The idea gift for your favourite oenophile. We can’t all own sunny acres in France, but we can have our very own vineyards!

The Backyard Vineyard Crate is a small but perfectly formed ready-to-plant collection of two red and two white grapevines which will flourish happily against a sunny wall, fence or trellis. The vines will arrive packed inside a handsome wooden gifting crate and cocooned in wood wool. In the summer, they will provide a generous harvest of delicious grapes that can be picked and eaten on the spot or turned into your own personal vintage.

The Backyard Vineyard Crate is part of a new collection of gifts from The Greedy Gardener, exclusively available from Holly and Co. Each gift is hand wrapped and packaged by The Greedy Gardener’s small team in South London.

You can order any time now as the plants are dormant during the winter months and as long as you keep the crate lovely and cool, well away from central heating then the gift can remain unopened for up to three weeks. A shed or garage is the ideal place to keep it.