What Is Actually Inside Our Hampers
People open a hamper, like something in it, and go looking for more. Then they cannot find it, because a fair few of the names inside our boxes exist only inside our boxes.
This is the index. What each brand is, whether it is ours, and where to find it.
The ones that are ours
Four house labels, made for our hampers and not sold separately. That is a deliberate choice: a bottle that skips the distributor and the retail shelf can be a better bottle at the same hamper price.
Sage Hills. The red. A warm, fruit-forward Australian Shiraz, and the bottle in most of our red wine hampers.
Barrel & Vine. The broader wine label: a Pinot Grigio, a Chardonnay and a lighter Shiraz. What you will find in the white and mixed hampers.
Opulent. The tea. English breakfast, chai, green, and a lemon and black blend that turns up across the comfort hampers.
Vitale Wellness. The body care. Australian botanical body wash, hand wash, soap and a pillow spray, in the pamper and wellness range.
If you have searched for any of these and come up empty at a bottle shop or a supermarket, that is why.
Lunar Lane
Our sparkling. It appears in the celebration and housewarming hampers, and it does the job a hamper sparkling needs to do: dry enough to be taken seriously, approachable enough for a room where not everyone drinks it often.
The independents we pack
Most of what is in the box is not ours. These are the makers whose names come up most, and several of them are the reason a particular hamper works.
Salt & River. Crackers, crispbreads and soya crisps. The savoury base of nearly every grazing hamper we build, and the thing most often eaten first.
Basil + Barrow. Salted pretzels and nuts. The other half of the savoury side.
Little Darling Food Co. Fruit and nut mixes. The item people are most surprised to like.
Season's Harvest. Quince and fruit pastes, which is what you want next to a hard cheese.
Cacao Boutique. Chocolate coated nuts and raspberries, hot chocolate, and most of the chocolate that is not Belgian.
Chocolatier. Australian chocolate assortments, including the Pure Indulgence boxes.
Bondi Soap. Body bars and hand washes in the self-care hampers.
My Maison. Bath salts, glassware and homewares, including the stemless glasses in the luxury hampers.
Dreamfarm. The Knibble cheese knife that comes with several of the board hampers. An Australian design company, and the knife is genuinely good rather than a token inclusion.
The recognisable names
Where a hamper is built around a bottle people should recognise, we use one. Veuve Clicquot, Moët & Chandon, Chandon, Dom Pérignon, The Glenlivet, Johnnie Walker, Maker's Mark, Glenmorangie, Chateau Tanunda and St Hugo all appear across the premium range.
The logic is simple. For a gift to a client or for a milestone, half the work is done by a label the recipient already knows. For everything else, a house label gets you more in the box for the same money.
Frequently asked questions
Why some hampers have famous bottles and some do not
It is the clearest trade-off in the whole range, and worth understanding before you choose.
A recognised bottle buys recognition. Veuve Clicquot says something the moment the box opens, before anyone tastes anything. That matters for a client gift, a milestone, or any occasion where the gift is partly a signal.
A house label buys contents. The same spend puts a good bottle in the box alongside considerably more food, because you are not paying for the marketing behind the name.
Neither is better. They answer different questions. If the gift needs to impress at a glance, pay for the name. If it needs to be enjoyed over an evening, pay for the box.
Frequently asked questions
Can I buy any of your house brands separately? Not through the website. They exist to go into hampers.
Why does the same hamper sometimes have different contents? Ranges change between seasons, and occasionally a producer changes a product. The product page always lists what is currently in the box, so trust that over anything written elsewhere, including here.
Are the makers Australian? Most of them, yes. Some chocolate, champagne and whisky is imported for obvious reasons. See Australian gift hampers.
Can I request a specific product in a hamper? For a single gift, no. For a corporate order at volume, often yes. The corporate team can talk it through on 1300 795 802.
Where do you pack them? Geelong, by hand.