The Anti-Hamper

amie Amie makes wine for sharing with people you like. The name means “friend” in French, which feels about right for a bottle sent to celebrate something.

Perello Perelló started with an olive stall in Barcelona’s Boqueria Market in 1964. They still know how to make an olive worth putting out when people come over.

Nalo Nalo was started by Divya, a pharmacist who couldn't find a snack that was good for her and actually tasty. So she started roasting her own in her London kitchen, drawing on her Indian heritage and fiddling with every recipe for months before it's allowed out. The motto is 'raising the bar snack', and a fair few top hotels and members' clubs seem to agree.

UP-UP UP-UP makes chocolate using cacao from the El Rosario farm in Colombia. The bars bring a good maker story and, more to the point, chocolate you’d be pleased to find in a gift box.

Serious Pig Serious Pig started with a simple thought: pub snacks deserved to be better. Now they make the salty, crunchy things you put out with a drink and somehow finish before anyone else arrives.

The Drinks Bakery The Drinks Bakery makes savoury biscuits designed to go with a drink. Baked in the Scottish Highlands, they’re the sort of thing you put out with a glass and watch disappear.

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