Tired of hunting high and low for just the right seasonally decorative tin of priceless coffee excreted by an Asian cat? We offer you instead this short list of hot-ticket items for the coffee-lover, coffee-lifestyle-liver on your gift list. Peruse our choices and you'll be giving Santa a run for his money. »

About the author: Liz Clayton drinks, photographs and writes about coffee and tea all over the world, though she pretends to live in Brooklyn, New York. She is currently compiling photographs of the best coffee in the world to be published by Presspop in 2013.

Looking for more gifts for coffee lovers? Here are a few more ideas.