The ultimate gift guide for Christmas 2023
The Festive Season has arrived, and if you’re ahead of the game, you’re already mapping out the perfect presents and activities for when your home buzzes with loved ones. This year we’ve teamed up with Santa to bring you a sneak peek at some of the most exciting gift options for Christmas 2023.
For the family
A gift for the table
Cape Island’s Christmas range is all the rage. With beautiful celebratory crackers, stunning mini diffusers and more on offer, you will most certainly be able to wow your guests with a beautifully set Christmas table this year.
Let the boardgames keep’em busy
If your family enjoys playing boardgames and having a healthy dose of fun over the festive season, the award-winning game, Dixit comes highly recommended. In both English and Afrikaans, it is a great illustrated game of creative guesswork, where your imagination unlocks the tale. Players use the beautiful imagery on their cards to bluff their opponents and guess which image matches the story. Honestly, this game is for anyone whom you share a common language with. Also, the rules are easy enough for children and adults to understand.
Festive holiday coffees
Enhance that warm Christmas companionship with coffees fit for families. Nespresso South Africa has just launched a stunning new festive season range with limited edition coffees and accessories, perfect for gifts (or to spoil guests with when they visit this holiday). Choose between Frosted Caramel Nut, Seasonal Delight Spices and Festive Black. Also check out the limited-edition porcelain cups from the festive 2023 Accessories range.
Double Insulated Flask
Carrol Boyes is always reinventing the wheel, while continuously catering to their elite clientele. This includes their stunning double insulated flasks which come with different designs. These are bound to have granny grinning and are the perfect gifts for moms who often find themselves next to the netball, hockey, rugby or soccer field.
Wine lovers, unite
What is the Festive Season without wine and a hint of heritage? It’s ultimately the time to celebrate family. So, what better way to do that than with a legendary wine that has been bringing friends and families together for over seven decades? While all Roodeberg’s red wines are tailor-made for rich and juicy meat off the coals, winemaker James Ochse loves their award-winning Reserve blend. It goes very well with a flavourful pork neck cooked slowly in a kettle braai. Now, if that’s not a family meal worth travelling across the continent for, we don’t know what is. Roodeberg’s Reserve 2020 was awarded Double Gold at this year’s Veritas Awards and should be a rather easy find during your Christmas shopping spree.
Plate it perfectly
Poetry’s crockery range is something special. With lots of texture and lots of prettiness going around, this is not only a great add-on to your own crockery collection, but also a lovely gift for those starting to gather some trousseau.
Beauty on and beyond the beach
Beauty in a box
BeautySouthAfrica recently launched its first-ever beauty box, complete with fourteen editor-approved beauty products that are sure to elevate anyone who received this gift’s beauty regime. It includes skincare, makeup and hair products, as well as fragrances. Also, the product selection is suitable for all skin types and tones.
Get your glow on with this gift
The Festive Season in South Africa is known for its beautiful summer days. Share the gift of glowing with your loved ones, by gifting the girls with a contouring stick from MyEasyGlow. Apart from it being quite a clever makeup gadget with press and click manoeuvres that allow the brushes to pop out, as well as genius magnets that allow the highlighter and bronzer to stay put, we think it’s a trendy gift for the stylish ladies out there who like to always look on point.
Deposit some colour
Moroccanoil’s Color Depositing Mask is the ideal product to keep at hand this holiday and it poses as a great gift too. It’s a temporary colour treatment with the benefits of a deep conditioning mask – perfect for pampering after long days on the beach. It comes in various shades and enhances vibrancy and dimension. Finally, it also helps to stretch your colour between salon visits.
For the travellers (and those who know something we don’t)
Jump(er) for joy!
The Jumper for Joy jersey is a fun Christmas gift for those travelling abroad to make us jealous with white Christmas family photos. Or, for those who know something we don’t – climate change is real. Nonetheless, it’s a happy family kind of gift with all the right juju and we’re all for it. The feel-good, lightweight knitted jersey was created by Jonsson Workwear in collaboration with local personality, Dan Nicholl and it’s all about spreading festive cheer where it’s needed most. Profits from the sale of each Jumper for Joy will contribute to the work done by Reach for a Dream and The Jonsson Foundation.
Travel with Thule
Thule recently expanded and refreshed its Thule Paramount Bag collection for active city life. It includes new versatile features and styles that make getting around in town more effortless – think hopping on and off of the Gautrain in style. The bags’ clean, modern styling and rich earth-tone colours are perfect for a business casual day at the office, or a meetup with friends after work. Colours include Nutria Beige, Soft Green and Black. The range now also has backpacks, crossbodies and versatile tote bags.
A tech gift for the trendy traveller
Logi Tech’s Wireless Pebble 2 Combo is a stylish add on to any trendy typist’s desk. The mouse is lightweight and incredibly comfortable under your hand, while the keyboard – which takes some getting used to – completes the combo perfectly. It’s compact and easy to travel with, which makes it ideal for the digital nomads out there and it comes in this stunning rose gold colour, which we love.
Check out our review on it here.
Love-inspired gifts
Loves, unboxed
Give that special person in your life a love-inspired gift this Christmas with Pandora’s new Loves, unboxed range. The range is all about giving a loved one a meaningful jewellery piece they can cherish into the new year and beyond. Plus, it comes with a unique take on classic jewellery motifs like precious hearts, celestial symbols and festive characters.
Magically fragrant
Louis Vuitton recently released their latest fragrance, called Myriad, which falls under the Louis Vuitton Les Extraits collection. The collection was born in 2021, when the brand orchestrated an exceptional meeting between its master perfumer, Jacques Cavallier Belletrud and the legendary architect, Frank Gehry. In essence, it elevates perfume to the level of high art. The magical fragrance boasts the perfect gift for that special someone this Christmas.
Accessorise
Nothing says I love you like a pretty pair of earrings. Old Khaki’s earrings are trendy and speaks holiday with fresh colours.
For late night drinks with dad
Glenmorangie A Tale of Tokyo
Glenmorangie has just launched a new variant – Glenmorangie A Tale of Tokyo – making it the perfect, on-trend gift for dad. Combining bright, bold flavours with soft sweetness, this whisky is a Highland single malt Scotch whisky as full of delicious sensory contrasts as Tokyo itself. You might not be able to fly dad to Tokyo for Christmas, but this gift will surely transport his senses.
Highland Park Whisky
Highland Park has been crafting award-winning, lightly-peated whisky since 1798 in Orkney, Scotland. For them, much of what makes them stand out is influenced by casks and the maturation period. That, and the unmistakable smoky sweetness driven by Orkney’s uniquely heather-rich peat. It’s no wonder that their Highland Park15 Year Old is such a grand gift this Christmas. Godron Motion, Master Whisky Maker selected mainly sherry seasoned European oak casks to bring a balance of sweet vanilla and added just a few refill casks to soften and smooth the flavours, choosing to bottle at 44% ABV to allow the whisky’s vibrant fruitiness and distinctive heathery peat to shine through. Ultimately, this whisky is rich and complex, perfect for the holiday season. Find it here.
Art of Duplicity Coffee Liqueur
Made from honey processed coffee and a rhum Agricole base, this liqueur comes with an aromatic and lingering flavour. In fact, on top of coffee and vanilla, it boasts light spices, red fruits and an almost liquorice aftertaste. Pair it with salted caramel, espresso and orange juice for a fun twist on the classic coffee martini.
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