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1 Feb 2022
Looking for ideas to spoil your Valentine? We’ve rounded up a fantastic selection of heart-warming foodie gifts and delectable drinks. Choose from cake, cocktails, chocolates heart-shaped cheese and pasties, hampers, favourite tipples and more.
Occombe Farm Shop
Occombe Farm Shop is jam-packed with tempting ideas for the perfect date night-in; any night of the week! Say I love you with indulgent local foods, Devon produced bubbles or a beautiful handmade gift. Try something new, support local and cook up a taste of Devon feast this February!
There are exquisite Valentine hampers, handmade with love, to gift to your loved one. Filled with products sourced from across Devon. Indulgent fizz and chocolates. Decadent cheese selections complemented with chutneys and hand-crafted crackers.
There are gifts and cards. Beautiful candles and reed diffusers, artisan soaps, handmade ornaments, glassware and vases. Be inspired by the unusual and unique ranges from across our region’s makers and creators.
The Gift of Cake
The Gift of Cake’s Divine Red Velvet Cake is a taste of cake heaven and the perfect colour for a Valentine’s gift.
Stunning to look at, this cake has sensational flavours and is deliciously smooth. A velvety red sponge, flavoured with natural vanilla and a hint of cocoa. Filled and topped with a mouth-watering vanilla frosting made with cream cheese and finest Belgian white chocolate. A treat for the eyes and a delight for the taste buds.
All of their cakes are beautifully gift-wrapped to give that extra touch and create a delicious present that will be remembered.
From £29.95 (includes cake tin and gift wrapping)
Porsham Cakes
Porsham Cakes is offering their popular heart-shaped chocolate brownies for Valentine’s Day. Send one to a loved one for extra brownie points!
Get in touch to order: www.porsham.co.uk
Lyme Bay Winery
Send a bottle of Lyme Bay Winery’s Sparkling Rosé NV this Valentine’s Day. A sparkling Rosé made from Pinot Noir by the assemblage method, which involves blending a small portion of Pinot Noir red wine with Lyme Bay Classic Cuvée base wine.
£30.00 per bottle
Cooking for your love this Valentine’s Day? Serve a bottle of Lyme Bay Winery’s Pinot Noir Rosé 2019, which is a delightful Rosé made from 100% Pinot Noir grapes. Full bodied with great acidity, which makes it an ideal food wine. This wine shows good length and mouth-feel, with a refreshing acidity and is driven by redcurrant, cranberry, rhubarb, and strawberry flavours. Best served very lightly chilled.
£17.49 per bottle
Eversfield Organic
Treat your loved one (or yourself!) to a slice of organic this Valentine’s Day with Eversfield Organic. Their Valentine’s Day offering is now live on the website, featuring a brand-new Valentine’s Day Banquet Box. This special box features all the ingredients needed to make the perfect Valentine’s meal, including a wild scallops and mushroom starter, a butterflied sharing beef steak dinner with all the trimmings and a box of organic, luxury chocolates to finish. Plus, the box is complete with reusable recipe cards and a free bottle of organic prosecco. The Valentine’s Day Banquet Box is available for delivery nationwide from 8-15th of February.
£55.00
Eversfield Organic also have a range of special Valentine’s treats available online and in their Farm Shops in Tavistock and Totnes.
Salcombe Dairy
Salcombe Dairy has launched some very special Valentine’s treats including their Valentine’s Heart Gift Box (£14.95), choose from a strawberry or passionfruit handmade chocolate heart. Their Valentine’s Heart Hamper (£27.95) includes a milk chocolate passion fruit heart and a 5 bean-to-bar gift box with 5 delicious flavours.
Salcombe Dairy has also introduced their Luxury Valentine’s Hamper (£49.95), which comprises of 2 x five bar library gift boxes in their Pink & Blue Botanical designs. Two of their new adorable Chocolate hearts, Milk Chocolate with Passion Fruit and White Chocolate with Strawberry, are also included and all handmade with love in Salcombe. This indulgent hamper is a perfect gift for the chocolate lover in your life.
Chunk of Devon
Chunk love pies and pasties all year – but, it’s that time of year when love is really in the air! If you’re looking for that perfect Valentine’s Day gift, why not surprise your loved one with a fabulous heart-shaped pasty – made for sharing… so you can enjoy the pasty love too! Both meat and Vegan options available.
£30.00
Andrew King Chocolates
Andrew King Chocolates has created stunning bespoke Valentine’s chocolates.
Flavours in the ‘With Love‘ box include White Chocolate Ganache infused with Gotland Gin, Lingonberry & Yuzu and Milk Chocolate & Passion Fruit Ganache surrounding a Passion Fruit Pate de Fruit.
Flavours within the ‘Just Because…‘ box include Devon Sea Salted Caramel Ganache finished with Two Drifters Dark Rum and Milk Chocolate Flavoured with Devonshire Honey and Triple Distilled Whisky Ganache.
You can buy both Valentine’s day boxes for just £10.00, or individually for £5.50.
Devon Cove Cocktails
Share a little love this Valentine’s Day with Devon Cove Cocktail’s luxury Espresso Martini and Chocolate Gift Box. It includes an Espresso Martini Cocktail Kit (£36.50) and a bar of Rose Milk Salcombe Dairy Bean to Bar Chocolate. Each Gift Boxes includes a ribbon and gift tag, with your personal message. Cosmopolitan (£36.50) and Cove Royale Chocolate Gift Boxes (£34.90) are also available.
Sharpham Cheese
Send some love with a Sharpham Brie Heart… there are limited Brie Hearts available on their webshop and they’ve paired them in a special Valentine’s gift collection with a lovely 2020 Sharpham Pinot Rosé from Sharpham Wines, a box of Peter’s Yard Fig & Spelt Crackers and a jar of their own Caramelised Fig & Pinot Noir Chutney.
£25 (while Heart stocks last)
Luscombe Drinks
Toast Valentine’s Day in style with cocktails from Luscombe’s limited edition ‘Valentine’s Day Cocktail Edit’. Guaranteed to add sparkle on February 14th, Luscombe’s ‘Valentine’s Day Cocktail Edit’ features two original cocktails, ‘Devon Spritz’ and ‘Rolling Hills’, inspired by the love-filled day. Created exclusively for Luscombe by master mixologist Louis Xavier Lewis-Smith, the new cocktail box makes a special gift for cocktail loving loved ones. As you’d expect from an organic and sustainable brand like Luscombe, the presentation box is plastic free and fully recyclable. ‘Valentine’s Day Cocktail Edit’ is available from luscombe.co.uk, at £45.
Salcombe Brewery Co
Salcombe Brewery Co. has the perfect present for your beer-lover this Valentine’s Day with a choice of a Beer Club Subscription (starting from £75.00), a ‘Date in a Box’ (£19.99) or a limited edition barrel aged porter gift set (£19.99 for 750ml in a Gift Box), all available to order online from www.salcombebrewery.com for delivery to your sweetheart’s door.
Flapjackery
Send a box of delicious flapjacks, handmade in Devon by Flapjackery, for an unforgettable gift this Valentine’s Day that’s as romantic as it is delicious. This special box includes a huge piece of flapjack with those two most important words ‘Love You’ written on the top.
A giant slab of Millionaire Flapjack (equivalent to four individual pieces) is the centrepiece of this fabulous box that’s inscribed in white chocolate and surrounded by eight other pieces of Flapjackery’s most popular flavours including, Chocolate Fudge, Chocolate Orange Flapjack, Clotted Cream Fudge, Rocky Road, Golden Caramel, Praline and Granola. £48
Alternatively, choose a smaller box (£24) with two, rather than six, extra pieces of flapjack.
Aune Valley
Celebrate Valentine’s Day with Aune Valley’s special Valentine’s Wicker Hamper (£49.95), Afternoon Tea for Two with Prosecco (£22.50) and special offers on their award-winning steaks (from £10.50).
Pre-order now online.
Gaia Coffee
What could be a better gift for your loved one this Valentines’ day than making sure each day starts off to a great start? That is what you can do with Gaia Coffee.
Gaia Coffee recently launched its new house blend and a single-origin coffee from Myanmar. On their website, you can now buy freshly roasted, speciality coffee beans that have been roasted in Torbay, Devon.
You can order all of their coffees as whole beans or pre-ground to suit your needs, and you can also pair the coffee with a huge range of brewing equipment available.
