On the first day of Christmas my true love gave to me:

a calendar from Wine4.Me!

Yes I am doing a holiday gift guide this December!

I’m also featuring lots of sparklers this month starting with rose from five countries around the world followed by three posts with bubbles from Italy to get us feeling festive in this most unusual year!

To get the 2020 Gift Guide going, how about this educational,. colorful, inexpensive, and whimsical wine calendar created by my friend Amy Gross with stands made by her husband and his dad? And under $25!

I met Amy way back in 2012 at the Wine Media Conference in Oregon, and we’ve stayed in touch ever since. 

Amy’s spouse and FIL made the blocks.

“I created the calendar as a fun way for people to see what the wines they love taste like,” Amy tells me. “So often people have a hard time describing what they like in wine. This way, they can take a sip and then take a look at the calendar and hopefully get a better idea of just what it is they may be tasting.”

On her website, Amy writes, “Learn about most popular grape types and their flavor profiles each month of the year with this whimsical wine grape desk or countertop calendar.” Every month showcases a different grape and profiles the wine using a water-color style. Wine4.Me also suggests wines from the featured grape. 

The calendars measure 5″ x 7″ and come with the wooden block holder. Plus, as Amy is from the Houston area,  10% of the purchase price from every calendar will be donated to a Houston-area food bank.

And if you don’t know about Amy’s Wine4.Me app, you should definitely check it out!

Her site has some fun videos also including this one with Craig Camp about biodynamic Troon Vineyard in Oregon; you can really tell that Amy knows her stuff about wine AND that her degree is in journalism. 

Watch her YouTube channel, she suggests, where “I’ll be featuring wines each month on Wine4.Me and on our YouTube channel that coordinate.”

Here’s another example from the calendar, this one for September which is appropriate since Thursday September 2 is Cabernet Day!

I just LOVE Amy’s creativity and this calendar is such a fun example. I am looking forward to enjoying mine in 2021!

Stay tuned and SUBSCRIBE for more ideas for the wine lover in your life this holiday season!  

PS Also, as this is Giving Tuesday, while you have that credit card out, why not drop some dollars for MusiKaravan? Check out their new video below! 

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