Nancy2 wrote:

> On Nov 17, 1:26 pm, Goomba > wrote:
>> Has anyone ever used a mail order wine company to send gift wines to
>> friends or family for Christmas? Any recommendations on good
>> companies to deal with? Anything special I need to be aware of?
>>
>> I'm stumped as to what to send my step-mother for Christmas. If she
>> needed or wanted anything she'd just go get it. Christmas gifts are
>>
>
>
> "Harry and David" get kudos from me - my brother & wife send me a
> towering bunch of boxes every year. Other than that, I like to send
> gift boxes from our sorta local Amana Colonies, which are only 20
> miles away.


Yup, I'll be putting in my Amana order soon, when I was a kid we'd go there
to eat at one of the communal dining rooms (kinda like the Amish places
around Lancaster PA) and then go salivate at the beautiful furniture at the
Amana stores... then we'd visit the then - new Herbert Hoover Presidential
Library in Long Branch and meander back to Western Illanoy via the back
roads. A pleasant Sunday excursion...sending those Amana boxes to family
now brings back those lovely times.

Amana stuff is top - quality, also reasonably - priced and shipping is free
within the Midwest area and very reasonable further afield...Amanans are
Iowa folks of very fine character, as peeps go Iowans in general are the
"real deal":

http://www.amanameatshop.com/


--
Best
Greg