Curate Personalised Cocktail Gifts That Are Going To Wow The Receiver
Curating cocktail presents for the bonafide connoisseur is no mean feat. It requires much thought and careful execution in order that the final hamper furnished for gifting contains all the elements required to build at least 2 to 3 different cocktails – tailored to the preferences of the mixology enthusiast. What’s more, this cocktail apparatus can no longer be generic.
In fact, those days when you got brownie points simply for bringing a bottle of wine to a party are long gone. Now, it’s all about curating personalised presents which reflect the thought you put into understanding the cocktail preferences and personality of your giftee. This is where certain hacks come in handy which can first enable you to deconstruct the personality of the giftee, before you start putting a hamper together that will genuinely wow the receiver.
Read on below for some essential tips that might work their charm as you curate a personalised cocktail present for a connoisseur of mixology and cocktail craft:
Deconstruct The Cocktail Personality
This step is possible only if you know your giftee well. Based on your conversations, their social media posts and likes and the cocktails they might have ordered when you stepped out, you can figure out if your gift needs to cater to a zesty minimalist or a deep, smoky storyteller, an experimentalist or an aesthetic desi artist. Once that is decoded, break this personality down to decipher what flavours and ingredients best reflect these characteristics and start building cocktail gifts around them.
Make It Interactive
To make the cocktail gifts reflect this thought behind their curation, make the gifts as interactive as possible. If your giftee is a connoisseur of fine whiskies, present them with 2-3 small bottles of different kinds of this spirit and the mixers required to blend cocktails. Along with this, add a tasting card to the gift box with columns for taste, finish, flavour, aroma and other categories. The connoisseur can then rate the whisky cocktails on this scorecard. Cocktail-making also becomes more interactive with a theme, a creative garnish kit and even with a QR code that directs the giftee to a virtual mixology video.
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Write Little Notes And Wrap Well
What makes this customised cocktail kit shine, along with cocktail apparatus and eclectic mixology ingredients is a nice presentation. Wrap the gift like you mean business, using strings and paper cut outs. Write little personalised notes to accompany the gifts which talk about each element in short, witty ways to construct the figure of the whole cocktail ensemble explaining how all the different gifts are woven together to suit the personality of the giftee.
Build The Basket Thoughtfully
Making a personalised cocktail gift is as much about adding the right kind of ingredients to the kit as about introducing it with just an edgy flourish. It is quite alright to add limes to a basket for someone who is fond of citrusy flavours in cocktails. But what takes this gift up a notch is the inclusion of housemade kokum syrup, tangy tamarind syrup or even an acidic gondhoraj lime, which will enable the connoisseur to build cocktails with more varied tangy and sour flavours.
Add The ‘Wow’ Factor
And most importantly, the cocktail gift should be such that it wows the receiver. This means it needs to have that one element, that one bit which tips this gift over the edge. One such element could be a premium bottle of vodka or tequila, budget permitting. Something like a gold-plated jigger or a glass cocktail stirrer or a personalised shaker with the giftee’s initials engraved on it can also build that wow factor into your cocktail gift. This element can also come through in the form of some rather quirky tools like a glittery stirrer, edible glitter, brightly coloured mixers, sparkly cocktail umbrellas and more.
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