Top Customer Picks for Valentine’s Day Gifts
I know, I know. The 2011 holidays have just ended. We're all finally getting adjusted to writing 2012 at the end of our dates and most of us have whittled our list of resolutions down to 1 or 2 that we might keep up for another couple of weeks. It almost feels like there might be some time to take a deep breath and relax for a few minutes. Until you look at the calendar and realize that Valentine's Day is less that 4 weeks away!
Lucky for you (and yours), we've got you covered with a roundup of our most popular Valentine's Day Gifts. Whether you're looking for a gift that will give them a memorable experience or something that the two of you can do together, we have something that fits the bill:
New Food and Wine Experiences for the Holidays
Just before the holidays, Cloud 9 Living introduces a bundle of new Food and Wine Experiences, perfect for the foodies in your life. Whether they're in Austin or San Diego, Chicago or Boston, there's a little something new for everyone.
For the wine connoisseurs (or those who'd like to be), take a look at the Host a Wine Tasting Party in Chicago, where you and up to fourteen friends can gather in your own home to be wined and dined by a professional sommelier. The Sunset Wine Tasting Cruise in Los Angeles whisks guests to the Long Beach peninsula on a fully restored vintage sailboat, with appetizers paired to complement the four wine tastings. For a thorough introduction to the sommelier's world, check out Wine 101 in St. Louis, Portland or Denver, or get outdoors to the Private Hill Country Wine Tour in Austin's rolling, tree-dappled hills.
Experience Gifts Aren’t Just For the Boys! Experiential Birthday Gifts for Her
We hope you’ve been exposed by now to the variety of birthday experience gifts we offer. Not merely confined to dune-buggy rides in Vegas and SoCal Sport-fishing trips, Cloud 9 brings you everything from spa pedicures to niche food tours to romantic hot-air balloon rides.
Which is to say, experience gifts aren’t just for the boys.
For Mom, there are food tours and hot air balloon rides to whisk her up and/or away, if only for a few hours at a time, both available across the country. Hot air balloon rides buoy her up for an awe-inspiring change of perspective, revealing the countryside in a distinctly different light—often with a champagne toast upon landing. For foodies and culture enthusiasts, local food tours lace the always-gratifying food couture tastings with snippets of local culture and history. Check out niches like New York’s NoLIta Ethnic Food Tour or San Fran’s Gourmet on Hays tour.
New Experience Gifts for July 2011
Taste the best food truck food in Philly on our newest tour
Foodies, Rejoice!
July brings ten, count them, ten! new food and wine experience gifts. From Philly to San Francisco, from Chinatowns to Little Italy’s across the country, culinary satiation is at hand for all.
On the East Coast, check out food tours like Washington D.C.’s U Street Corridor, Georgetown, and D.C. Food Trucks, where nibbling on Cuban sandwiches and Korean tacos, you’ll be introduced to the city’s burgeoning food truck scene. Bostonians and visitors alike welcome a new wine tour in Boston, exploring the North or South Ends, Harvard Square, or Backbay restaurants and wine bars, sampling various wines while getting a little history and culture to boot.
Experience Gifts as Anniversary Gifts?
There’s nothing like a little adventure to bring your relationship back to bloom.
Recently, my partner and I drove over two thousand miles southeast across the country. Along the way, we dipped into local wineries (some featured in my last post) and meandered off interstates for glimpses of the lesser-known country. We visited friends teaching in tiny Indiana college towns and writing stage plays in Chicago lofts. We got cozy with some cicadas in Missouri and took water-skiing lessons outside of Nashville. And I can tell you first-hand that adventures—little or big, everyday or once-in-a-lifetime—kick things up a notch like nothing else can.
New Experience Gifts – April 2011
Porsches, Paddling, and Private Vineyards, Oh, My!
Now that's a celebration.
With the world outside our windows growing greener every day, it’s time to get out and revel in the springtime sunshine. This month Cloud 9 Living introduces fifteen brand new experience gifts to get you and yours out the door.
Go, baby, go!
For the adrenaline junkies, Cloud 9 presents three new thrillers. Slip into the passenger seat of a 450-horse power GT3-RS Porsche for a few heart-racing laps around the track in the Porsche Thrill Ride in Las Vegas, or ditch the passenger seat for the driver’s seat in a San Francisco Formula Car racing experience. For the big kids still fascinated by heavy machinery, kick the CAT bulldozer into gear and start moving earth around with the Las Vegas Dig This! experience.
Take a Stroll
Cloud 9 Couples Enjoying a Wine Tasting Sail in New York City
Here's a video of 3 extremely nice couples of Cloud 9 Living customers enjoying a day on the water with our Wine Tasting Sail in New York City. Several of the couples were celebrating anniversaries, and it was
Don’t Forget the Wine!
Now that we have given you the food, we can’t forget the wine!
And who better to ask than our partner Catherine Fallis. Ms. Fallis is the fifth woman in the world to have earned the title of Master Sommelier, and the first person in the world to have also earned the Advanced Certified Wine Professional title from the Culinary Institute of America.
Below are her top Thanksgiving Day Wines for under $20.
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