Raise a glass to the festive season with a selection of alcohol advent crackers, calendars and Tipsy Trees. From artisan gin and premium tonics to whisky, fine wine, fizz and beer, the experts at First 4 Hampers (www.first4hampers.com) have perfect advent calendars for grown-ups to enjoy.  

Luxury Advent Crackers

Start the festivities with a bang and choose from either a luxury gin, flavoured gin or whisky cracker shaped advent calendar. Behind each door of the giant cracker there is a different 5cl bottle of artisan spirit.

The gin cracker contains brands from around the UK such as The Lakes Gin, Poetic License, Jawbox Gin and Masons alongside well-known brands such as Whitley Neill. Christmas truly be-gins here!

The flavoured gin cracker contains gins and gin liqueurs including Bramley Gage Organic Sloe Gin, Sweet Potato Spirit Co. Raspberry Gin Liqueur, Poetic License Fireside Gin Mulled Winter Fruit, The Lakes Rhubarb and Rosehip Gin Liqueur, Wilkin & Son English Rhubarb Gin Liqueur, Masons Dry Gin Lavender Edition and Whitley Neill Quince Gin.   

The whiskey cracker contains a combination of malts and blends from around the country.

Available from www.first4hampers.com for £125.00

Tall & Tiny Tipsy Trees™

A perfect gift for wine, prosecco, beer and spirit lovers – the Tipsy Tree™ provides the opportunity to customise your tree with a favourite tipple. The large wooden, reusable calendar can hold any mix of 187ml wines, 20cl sparkling wines, prosecco and champagnes, 275ml – 330ml beers and ales, or soft drinks including tonics. Meanwhile, the Tiny Tipsy Tree™ holds most 5cl spirits. 

The Tipsy Trees can be bought fully stocked or without alcohol if you'd prefer to mix your own festive selection. The sturdy wooden trees pack flat so they can be used to spread Christmas cheer year-on-year.

Available at www.first4hampers.com from £24.99 – £140.00 depending on tree size and drinks included:

• Tipsy Tree Tall, no alcohol £29.99
• Tipsy Tree Tall with sparkling wine (24x20cl) £140
• Tipsy Tree Tall with wine (24x187ml) £85
• Tipsy Tree Tall with beer (24x330/275ml) £80
• Tiny Tipsy Tree, no alcohol £24.99
• Tiny Tipsy Tree with flavoured gin (24x5cl) £140
• Tiny Tipsy Tree with London dry gin (24x5cl) £140
• Tiny Tipsy Tree with whisky (24x5cl) £140

Fizz Advent Calendar

Start the celebrations early with our Prosecco and sparkling wine advent calendar. Each door reveals a 20cl bottle of sparkling wine including Prosecco, Cava and Sparkling Pinot Rose. An extra-special treat lies behind the door for the 24th – a 20cl bottle of Lanson Champagne.

Available from www.first4hampers.com for £125.00

Beer Advent Calendar

Get the beers flowing with an Adnams' advent calendar!  Containing a mix of 24 bottles and cans from the brilliant Suffolk brewery, Including the pale ale Ghost Ship, the Blackshore Stout Can, Clementine and Southwold Bitter, this advent calendar is the perfect present for all beer boffins. 

Available from www.first4hampers.com for £65.00

Wine Advent Calendar

Get set for Christmas while sampling wines from around the globe. The calendar contains 24 quarter-bottles (187ml) of specially selected red, white and rose wines with a bottle of mulled wine to enjoy on Christmas Eve.

Available from www.first4hampers.com for £69.99

Gin and premium tonics advent calendar

Perfect for gin aficionados, this calendar features a 70cl bottle of gin - The Lakes Gin by the multi award-winning Lakes Distillery - and a different premium tonic behind each door of the advent calendar.

Mouth-watering tonics include Fever Tree Aromatic Tonic, Fentiman's Valencian Orange Tonic, Double Dutch Pomegranate and Basil Tonic, Franklin and Sons' Elderflower with Cucumber, Luscombe Grapefruit tonic and Lixir Rhubarb and Ginger tonic.

Available from www.first4hampers.com for £99.00

Advent calendars will be available online from www.first4hampers.com  from mid August while Tipsy Trees will be available mid September.

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For more information, please contact Danielle Kaye (danielle@umpf.co.uk) or Pip Morrall (pip@umpf.co.uk) or call the team on 0800 4 10 20 10.  

For more information on First 4 Hampers, please visit www.first4hampers.com