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If you're anything like me, you may have been cowed into inaction like a rabbit in the headlights by the fearsome prospect of choosing Christmas presents/gifts for the holidays.

If you are still desperately casting around for a present for a wine drinker, it is not too late to buy a gift membership of our Purple Pages. For £69 (or about $112, 85 or Aus$107) you can give 12 months' unlimited browsing of every nook and cranny of our award-winning website, updated daily and widely respected for its complete independence and lack of ads, sponsorship or jiggery pokery (see our code of ethics written in 2009).

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If you'd like something physical to hand over, just email our membership supremo Rachel Shaughnessy at
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