Here in Vancouver, we’re surrounded by so many delicious food and drink options, making it impossible to be lacking in good ideas of what to give to your family, families, and colleagues or where to order your Christmas dinner from this holiday season. Even better, shopping with local businesses is one of the best ways to support our communities.
We’ve partnered with some awesome Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³»and B.C.-based brands to highlight this season’s best locally-made food and drink gifts to give this year.
WIZE SPIRITS
Based in Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³»and launched in 2019, is the original nostalgia-inspired, sugar-free and gluten-free vodka soda brand.
With 100% Canadian ingredients, this hard soda’s recipe consists of fresh carbonated water, premium vodka, and carefully selected all-natural flavours.
Providing the ultimate throwback, Wize Spirits offers flavours inspired by the kinds of pop (and treats) you’ve loved since you were a kid, including Root Beer, Vanilla Cola, Cream Soda, Orange’sicle, and Grape’sicle.
The brand new Solo Series features one-of-a-kind flavours in limited bottled batches, including the seasonal Apple Cinnamon Crumble Pie Hard Soda, with familiar notes of juicy apple and sweet cinnamon-spice coming together in this bright and sweetener-free beverage.
This (very) limited-edition flavour is available exclusively at this holiday season. Grab a few bottles of Apple Cinnamon Crumble Pie as a festive gift for others (it makes for an awesome hostess gift and stocking stuffer) as well as for yourself to enjoy this season!
Find Wize Spirits at your nearest and locations. For more info, visit and follow @ on Instagram.
TERMINAL CITY BREWING
Photo: Terminal City Brewing.
Looking for an unforgettable experiential gift for you and your best drinking buddy? Try brewing your own craft beer, wine, or cider with !
Vancouver’s first and finest U-Brew facility allows you to be as hands-on as possible in bottling your own premium batch of your drink of choice.
You don't need to have any prior experience with home brewing, as the experts at TCB will be there to guide first-timers through the steps of handcrafting your own individual brew.
TCB’s beer production equipment is similar to that of any other small craft brewery, and their brewing process is just the same. Their all-grain brewing system and ferment-on-premises licensing lets their team customize each batch with specialty grain and hops, as well as take care of the mashing, boiling, filtering, and carbonating.
For wine, TCB has a dedicated fermentation room kept at a steady temperature, making sure that your wine is perfectly cared for from fermentation to bottling.
And since your individual batch will be for your own use, you'll also avoid commercial liquor taxes, saving you a bundle!
Not only does u-brewing make for a memorable bonding experience, you'll also have a customized takeaway to commemorate your time spent together!
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ROAD 13
Photo: Road 13.
channels the giving spirit and takes the road less travelled by farming to protect the land and keeping sustainability top of mind to produce the best fruit and wine possible.
The holiday season is sprinkled with all sorts of festive activities, and Road 13 has the gift that keeps on giving with its Happily Ever Après package. This collection of bold and bodacious wines serve as the ideal trinity perfect for following any holiday-infused activity, be it après ski, après work, après lunch or whatever suits the mood! Containing the sultry 2019 Seventy-Four K, the seductive 2019 Syrah and the captivating 2018 Cabernet Sauvignon, there’s a gift to suit every taste on your gift list.
Located in Oliver, B.C., the heart of ​​Okanagan Valley wine country, the roots of Road 13 run as deep as the grapes of their wine. Organically farmed and sourced, these wines are the product of hard work, dedication, patience and delectable dirt rich with carbonate minerals to grow and bring their flavours to life.
Grab a bottle today and experience the cultivation of big, bold flavours gathered one vine at a time.
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CEDARCREEK
Jagged Rock Sparkling Rosé. Photo: Cedar Creek
Vibrant, bright and aged to perfection, has perfected the art of creating classic, captivating, cool-climate wines.
The Jagged Rock Sparkling Rosé will make you feel as though the south Okanagan has been captured in your glass. This playfully effervescent and deliciously light Rosé will tantalize and tingle your taste buds with fresh and uplifting flavours of strawberry and pink grapefruit with a finessing finish of savoury cream. The diversity of Jagged Rock vineyard allows the viticulture team to cultivate high in tannin fruit as well as delicate and acidity-driven fruit.
Passionate and committed to organic farming, CedarCreek channels the deep appreciation and connection it has for its land to create wines that embody the diverse, refreshing and enchanting features that genuinely and authentically capture the Okanagan.
Transcend the taste buds of friends and loved ones by gifting them a bottle this holiday season!
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SEBASTIAN & CO.
Photo: Sebastian & Co.
Let the season of holiday feasting begin! And this year, you and your loved ones deserve a hearty meal filled with the finest meats and delicacies you so crave.
This Christmas, , Vancouver’s premiere butcher and producer of specialty food items, is your source for fresh and unique holiday meal and gift solutions.
With a vast selection of butcher-curated meats, hand-crafted small-batch food products (gift boxed or a la carte), local and imported charcuterie, cheeses, and other elevated party foods, and the very best dry-aged steaks in Vancouver, the European-inspired artisan butcher shop can help you make your festivities really stand-out.
For the true meat lover on your gift list, give them a gift card to Sebastian & Co, the most talked-about craft butchery in the city!
Sebastian & Co. is located in Downtown Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³»and West Vancouver. Check out for more info.
UNO GELATO
Photo: Uno Gelato
The temperatures may be getting lower, but there is never a wrong time of year for gelato!
has just what you need to satisfy any and all sweet tooths on your gift list. Enjoy the convenience of having your gifts delivered for you with Uno Gelato’s . Choose four pints and Uno Gelato will deliver to your giftee’s doorstep, FREE to anywhere in the Metro Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³»area. Who can resist free delivery during the holiday season?
For those who prefer experiences over physical gifts, a workshop is a perfect treat! Give your loved ones the gift of becoming a “cone-noisseur” of all things gelato. Led by Gelato Master Andrés Bermúdez, this 1.5-hour course comes complete with 10 gelato/sorbetto samples, a cup or cone of choice to enjoy at the class, and a take-home pint in a 2 pack carrier with the two flavours created in the class.
Uno Gelato provides an authentic experience featuring an assortment of delectable flavours of true artisan gelato, created and produced by an exceptionally talented team of local craftsmen and women. Sweeten the deal this holiday season by adding it to your gift list!
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