Mother's Day Gift Baskets

With Mother’s Day quickly approaching, its important to start thinking about the perfect gift basket for your mom. Spa gift baskets are becoming increasingly popular amongst women, because they include items that they are accustomed to using on a daily basis, such as: shower gel, scented hand/body lotion, fragrance soap, and other items that make them look and feel beautiful. One of our favourite spa gift baskets, named the “Custom Spa Basket” contains all of the above, plus so much more! Combs, brushes, slippers, and bath beeds accompany the usual set of wonderful shower gels and body lotions. This is a must have for any Mom on your list!

Of course, you can never go wrong with an elegant wine gift basket, or sweet gift basket containing all of your Mom’s favourite chocolates and candies. All of these are great choices for a Mother’s Day gift basket.

Guidelines for a perfect Red Wine Gift Basket

Designing a wine gift basket is tricky, because in addition to providing the perfect wine bottle for that special someone, you also want to include foods that they can enjoy with their wine. White wines and red wines go well with different kinds of foods, and although everyone has different tastes, generally there is a consensus has to which foods go well with red/white wine. In terms of a wine gift basket, these foods must also be perishable so that they will keep over the several days that is required to ship the gift basket.

Here is a set of guidelines for designing that perfect red wine gift basket:

1. Cheese please! Cheeses (in particular, strong cheeses) go perfect with red wine. French cheeses are also amazing with red wine. Crackers can also be included to compliment both the cheese and wine.

2. From the ocean. All types of seafood go well with red wine -- any good seafood restaurant will have some of the best red wine the world has to offer -- if it doesn't, it probably isn't a very good seafood restaurant. The key, in terms of gift baskets, is to keep this perishable, such as smoked salmon.

3. For the sweet tooth. Believe it or not, chocolate goes really well with red wine and is perfect for any gift basket. What person doesn't like chocolate? This is a *must* when it comes to creating a wine gift basket.

4. Fruits. Any way that fruits or fruit flavouring can be incorporated into the gift basket is a good way to spice up your wine gift basket. Fruit candies or dried fruit work perfectly, especially for the fruit lover on your list.

At BelenGiftAndBasket.ca, we've used these guidelines to create several great red wine gift baskets. Our favourite, by far, is a red wine gift basket that we like to call the "Style Statement". This stylish gift basket is packaged in a beautiful magazine holder that can be used to enhance any reading area in a home. It contains many of the key components to any good red wine gift basket, including gourmet French cheese, Godiva chocolates, Wild glazed smoked salmon, black olive crackers, fruit snacks and much, much more. We've taken pride in designing this unique, elegant gift basket for all to enjoy!

Gift Baskets to the USA

We also have another gift baskets website which was set up to cater solely to our customers in the USA:

gift baskets to the USA

Our primary shipping location is in New York, NY, however we ship all across the USA. We have received lots of positive feedback about our USA site, so please visit us and tell us what you think!

Wine Gift Baskets

At BelenGiftAndBasket.ca, we specialize in wine gift baskets! Our goal is to be the world's largest online wine gift basket company. Based in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, we offer fast delivery across Canada and the USA. We also offer international shipping as well.

Our most popular gift basket is the Grand Sophisticate. It consists of gourmet chocolate-covered almonds, delicious bread dipper, antipasto, rainforest crips along with a superb bottle of white wine. It is the ultimate wine gift basket.