The AnyCheese Holiday Gift Guide

Gifts for Cheese Lovers

Our holiday picks for the cheese person in your life: boards that show up ready to eat, baked brie, wine, and the knives and books they'll use all year.

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Cheese Boards That Arrive Ready to Serve

Boarderie builds these by hand and ships them overnight for free, fully arranged on an acacia wood board the recipient keeps. Nobody has to be home: the insulated box keeps the board cold all day. You can order now and pick the delivery date, up to a year out.

Christmas Cheese & Charcuterie Board

Boarderie

Christmas Cheese & Charcuterie Board

From $139

The classic size has 19 cheeses, meats, dried fruits, nuts, chocolates and olives, plus rosemary crackers. Medium and large sizes feed bigger parties.

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Christmas Cheese Board (No Meat)

Boarderie

Christmas Cheese Board (No Meat)

From $139

The vegetarian version: 17 cheeses, dried fruits, nuts, chocolates and jam on the same acacia board. A safe pick when you don't know what they eat.

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Thanksgiving Cheese & FALLcuterie Board

Boarderie

Thanksgiving Cheese & FALLcuterie Board

From $139

An appetizer spread for the host: 18 cheeses, meats, fruits, nuts and chocolates. It keeps in the fridge for up to 5 days, so it can arrive early. Thanksgiving dates sell out.

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Holiday Bundle: Large Board + 4 Baked Bries

Boarderie

Holiday Bundle: Large Board + 4 Baked Bries

$299

Serves 12 to 15. A large board with 37 cheeses, meats and sweets, three boxes of crackers, and four ready-to-bake brie pastries in different flavors.

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Baked Brie

These ship frozen and wait in the freezer until party day. Bake from frozen for about 20 minutes.

Cranberry, Orange & Pecan Baked Brie

Boarderie

Cranberry, Orange & Pecan Baked Brie

$129

A 9 inch brie en croute with cranberries, orange, pecans and brown sugar. Serves 5 or more, and comes on a reusable acacia board with crackers.

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2-Cheese Baked Brie Board

Boarderie

2-Cheese Baked Brie Board

$129

Four small pastries, each pairing brie with a second cheese: truffle moliterno with fig, blueberry goat cheese with ginger, and two more. Serves 4 to 6.

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Wine Gifts

Wine Express ships to adults 21 and over, who show ID at delivery. It can't ship to Alabama, Alaska, Arkansas, Delaware, Hawaii, Kentucky, Michigan, Mississippi, North Dakota, South Dakota, Tennessee or Utah, so check the address before you order.

Rozes 20 Year Tawny Port

Wine Express

Rozes 20 Year Tawny Port

A 20 year tawny Port from Portugal. Pour it with Stilton or any salty blue cheese, or with an aged cheddar.

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Laurent-Perrier Cuvée Rosé Champagne, Gift Box

Wine Express

Laurent-Perrier Cuvée Rosé Champagne, Gift Box

A rosé Champagne made from Pinot Noir, in its own gift box. The bubbles cut through a buttery Brie or Camembert.

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Sparkling Wines 6 Bottle Gift Sampler

Wine Express

Sparkling Wines 6 Bottle Gift Sampler

Six bottles of sparkling wine in one shipment, enough to bring a bottle to every party between now and New Year's.

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Veuve Clicquot La Grande Dame 2018, Gift Pack

Wine Express

Veuve Clicquot La Grande Dame 2018, Gift Pack

Veuve Clicquot's top vintage Champagne in a designer gift pack. Serve it with aged Comté or Parmigiano-Reggiano.

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Dom Pérignon 2015 Vintage Champagne, Gift

Wine Express

Dom Pérignon 2015 Vintage Champagne, Gift

The splurge. A 2015 vintage Dom Pérignon in gift packaging, for the person who already has every cheese knife.

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For the Host

Gear for the person who hosts every holiday party. The fondue pot and the raclette grill turn the cheese into the main event.

Swissmar Lugano Cheese Fondue Set

Amazon

Swissmar Lugano Cheese Fondue Set

An enameled cast iron fondue pot with a wrought iron stand, burner and six forks. The 2 quart pot and six forks make it a fondue night for six.

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Swissmar Classic Raclette Grill

Amazon

Swissmar Classic Raclette Grill

A tabletop electric grill for 8. Everyone melts their own raclette in a little pan and scrapes it over potatoes, while meat and vegetables cook on the plate above.

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Staub Ceramic Brie Baker

Amazon

Staub Ceramic Brie Baker

A lidded 8 inch stoneware dish sized for a wheel of brie. It goes from the oven to the table, and it's dishwasher safe.

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Boska Copenhagen Cheese Knife Set

Amazon

Boska Copenhagen Cheese Knife Set

Three stainless steel knives, one each for soft, semi-hard and hard cheese. Dishwasher safe.

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hecef Acacia Cheese Board Set

Amazon

hecef Acacia Cheese Board Set

A large acacia wood serving board that comes with a set of stainless steel cheese knives.

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Twine Slate Cheese Board with Chalk

Amazon

Twine Slate Cheese Board with Chalk

A 16 by 8 inch slate board with soapstone chalk, so the host can write each cheese's name right next to it.

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Norpro Glass Cheese Dome

Amazon

Norpro Glass Cheese Dome

A glass dome on a 7.5 inch marble base. It keeps cheese covered while it comes up to room temperature.

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Cheese Books

For the friend who wants to know why a cheese tastes the way it does.

The Oxford Companion to Cheese

Amazon

The Oxford Companion to Cheese

The reference book on cheese: 855 entries on history, science and how cheese is made, edited by Catherine Donnelly. It won a James Beard award in 2017.

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Cheese: A Connoisseur's Guide to the World's Best

Amazon

Cheese: A Connoisseur's Guide to the World's Best

Max McCalman and David Gibbons profile about 200 cheeses, with when each is in season, how to store and serve it, and what wine to pour.

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Mastering Cheese

Amazon

Mastering Cheese

A course in 22 lessons from Max McCalman, with tasting plates to follow along and an index of more than 300 cheeses.

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Cheese Sex Death

Amazon

Cheese Sex Death

Erika Kubick's guide for the cheese obsessed: how to build a cheese plate, what to drink with it, and recipes like baked brie.

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Stocking Stuffers

Small things a cheese lover will actually use.

Formaticum Cheese Paper

Amazon

Formaticum Cheese Paper

Fifteen sheets of two-ply cheese paper with labels. It lets cheese breathe in the fridge, so it doesn't sweat and go off the way it does in plastic wrap.

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Boska Copenhagen Cheese Slicer

Amazon

Boska Copenhagen Cheese Slicer

An all-steel cheese plane for thin slices of aged and hard cheeses.

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Mike's Hot Honey

Amazon

Mike's Hot Honey

Honey infused with chili peppers, in a 12 oz squeeze bottle. Drizzle it over aged cheddar, blue cheese or pizza.

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Dalmatia Fig Spread

Amazon

Dalmatia Fig Spread

An 8.5 oz jar of Croatian fig spread. It goes with Manchego, blue cheese and anything else on a cheese board.

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34 Degrees Original Crisps

Amazon

34 Degrees Original Crisps

Six boxes of very thin, plain crispbread crackers that stay out of the way of the cheese.

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Last-Minute Gifts

Both of these arrive by email, so they work right up to the last day.

Boarderie Gift Card

Boarderie

Boarderie Gift Card

$139 to $299

They pick the board and the delivery date. Each amount matches a board size, from a small board for 2 or 3 up to a large board with baked brie for 15.

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Holiday Cheese & Charcuterie Board E-Gift

Boarderie

Holiday Cheese & Charcuterie Board E-Gift

From $139

The holiday board, sent as an email. The recipient redeems it for the delivery date that suits them.

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