Alcohol Free Baskets

There is a stricter reading, and we would rather address it here than have it discovered at the kitchen table. A chocolate may be flavoured with the essence of a spirit, as the Skelligs Six18 gin truffles in the Traditional Banquet and the Traditional Grand are, and a baked product may be made with a spirit that is cooked off in the making. In those cases the flavour is present and the alcohol is not. For Christmas 2026 we have reviewed the descriptions of every hamper in this alcohol-free collection to remove any reference to liqueur or brandy in the chocolates, and there is a very high probability that nothing in any of these Christmas hampers carries even a trace. The mince pies in the alcohol-free Christmas hampers are the standard Holmes and Ditty's pies, not the brandy-laced versions that appear elsewhere in our range. For the purest expression of the idea, choose a hamper with alcohol free in its name, such as the Alcohol Free Colossus Xmas Hamper or the Family Favourites (Alcohol Free).

Non-Alcoholic Christmas Hampers Designed From Scratch

The usual way to make an alcohol-free Christmas hamper is to take a wine hamper, lift out the bottles and drop in a carton of juice. The result is a hamper with a hole in it. Our non-alcoholic Christmas hampers are not made that way. The Alcohol Free Colossus is the clearest case: twenty-one full-sized products chosen for a teetotal recipient from the start, with Butlers Platinum chocolates, Lily O'Brien's Belgian discs, Lindt hot chocolate, Rhythm 108 pistachio sablés, Tregroes dark chocolate waffles, Kilbeggan cookies, Graham's ginger cookies, SD Bells leaf tea and Nemi English breakfast tea, Brownlees strawberry preserve and Olly's Farm honey, around an iced Christmas cake. Nothing in it is standing in for a bottle.

The Christmas Traditional Grand takes the same approach at wicker scale, thirty-one full-sized items in a 22 inch lidded hamper with no alcohol at all. The Family Favourites (Alcohol Free) does it for a household with children. The Snowy Christmas Morning Gift Basket, our best-selling Christmas gift basket in Ireland for several years, was designed sweet and alcohol-free from the beginning. That is why alcohol-free Christmas hampers appear at every price point on our site rather than being confined to the bottom of the range.

Food First | The Reason Half Our Christmas Hampers Carry No Wine

We did not set out to make alcohol-free Christmas hampers. We set out to make Christmas hampers where good food was the point, and it turned out that a great many of them had no need of a bottle. That is why the non-alcoholic Christmas hampers on this page are among the best value in the range: the money that would have gone into wine, and into the duty on wine, goes into food instead. A hamper without alcohol can carry more full-sized products for the same spend, and on this page it does.

The market has moved towards us. When we began, a hamper was described starting with the bottle. Since the early 2020s, and the wider shift towards drinking less, around half of Christmas hamper buyers in Ireland want no alcohol in the gift at all, and our alcohol-free Christmas hampers now look contemporary rather than unusual. The range has not changed to meet that. It was always built this way.

Drinks in an Alcohol-Free Christmas Hamper

A non-alcoholic Christmas hamper still needs something to drink, and the drinks are chosen on their own merit rather than as substitutes. The Christmas Mars Gift Basket, the Savoury Xmas Gift and the Sunny Xmas Gift each carry LongMeadow sparkling apple juice from County Armagh. The Christmas Conviviality Gift carries Luscombe organic rhubarb crush. Several alcohol-free Christmas hampers carry a Seville orange hot chocolate spoon, and the Christmas Tempter Gift Basket pairs Nemi ethical tea with SD Bells barista coffee bags from Belfast so that everything in the basket can be eaten with a cup of something.

At the larger end, the Alcohol Free Colossus and the Traditional Grand carry SD Bells leaf tea, Nemi teas and Secotto coffee crafted in County Laois. One honest note: the two largest non-alcoholic hampers on our site, the Alcohol Free Celestial Giant and the Alcohol Free Deli Celestial Giant on the over €300 page, carry alcohol-free wine and alcohol-free beer alongside Luscombe and LongMeadow drinks. Alcohol-free wine and beer are made to contain almost no alcohol, but not none. A recipient who avoids those products entirely should be sent one of the alcohol-free Christmas hampers on this page instead, which carry no such drinks.

Alcohol-Free Christmas Hampers That Travel Where Wine Cannot

This is where alcohol-free Christmas hampers stop being a preference and become a necessity. Switzerland, Norway, San Marino and Monaco are served by our express air service, but no alcohol may be sent to them. Destinations outside Europe, such as Australia, Canada, the United States, Hong Kong and Singapore, take no alcohol and no perishables, and are handled as corporate quotations. So a niece in Geneva or a son in Toronto can receive one of the non-alcoholic Christmas hampers on this page and cannot receive a wine hamper at any price.

For the rest-of-world destinations, choose an alcohol-free Christmas hamper that also carries no chilled foods, since perishables are excluded as well. The Alcohol Free Colossus, the Christmas Mars Gift Basket, the Christmas Reflections Gift and the Family Favourites (Alcohol Free) are all built without chilled products. Within Ireland, Northern Ireland, Great Britain and the EU there is no restriction, and the alcohol-free Christmas hampers travel on the same tracked services as everything else.

Alcohol-Free Christmas Hampers at Every Price in the Range

Because the non-alcoholic Christmas hampers were never an afterthought, they run through every band rather than sitting at the bottom of it. At the entry of the range, the Christmas Conviviality Gift, the Christmas Reflections Gift and the Snowy Christmas Morning are alcohol-free Christmas hampers in presentation cases and a white basket. A step up, the Christmas Tempter, the Christmas Mars, the Christmas Gateway and the Sunny Xmas Gift add cheese truckles, sparkling apple juice and coffee. In the middle band, the Christmas Traditional Feast, the Traditional Celebration, the Christmas Dynamic Decisions, the Perfect Xmas Gift and the Savoury Xmas Gift are all alcohol-free hampers, and the Family Favourites (Alcohol Free) and the Alcohol Free Colossus are the largest presentation-case hampers without a bottle. In wicker, the Traditional Banquet and the Christmas Traditional Grand carry all four traditional foods with no alcohol. Above them, on the over €300 page, the Grand Colossus with fifty-one full-sized products and the two Alcohol Free Celestial Giants are the largest non-alcoholic Christmas hampers we make.

That spread is the practical difference between alcohol-free hampers designed as such and alcohol-free hampers made by subtraction. There is a non-alcoholic Christmas hamper here for a colleague, a client, a family with children, a couple, a grandparent and a whole household, and the product page for each lists its contents and weights.

Sweet, Savoury and Traditional Non-Alcoholic Hampers

The alcohol-free collection is not one style of hamper. The Snowy Christmas Morning, the Christmas Tempter and the Christmas Mars are sweet-led baskets built around mince pies, cake and chocolate. The Savoury Xmas Gift, the Sunny Xmas Gift and the Perfect Xmas Gift are savoury-led, with 200g waxed cheese truckles from Bandon Vale, Lecale Harvest pâté, Crossogue chutney, Filligans cucumber relish and Fenner's biltong, and they leave out the pudding and cake for the recipient who has told you they would rather not have them. The Christmas Traditional Feast, the Traditional Celebration, the Traditional Banquet and the Festive Celebration are the traditional Christmas hampers with the four anchors, all alcohol free as standard. The Artisan Feast is the alcohol-free Christmas hamper for a family that hosts, with a cooked ham, smoked salmon, air-dried lamb and beef and three cheeses.

Every product in each hamper is listed with its weight on the product page, and every product is the full-sized version. An alcohol-free Christmas hamper should not look like it has had something removed, because nothing was.

Hand Packed in Ireland for Christmas 2026

Every non-alcoholic Christmas hamper on this page is packed by hand in Ireland, by the team that takes your order. We do not contract packing out at Christmas, and it is the reason we can tell you what is in the hamper and what it weighs. Dispatch is ours; the final mile belongs to our courier partners, tracked and signed for, with email updates to you. In December we run a weekly delivery schedule, and the Christmas delivery date you choose is the latest day that week the hamper will arrive.

Choosing Among the Alcohol-Free Christmas Hampers

If the recipient avoids all alcohol, including flavourings and alcohol-free wine, choose a hamper with alcohol free in its name or the Snowy Christmas Morning. If the recipient simply prefers food to wine, any non-alcoholic Christmas hamper here will do, and the choice is between sweet, savoury and traditional. If the destination is outside the EU, this page is the only page to choose from, and for destinations outside Europe choose a hamper without chilled foods. Stock permitting, the whole collection is available in Ireland from September.

Are there gin truffles in an alcohol-free hamper?

The Traditional Banquet and the Traditional Grand carry Skelligs Six18 gin truffles. The gin is a flavouring in the chocolate, and there is a very high probability that no alcohol is present, but the name is on the box, so if the recipient would object to the word rather than the substance, choose a hamper without them. The Alcohol Free Colossus, the Family Favourites (Alcohol Free), the Snowy Christmas Morning and the Christmas Mars carry no product with a spirit in its name.

I have family in Norway. Is there any Christmas hamper you can actually send them?

Yes, but only an alcohol-free one. Norway is served by our express air service and no alcohol may be sent there, so a wine hamper is not possible at any price. Any hamper on this page qualifies. Parcels to Norway may attract customs charges that we do not control, and the delivery page sets out the service and the countries in the same group, which include Switzerland.

Do the mince pies have brandy in them?

The mince pies in the hampers on this page are the standard Holmes Bakery and Ditty's Bakery pies, made without brandy. We do carry brandy-laced mince pies, but they appear in other hampers in the range and not in the alcohol-free collection. Ditty's pies are also made without preservatives, which is why we cannot pack the hampers that carry them until the final weeks before Christmas.

Is an alcohol-free hamper just a wine hamper with the bottles taken out?

No. The hampers on this page were designed without a bottle from the start, so nothing in them is standing in for one. The Alcohol Free Colossus carries twenty-one full-sized products chosen for a teetotal recipient; the Traditional Grand carries thirty-one. Where a wine hamper does have an alcohol-free twin, such as the Traditional Feast and its Duo, the food selection is identical and the bottles were an addition, not the base.

Is there anything in these hampers for someone in recovery who avoids even alcohol-free beer and wine?

Yes, and this is the page for them. The hampers here carry no alcohol-free wine or beer; their drinks are sparkling apple juice, Luscombe fruit crushes, hot chocolate, tea and coffee. The two largest non-alcoholic giants on the over €300 page do carry alcohol-free wine and beer, which are made to contain almost no alcohol but not none, so for a recipient in recovery choose from this page rather than from those two.

Which alcohol-free hamper is the safest choice for someone I do not know well?

The Snowy Christmas Morning Gift Basket has been our best-selling Christmas gift basket in Ireland for several years because it carries mince pies, iced cake, shortbread, cookies, chocolate discs and fruit jellies in a white basket, with nothing that divides opinion. For a traditional table, the Christmas Traditional Celebration carries all four traditional foods and no alcohol. Both suit a colleague, a client or a neighbour without any knowledge of their tastes.

Can I send an alcohol-free hamper to my daughter in Sydney?

Australia is a rest-of-world destination, which takes no alcohol and no perishables, and orders to it are handled as corporate quotations rather than through the website. Choose an alcohol-free hamper without chilled foods, such as the Alcohol Free Colossus, the Christmas Mars or the Family Favourites (Alcohol Free), and contact our corporate team with the address for a quotation. Customs charges may apply and are outside our control.