Best-Selling Gift Sets for 2009

Here's the final top-ten best seller list in specific product categories for 2009. If you're looking for best-selling food gifts at a bargain price, you can't go wrong with any of the following themed gift sets and gift boxes from the Carolina Sauce Company:

1. As usual, our best-selling gift set for 2009 was the ever-popular Mild version of our NC Barbecue Sauce Gift Set, featuring 6 full-size bottles of North Carolina barbeque sauces and grilling sauces representing the different regional styles found in NC, including our own authentic vinegar-based Eastern NC Barbecue Sauce. This value-priced gift set comes with FREE recipes, including instructions for making genuine Carolina pulled pork BBQ!

2. In second place was the Hot version of our NC Barbecue Sauce Gift Set, featuring 6 full-size bottles of hot & spicy North Carolina BBQ sauces and grilling sauces representing the different regional barbeque styles found in NC. This gift set includes own authentic vinegar-based Eastern NC Hot Barbecue Sauce, and comes with FREE recipes, including instructions for making genuine Carolina pulled pork BBQ!

3. Moving up to third place last year was the "customizable" George's BBQ Sauce Gift Box from North Carolina -- you choose which flavors of George's BBQ Sauce to include in the gift box, and we include lots of FREE recipes!

4. Packed in a rustic wooden crate and sporting the classic chile pepper colors of red and green, our Pepper Dog Salsa Sampler Gift Box finished 4th for 2009, and comes with a FREE recipe for mouthwatering Southwestern style chili!

5. A favorite for cookouts, tailgating, and parties, our Mustard Lover's Gift Set moved up several spots to 5th place last year, and features five full-size jars of some of our best-selling flavor-packed mustards

6. The crazy-hot Dave's Insanity Sauce Gift Set was our 6th most popular gift set for 2009, and comes with full-size bottles of the original Dave's Insanity Sauce, Dave's Temporary Insanity Sauce, Dave's Total Insanity Sauce, and Dave's Ultimate Insanity Sauce

7. Featuring 4 delicious Caribbean sauces in a lovely box with recipes, the Tortuga Savory Caribbean Sauces Gift Box was a new addition last year at the Carolina Sauce Company online store and ended the year quite impressively in 7th place on our list of best-selling gift sets

8. In eighth place last year was our Hot Wings Gift Set, with 4 bottles of our most popular wing sauces ranging from traditional Buffalo style to gourmet and exotic, plus a jar of the quintessential hot wings dipping sauce, Anchor Bar Bleu Cheese Sauce from the birthplace of Buffalo wings, the famous Anchor Bar in Buffalo NY

9. A favorite among serious chileheads took ninth place honors: Dave's Insanity Deluxe Gift Set, which includes the 4 different types of Insanity Sauce in the regular Insanity Sauce Gift Set PLUS Insanity Popcorn, Insanity Salsa and Insanity Mustard

10. Rounding out our list of best-selling gift sets and gift boxes for 2009 was the Mild version of our Bone Suckin' Sauce Gift Set, with 2 jars of Bone Suckin Sauce (Original and Thicker style), a bottle each of the savory Bone Suckin' Yaki marinade and original Bone Suckin' Seasoning & Rub, and a jar of the mild version of Bone Suckin' Salsa, all at a discount and with FREE recipes!

Zestfully yours,
Gloria