For beautifully packaged, high quality organic chocolate at a reasonable price this company is a must. You can order ribbon tied selections of their bars, gift boxes such as The Chocolate Gardener and Coffee Indulgence or use their bespoke service where you choose which of their products should go into one of their stylish gift boxes. They also offer ribbon decorated wedding favours and again you can choose what you want to include. Buy here for Easter, Christmas and any time you want a chocolate themed gift.

Provided you place your order before 2.30pm, The Wooden Wine Box Company will ensure that it arrives on the next working day. Take a look through their well photographed and easy to navigate website for wine and champagne gifts which, for a change, do not include teddies, chocolates and flowers but just high quality, hand picked wines and champagnes. All the gifts are packed into pine gift boxes and can be sent out with your personal message. Delivery is to the UK and business addresses in the EU.

Butlers specialises in high quality wine and champagne gifts and offers more reasonable prices than most, in that you can see the price of each individual bottle, add the gift packaging and then the handmade truffles. Personally I think this is better than putting everything together and hoping that you won't notice the price but obviously it'll take a few more clicks. There's a good choice of hampers as well and express delivery.

Based in Wiltshire this online retailer offers an excellent gift delivery service. They have a very good selection including gifts for babies, gourmet hampers, (think The French Hot Chocolate Pot gift set and chocolate truffles with champagne) pampering gift boxes and ideas for men plus lots more. If you need a gift in a hurry I would definitely have a look here as they offer all the right services – gift wrapping including your personal message and express delivery.

So you're not going to be surprised to find champagne here, I suspect. You may be surprised that on this website you'll find not 'just' champagne (could it ever be 'just?) but champagne gifts with chocolate truffles, picnic bags, teddies and sterling silver cufflinks plus wonderful large bottles such as the Jeraboam (3 litres), Methuselahs (6 litres) and Nebuchadnezzar (15 litres). That one's definitely mine - anyone want to share?

There are lots of places you can buy champagne online, so these days a retailer has to offer something a little bit different to catch your attention. Here at nextdaychampagne.co.uk you can order from their standard range of champagnes which they'll send out with your message and everything from a teddy bear to a Christmas pudding, choose from their Lanson vintage selection or, best of all, design your own personalised label. Prices are steep but if you're looking for a luxury gift; take a look round.

The next time you're considering sending flowers to someone as a thank-you gift have a look at this website and you may well be pursuaded to send something entirely different. The Classic Box from For Goodness Cake arrives brimming with dainty fairy cakes, prettily packaged in a high quality, pale blue box and tied with fuchsia ribbon. They're freshly baked so you need to eat them quickly, but having received one myself, recently, I can assure you that that won't be a problem. There are ideas for children and weddings plus seasonal suggestions as well.

The aim of Heavenly Hampers is to offer food and wine gifts that you won't find anywhere else. The collection isn't huge, however they've definitely found some interesting products to include such as red chilli jelly, aubergines stuffed with anchovies and onions marinated in balsamic vinegar. Combine these with their excellent presentation and speedy service and you may well find the answer to your next gift giving problem here.

If you thought (as I always have) that Lakeland was about gifts and gizmos for the kitchen and home and clever picnicware then think again. A selection of chocolates, Bay Tree Turkish Delight, Apricots in Moscato, Candied Fruits, olive oils, jalapeno spiced nuts and the famous Australian Celebration Cake are just some of the goodies they're offering at the moment. Couple this with Lakeland's emphasis on quality and service and you certainly won't go wrong when you place an order here. There are also a lot of well priced gift ideas as well.

On this website you'll find beautifully photographed hampers and baskets of fresh fruit, to which you can add chocolates, flowers and plants and a personalised card. This would be a perfect place to order something for someone you can't get to see over Easter rather than just sending a traditional chocolate egg. Everything is offered in different sizes from the reasonably priced to, quite frankly, gorgeously extravagant. Despatch is by overnight courier.

You may well have heard of Rick Stein – eaten at his restaurant in Padstowe if you’re very lucky or bought or cooked from one of his many excellent recipe books. Now on his online shop you can order the items in his cook shop such as cooking utensils and original tea towels; send one of his hampers as a gift, buy his Chilli Chutney, tapenade or home made Florentines, choose from his personal wine selection or buy Gift Vouchers. There’s a really good collection here and some great gift ideas for the cook, but of course only if he or she likes fish.

Give something fun and different the next time you want to say ‘thank-you’, ‘happy birthday’ or congratulations and send a gorgeous tin of wonderfully iced biscuits from Biscuiteers. There’s the Bootilicious Shoes tin, the Oodles of Poodles tin and the Creepy Crawlies tin, and the biscuits are all as you might imagine. Also buy from them biscuit cards as an alternative to paper ones and choose from Christmas trees, ‘Hot Pants’, Flowers, ‘Home Sweet Home’ and more.

This is chocolate brownie heaven, where you can buy a three tier cake stand piled high with brownies, handfinished boxes of bite sized brownies for wedding favours and party gifts and beautifully wrapped gift boxes of flavours such as dark chocolate and orange, chocolate and mint and chocolate and pecan. The packaging is so gorgeous and the brownies so delicious looking that you’ll find it difficult to buy just to give away. Ignore the temptation and buy some for yourself as well.

There are so many online retailers who offer you (frequently very good) selections of food and drink put together by totally anonymous people that I always find it a joy to discover a real name, someone who has taken the trouble to create their own range and isn’t afraid to announce themselves. Claire Macdonald is one, who offers her gifts of food and wine such as The Chocolate Pudding Collection, Savoury Sauces and Chocolate Fudge, all beautifully packaged in signature dark green gift boxes. Buy from her. She’ll deliver worldwide. Visit her hotel as well if you can.

Established in 1984, Virginia Hayward offers a beautifully presented traditional range of gifts & hampers. They offer gifts for all seasons and events and can fulfil large corporate orders as well as individual purchases. They have a wide choice of other food and wine related gifts and a range of romantic and pampering gifts. You can choose from a named or standard delivery and they'll deliver to BFPO addresses

This is an extremely tempting website, where you can order the highest quality olive oil and balsamic vinegar, British and French cheese, caviar, Foie Gras, black and white truffles and truffle oil, spices, mushrooms and champagne. Everything is beautifully photographed with lots of information about every product - where it comes from and what makes it special. The prices here are good, particularly when you consider the quality of what you're buying. They offer gift vouchers as well.

Beautifully packaged and hand tied with raffia, this is a wide selection of well photographed gifts for any of your friends who like to garden and eat as well. So you'll find sloe gin accompanying young sloe trees, a bottle of Macon with a white grape vine and champagne with terracotta pots planted with sage, thyme, oregano and rosemary. This really is an excellent website for gifts and something just that little bit different.

You may have been lucky enough to eat in his restaurant in London, or to receive some of wonderful regional Italian delicacies as a gift. Even if you haven't done either of the above, you can now buy from his own beautifully presented range online, including pasta, olive oil, antipasti and confectionery. Everything is packaged beautifully with lots of information about where the product orignated and what you can use it for. Buy for yourself or give it away. It's a delight, either way.

The Gift Gourmet is an easy to get round website which offers a broad and innovative range of affordable food gift sets, containing the highest quality ingredients and all presented within ‘gift ready’ packaging so that you don’t have to do anymore work. There's a wide range of prices, from expensive hampers at around £100 to suggestions at under £20. Express or standard delivery are available.

There's a good selection of food and wine gifts here, from the clever stacking spirit bottles (if you haven't already seen them then take a look) to more traditional ideas such as port and stilton, well priced food and drink gift boxes, wine and champagne selections and beautifully packaged hampers. Most gifts can be personalised, not just the card but the box as well, and they'll even produce a special wine or champagne bottle label for you.

This is a really attractive website, using traditional script and really good pictures to make you want to stay and browse. They offer a selection of hampers, from Decadence, Luxury and Indulgence to themed selections such as Afternoon Tea, Chocoholic, Spanish and Chilli Lover and for each one you not only see the filled hamper but also each individual ingredient, as well as the list of what's included. In the 'Other Goodies' section you'll find Booja Booja truffles (!), Catalan Mountain Honey and lots more.

As beautifully presented and expensive as you would expect, at the Fortnum and Mason online store you can order their gorgeously packaged teas, coffees, chocolates, hampers and deli products such as caviar and cheese, dip into their extensive wine celler and visit their ‘At Home’ department which is packed full of lovely gift ideas and home décor items. Then pay a visit to Fashion and Beauty to find their own brand toiletries plus other exclusive ranges and accessories for both men and women. If you live in and around London and you’re buying gifts, you can request delivery by horse drawn carriage!

For luxury hampers this is the place to be. The company specialises in making traditional willow picnic baskets and picnic accessories including picnic bags, rugs and furniture, and also have a chic, colourful 'Carnival' picnic range including a fun shocking pink polka dot basket.  They combine picnic baskets with gourmet food and wines creating luxury gift hampers. Free UK mainland delivery.

Winner of the Queen's award for Enterprise for International Trade in 2003 Clearwater Hampers can deliver your choice of Hamper to just about anywhere in the World. You can create your own from their range of wines and food goodies and give you lots of tips to help you create the perfect gift, depending on the recipient. Alternatively choose from their Classic Collection where you can spend between £30 and £300. It really is a very well designed website and you should certainly find something here.

This is a really, really bad website to visit if you're on a diet. The Collins Street Bakery is based in Texas and sells the most delicious, fruit and nut filled, luxury fruit cakes, pecan cakes (think Apple Cinnamon and Pineapple Pecan) you've ever tasted. Don't get too excited about the toffee, cookies and cheesecake here as those items will only ship to the US. The cakes, however, they'll ship to anywhere in the World so take care if you have a really sweet tooth.

When you're looking for a special gift you can just walk into your local wine merchant and buy your bottle of bubbly then and there. Or you could do something a bit different and send a bottle of Veuve Clicquot in it's very own ice bucket with your personalised card, or a boxed mini bottle of Laurent Perrier with a candle and bath essence. If you want to be really popular send a Methuselah of champagne in a wooden crate (the equivalent of eight bottles) and cross your fingers you'll be invited to share it!

Lewis and Cooper are a family run business offering a marvellous selection of hampers for all tastes and price levels. You can choose one of their ready selected hampers or pick the items that you want included. Some of the more unusual items include Chatka crab, Russian caviar and quails eggs alongside the finest york ham, handmade plum puddings and Yorkshire Moors honey on the comb. Just click on the type of occasion you're looking for a hamper for and then select from their list showing the price and a picture of each one. It couldn't be easier.

Isle of Skye Smokehouse is a small dedicated producer supplying traditionally smoked fish to some of the finest hotels in Scotland and now they're happy to sell to you directly online. If you didn't know it already, smoked Scottish wild salmon is completely different to smoked Scottish farmed salmon. Once you've tried wild salmon you'll probably never look back although it frequently costs twice as much but it would be certainly worth it for a special treat next Christmas. Delivery is temperature controlled and next working day in the UK.

Bath and body products by Chantecaille and Compagnie de Provence, specialities such as Fois Gras and terrines, oils and vinegars, sauces, chutneys, jams and chocolates and gorgeous scented candles. Expect speedy delivery and efficient service. This website would be perfect to use all the year round and particularly good for gifts so check it out at Christmas (although order well in advance) to find something just that little bit different.

Bayley and Sage are a top quality delicatessen based in Wimbledon. On their website you can't actually visit the deli, but you can buy one of their well put together gift selections, with names like Sweet Sensation (jelly beans, chocolate brownies, mini cakes and marshmallows etc) or Gentleman's Selection (wine, coffee, marmalade, nuts and Gentlemen's Relish). Everything is very clearly photographed and the prices are reasonable.