The Gift Conundrum 2013

Last minute gifts, what to do? There’s nothing really new here—the classics tend to win. When I ask friends like Lee Campbell what always brings her to her gift knees: “A tin of osetra and a bottle of no dosage.” As it turns out her latest favorite is recommended in this issue, Domaine Demarne-Frison Lalore ($92). Any of the others I mentioned in this issue work too. Great Champagne is always a divine gift.