Australian Gift Hampers: Sending Something From Here

There are two reasons people go looking for an Australian hamper. Either they are sending something to someone overseas and want it to taste of here, or they would rather their money stayed local. Both are good reasons and they point at slightly different gifts.

What "Australian" actually means on a hamper

Worth knowing, because the phrase gets used loosely.

Australian made means the product was substantially transformed here. The ingredients may not all be local.

Product of Australia is the stronger claim: essentially all ingredients and processing are Australian.

Packed in Australia means very little about where anything came from.

A hamper is a collection rather than a single product, so most contain a mix. We pack in Geelong, and the range leans heavily on Australian producers, but we would rather point you at the individual products than make a blanket claim that does not hold for every item in every box.

The things that actually taste Australian

If the point is to send somewhere the flavour of here, these are what do the work.

Macadamias. The one genuinely native commercial nut crop, and the one most people overseas have never had properly fresh. In-shell macadamias are a small event for someone who has only met them in a chocolate bar.

Barossa and Australian shiraz. The style that made Australian wine famous, and unmistakably from here.

Kangaroo Island olives and produce. Regional, specific, and it gives the gift a place rather than just a country.

Native and bush flavours. Wattleseed, macadamia shortbread, anything built on local botanicals.

Bundaberg rum. Queensland, and about as culturally specific as an Australian gift gets.

What to send

All in stock at the time of writing.

• Australian Gift Hamper. The most deliberately Australian box we do: St Hugo Barossa Shiraz, Kangaroo Island olives, in-shell macadamias, macadamia shortbread and Bundaberg rum liqueur truffles. If you are sending to someone overseas, start here.
• Chateau Tanunda Shiraz & Gourmet Wooden Crate. A Barossa shiraz with olives, macadamias, shortbread and cashew brittle in a wooden crate. The crate survives the trip and gets kept.
• Gourmet Cheeseboard Hamper. Olives, quince paste and crackers on a wooden board. A good choice when you want something usable rather than a novelty.
• Vitale Australian Botanicals House Essentials. Australian botanical body care, entirely food free. The one to send when customs or dietary needs make food complicated.

More in gourmet hampers.

Sending to someone overseas

Here is the part worth reading before you order, because it is where most international gifting comes unstuck.

We deliver Australia-wide, and that is the honest scope. If your recipient is overseas, the practical route is to send to an Australian address, or to talk to us first rather than assuming.

Food and agricultural products face real restrictions. Many countries prohibit or restrict incoming nuts, honey, meat, dairy and fresh produce. That is exactly the list a good Australian hamper is built from. New Zealand, the United States and the United Kingdom all apply rules here, and they change.

Alcohol is restricted almost everywhere, and often prohibited by the carrier regardless of the destination country's law.

So if the recipient is overseas, the reliable version of this gift is a non-food one, or an Australian hamper sent to family here who are travelling over. Check the destination country's current rules before committing to anything edible. We would rather say that plainly than have a box confiscated at a border.