Holiday Gifts for Homeowners Who Have Everything

Gifts For the Cook in the House

Create a Personalized Cookbook: For as low as $19.95 at TasteBook.com you can create a personalized cookbook. Select from among hundreds of recipes, add personal dedications, photos and even your own recipes to create a custom cookbook. It gets packaged up in an expandable binder with full color images and even includes free gift wrapping.

Shake the Perfect Martini: For the martini lover in the family, Waring makes an electric martini shaker in a 20 oz stainless steel container with settings for shake or stir.

Talking Food Thermometer: The ideal gift for the absent minded cook, just place the probe in your roast or turkey, and go relax. Make sure to keep the remote control handy and when your meat is cooked to perfection an alarm will go off, displaying the temperature and other details.

For Wine Lovers

Depending on your budget, these gifts are sure to please any wine aficionado.

Wine by the Row for $299: The Red Rooster Winery in Penticton has come up with the closest thing to owning your own vineyard with its "Adopt-a-Row Club." For $299 a year, you can rent your very own row of vines. This entitles you to 12 bottles of wine (6 red and 6 white), a 10% discount in the gift shop and a personalized sign posted on your row.

An Empty Oak Barrel for $975: Stoney Ridge Winery in Oregon is offering a Platinum Membership to their winery which includes 24 bottles of wine per year, custom wine labels, invites to member's only tastings and events, and an empty oak barrel with a personalized, engraved nameplate.

A Full Oak Barrel for $5,000-25,000: Grand Cru Estates in Oregon offers an exclusive membership to their winemaking club for $5,000. Members who want to join forces with winemakers Tony Rynders and Laurent Montalieu can produce their own pinot noir vintage for an additional $20,000 a barrel.

The WinePod: This is perfect for the wine geek with some extra cash to spare. For a mere $6000 you can purchase this personal winery system that comes complete with bottling kit, oak barrels and the grapes needed to make up to four cases of wine. It even includes educational wine making software to help you through the rough spots. In addition, the system manages fermentation temperature, grape sugar levels and updates the data to your PC. Your handy WineCoach software spits out detailed reports of your batch and allows you to input impressions of smell, taste and reminders of when to make additions.

Handy Gifts for Around the House

Towel Spa: For the ultimate in luxury, hop out of the bath or shower and dry off with a warmed towel. This towel warmer heats up your linen in minutes for a spa experience in your own home.

Wall Clock – Or Is It?: It looks like a wall clock, sounds and keeps time like any other clock, but, secretly opens to reveal a safe for storing valuables.

Luxury Pet House: Try and picture a time capsule-like container with computerized settings for temperature, humidity, radiation, carbon heating and air filtering. These are the features in the electronic pet house from Korean manufacturer, Autoelex. My dog is getting a new bone.

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