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Hampers

Whilst our hampers contain many famous names, we also take the trouble to search out smaller suppliers with particular expertise to create unique luxury hampers which you will find hard to find anywhere else. If you need advice choosing hampers or assistance with corporate gift hampers do not hesitate to contact us by phone, fax or email.

Christmas Hampers

Choose from our range of 14 Christmas hampers and wine hampers, each packed in attractive gift boxes or wicker baskets for delivery within the UK before Christmas. The Christmas hampers are filled with a selection of seasonal festive luxury Christmas foods and fine wines. The Christmas hampers and corporate gift hampers will all be delivered in time for the festive celebrations.

Corporate Gift Hampers

Delight your staff and key customers with our range of Corporate Gift Hampers. Our hampers include a selection of stilton cheese, smoked salmon, chocolates, traditional Christmas foods and fine wines. We also offer non perishable and non alcoholic luxury hampers as Corporate Gift Hampers. Our corporate gift hampers will certainly show your staff or customers exactly how much they are appreciated.

Christmas Food

Our luxury hampers contain a selection of specialist Christmas food and wines. The Christmas food in our gift hampers is not readily available elsewhere and combines a range of gourmet good, specialist wines, each packed in attractive gift boxes, wooden cartons or wicker baskets, ready to be delivered to within the UK before Christmas.

Wine Hampers

Our range of wine hampers are ideal for when a hamper with Christmas food in isn’t suitable. The wine hampers contain a selection of luxury wines, each packed in attractive boxes or cartons. We are also able to provide wine hampers with your own label on the bottles - making your gift even more unique.

Hay Hampers

At Hay Hampers we offer a range of over 100 hampers from our brochure, however if you are looking for that extra special hamper we are able to create bespoke hampers just for you - we can even put your own products or promotional material into them, making them perfect gifts for sending out to your customers.

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Harvest Time in Burgundy



We decided to take a short break in Burgundy. The 2009 brochure had gone out to corporate customers, the new web site was nearly ready for the Christmas season, our youngest son, Tom, starts university this month, Hay Hampers has been trading for 25 years and we celebrate our 35th wedding anniversary on 14th September. A perfect time for a short break in the vineyards of Burgundy.


We arrived on Saturday 5th September at Gilly les Citeaux to stay in the Hotel L’Oree des Vignes which is run by Caroline Ciamos and Agnes Billaut. It is on the opposite side of the roundabout from Clos Vougeot. A wonderful converted farmstead, which was a grange of the Cistercian Abbey at Citeaux. Christian Ciamos of Corton Andre at Aloxe Corton had very kindly booked us into a fabulous restaurant in Flagey-Echezeaux in the next village. Restaurant Simon is considered to be one of the best restaurants in the Cote d'Or. The foie gras and fillet de boeuf chantilly were outstanding with a bottle of Savigny les Beaune.


Sunday 6th September we had a wine tasting of 17 top Burgundian whites and reds in the cellar at Hotel L'Orees des Vignes with Christian Ciamos and selected wines to bring back for our new wine list. In the afternoon, we met up with our neighbours from Corby Glen, who are selling their house in the Chalonnais, at Citeaux Abbey. The two hour tour of this Cistercian Abbey showed us a simple way of living in tune with nature, in a life of silence, prayer and work of your hands. We had tasted the delicious mellow Citeaux cheese at Restaurant Simon, so purchased a round cheese from the Abbey shop.


On Monday, our neighbours, Ken & Maureen, took us on a tour of the countryside in the Chalonnais. They took us to the amazing community at Taize, which has over 5,000 young people staying in tents each week during the summer. This community was set up by Brother Roger during the Second World War to help refugees and for world unity, peace, forgiveness and reconciliation. We also visited the ruins at Cluny.


The autumn sunshine was glorious. So on Tuesday we set off to explore the main villages in Beaujolais, and to have a picnic in the vineyards watching the grape harvest being collected. We visited St Amour, Julienas, Morgan, Fleurie, Morgan, Moulin a Vent and Chenas. The harvest was in full flow at the Cooperative in Chenas with tractors rushing in from all directions over a 5 km radius with carts overloaded with black juicy grapes. The grape pickers are a fun loving crowd the world over and love to pose for photographs clutching bunches of newly picked grapes. It takes one and a half vines or just over 7 bunches of grapes to make one bottle of wine!


We headed north again on Wednesday to the Cote de Nuits to collect our wine from Corton Andre. We also visited the museum at Chateau Savigny les Beaune, which is full of vintage racing cars, motor bikes and aeroplanes. We then picked up some bread, ham and cheese at Leclerc in Beaune and headed up into the hills above Pommard for a picnic. We choose a quiet spot, with a magnificent view of the vineyards, in beautiful sunshine – a glorious peaceful moment. A tractor and cart full of grape pickers arrived, with another lot in a van and our quiet picnic soon becomes the scene of much merriment and amusement as we are swept up into the harvest. In the afternoon we visited Jacque Delannoy, a very long time friend and supplier, at Vincent Sauvestre near Meursault and we enjoyed a wonderful meal together in Beaune.


On Thursday 10th, we helped our neighbours, Ken and Maureen pack up their house and move their belongings back to the UK. They took us out for a memorable feast at a restaurant in Buxy in the Chalonnaise, which was seven courses with great wines.


On Friday and Saturday, we travelled back with our wine and our neighbour's belongings. We were stopped near Nuits St. Georges by customs searching for smuggled cigarettes. Thank goodness they accepted our documentation and did not make us off load everything! It is now back to the UK and the excitement of the Christmas season and a few days dieting before we consume any more good food and wine!