Holiday Gift Guide 2012 - For the Gay Girls in Your Life!

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The New Connoisseurs

Coffee is so old-school, the new gourmands are experimenting with tea. Enter the Artisan's Blending Kit, created by Ahmed Rahim, CEO and chief alchemist for Numi Organic Tea, who is known for his mastery of tea blending (e.g. Chocolate Pu-erh, Rooibos Chai, and Basil Mint Pu-erh). The kit comes with an assortment of organic teas, herbs, fruits, flowers, and spices plus a handmade glass teapot and a recipe book that'll have you experimenting with blends from your own imagination. $39.99

Better Than Cheese of the Month

A membership to the Scotch Malt Whisky Society opens the door to a whole new world of whiskey, where members are granted access to the largest and finest array of single-cask, single-malt offerings available to humankind. It also includes an exciting program of whiskey-tasting events across the U.S. and admission to the society's three fabulous Members' Rooms in London, Edinburgh, and Leith, Scotland; a keepsake membership kit; Unfiltered, the society's magazine; and approximately 90 single-cask offerings to choose from. Society whiskeys are available exclusively to members and are not sold in retail liquor stores. $229

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