessories
Very fun, Christmas themed wine accessories would be a hit in virtually any stocking. Check out the festive bottle stoppers and wine cork wreaths.4. Wine Lover's Chocolate Tins
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The Wine Lover Chocolate Tins are an easy way to perfectly pair wine and chocolate. These tins of chocolate drops offer varying degrees of chocolate intensity to pair with specific wines. Each eye-catching tin of chocolate is appropriately labeled for each varietal - making your job of tasting easier than ever. A top-pick gift idea for stocking stuffers - Wine Lover's Chocolate Tins!
5. Wine Aroma Kit - Le Nez du Vin (french for "The Nose of Wine")
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While wine aromas are often thrown out and about in oenophile conversations, few casual wine lovers have devoted the time to truly learning and discerning the different aromas that waft out of their glass. This clever kit comes in three versions: 12 aromas, 24 aromas, and 54 aromas - and contains individual bottles that conveniently cover aromas from fruits, flowers and spices that are most prominent in both red and white wines. Note this may or may not quite fit in the typical stocking, depending on how you package it! Price: $100-400
6. Cork Stoppers
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What wine enthusiast can't use another fun stopper for their bottle of wine? Choose from an assortment of stopper thems from a variety of vendors. Price: $5+
7. Wine Teasers
Check out these wine teasers the next time you are at Barnes & Noble. They are a fun way to boost your wine education by combining trivia and "car game" style questions. There are a total of 50 cards with plenty of hints to get the novice through and plenty of questions to test the mettle of the aficionado. Price: $128. Wine-themed Cuff Links
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For the sophisticated connoisseur who is always getting dressed up, he may appreciate being able to spice up his spiffy duds with a hint of his hobby. These cufflinks featuring wine grapes, red wine, corkscrews and more. Price: $30+
9. RAVI Instant Wine Chiller
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The RAVI instant wine chiller is basically a tube of stainless steel that you keep in your freezer and use to pour wine through to bring it down to the right serving temperature. Price: $45
10. A Bottle of Wine
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If you have run out of time to be creative, then a bottle of favored wine will fit in 99% of the stockings hung by the chimney with care. K&L Wines offers a fantastic selection of well-priced wines and if you print out the wine write up you can add that to the stocking as well for additional vino education! Price: $5 to 600+
