It’s now rude to bring wine to a dinner party – here are the trendy items to take instead
With one of these brilliant presents in tow, you’ll be welcome back any time
We are increasingly choosing to take a bottle of olive oil rather than a bottle of wine as a gift for the host when we go round for dinner, according to the new Waitrose Food & Drink report. I've been doing this for years, in part because, given that I write about wine for a living, I'm always keen to avoid looking like a cheapskate who might just have turned up with a free sample. But I've noticed that friends are also moving away from taking wine as a gift; perhaps because there's an assumption that the host will have sorted the drinking, perhaps because it's just so hard to get it right.
I've often trawled the supermarket looking for a beautiful tin of biscuits or cheese biscuits to gift and, finding nothing, wondered why the retailers are missing such an obvious trick. However, Ocado has the Peter's Yard Sourdough Cracker Selection Tin. I also love The Drinks Bakery Discerning Drinker's Gift Set which has four different luxury savoury biscuits to pair with drinks.
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