serious wine geek in your life (which may indeed be you) what better than 
But if Wine Grapes is too thick (1,242 pages), too heavy (7 lb/3 kg) or too expensive (£120/$175 reduced to around £76/$110 online from Amazon), then how about the beautiful But if both of these are two solid, here's a suggestion for a gift that weighs
practically nothing, does not involve going into a shop and lasts all year. A gift subscription to our Purple Pages, of course. Membership of our very friendly community of wine lovers costs £69 for 12 months' unlimited access to nearly 10,000 articles and 75,000 fully searchable wine reviews, as well as the only online version of The Oxford Companion to Wine and all the maps from The World Atlas of Wine.
Just click here and once you sign up you will be sent a code that you can share with the lucky recipient as and when you wish their Purple Pages membership to start.
If you'd like something physical to hand over, just email our membership supremo Rachel Shaughnessy at subscriptions@jancisrobinson.com with the name and address to which you'd like one of the handsome gift cards shown here to be sent.
