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• Personalized Wine Glasses
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• Personalized Wine Glass

The Tipsy Grape (www.thetipsygrape.com) is an online store specializing in wine-related gifts. What sets the company apart from its competitors is a wide selection of customized barware, including wine and beer glasses, decanters, bottle coolers, and champagne flutes. On the “fun” side of wine, They Tipsy Grape has wine games, aprons, books, and many other wine-themed items.

Finding the perfect gift for a wine lover can often be difficult, but The Tipsy Grape’s unique selection of giftware ensures that there is something for everyone. For a more personalized gift, custom engraved barware shows thoughtfulness are care on the part of the sender.

Ordering custom engraved barware can be tedious and costly through other outlets. The Tipsy Grape, however, makes the purchase simple and quick. Customers can order as few as a single glass and there is never a set up or design fee. The website contains a library of stock designs that you can choose from or you can upload your custom design for free. All of the company’s barware is restaurant quality, ensuring thicker glass and more sturdy designs. This helps to avoid chipping and breakage for years to come.

If you are not sure what to get the wine lover in your life, The Tipsy Grape website contains many ideas and sample engravings to get your imagination going. A set of wine glasses for the new home bar owner for example or a wine-themed apron for the budding gourmand.

Companies that are looking for unique promotional items will also find several options at The Tipsy Grape. A corporate logo and information can be added to any customizable glassware. Companies can give branded wine glasses to customers on holidays or provide a custom engraved beer pitcher as a prize at a golf tournament.

Customized glassware is also a thoughtful gift for graduations and anniversaries to commemorate the date. In fact, personalized glassware is a flexible gift for almost any occasion.

Another customer-oriented practice of The Tipsy Grape is the speed of processing and delivery once the order has been placed. The company normally ships out within one to two business days and offers ground, priority and express shipping for those who need their gift in a hurray.

Those interested in learning more about wine will benefit from The Tipsy Grape’s selection of wine-related books, including Wine for Dummies, A Moveable Thirst, and The Girls’ Guide to Wine. Reading up on wine isn’t just for gifts, either. You can learn to appreciate and enjoy wines more with this selection and be able to impress friends at the next get together.

The Tipsy Grape is a convenient and practical online source for everything to do with the grape. Seasoned wine connoisseurs and new aficionados alike will find something here that dazzles them. Browsing the website may cause you to go looking for excuses to give gifts- even to yourself.

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Graduating from college is a momentous occasion and, whether a graduation party is held or not, giving a gift to the new graduate is a common and thoughtful gesture. Knowing what to get a new college grad can be perplexing and frustrating. Some new graduates will need basic household items like kitchenware and linens if they are setting up house for the first time in their lives. Some will appreciate business gifts like briefcases, or planners if they will be starting their first job. But none of these gifts cover the whole spectrum and, if you are not sure what situation the graduate will be in, it can be difficult to find the right gift.

There is, however, one gift that is appreciated in any situation and that shows that the giver has taken the time to personally select it for the graduate: customized engraved glassware. A set of wine or beer glasses with the giftee’s name on it will last for years. It has the benefit of being practical and also has the personalized touch that will make it stand out in the graduate’s memory for years.

Glass With a Twist (www.glasswithatwist.com) is an online retailer that specializes in customized engraved barware, including wine and beer glasses, martini glasses, beer pitchers, “bomb” sets, and champagne flutes. Every type of glass needed to set up one’s first home bar can be found here.

A simple bar set can be set up for a graduation gift easily. Eight of each type of glass is a good quantity for the graduate to be able to entertain. A bar set could consist of eight wine glasses, eight beer glasses, eight martini glasses, eight cocktail glasses, a beer pitcher and four shot glasses. Glass With a Twist has several styles and sizes of each type of glass to choose from.

You can customize the bar set in a number of different ways. First, decide what you want printed on the glasses. It can be something as simple as the graduate’s name- “Glenn’s Bar” for example. Or you can have each glass personalized with a different quote from writers, poets, or even movie bad guys. Personalizing with different sayings also facilitates guests remembering which glass is theirs.

Next, you can choose from Glass With a Twist’s extensive catalogue of graphics to add a design element to the glasses or you can submit your own artwork for them to work with. There are no extra set up or design charges either way. You can also choose from several fonts to give the glassware a themed look, whether it is classic, 50’s style or Gothic.

Ordering from Glass With a Twist is simple with their easily-navigable website. You can make your choices from the pull-down menus and order directly from the site. If you have questions, customer service representatives are available to guide you. Your order will be custom made and shipped within one to two business days, which means you do not have to place your order weeks in advance.

Giving a personalized bar set to a new college graduate will be a treasured- and most likely well-used- gift.