It's a fun novelty to enjoy in the run-up to Christmas, but if you fancy yourself somewhat of a wine buff you'll probably be left a bit disappointed. Aesthetics: They rate each advent calendar on how visually appealing it would look displayed in your home and how easy it is to get at the gifts without running the look of the advent calendar.

You'll need 24 loo rolls, a box and 24 mini gifts for your homemade advent calendar - think wrapped individual chocolates, sweets, any skincare or other make up and perfume freebies lurking in drawers. While our testers enjoyed sampling the selection of New World wines from Chile, Moldova and California and more, they weren't wowed by the quality.Our testers were very impressed with the offering of products and brands in this year’s M&S beauty advent calendar. Half our panel said they’d happily gift it to a loved one. That's why we've voted it our best beauty advent calendar of 2023 of those we tested. Quality of products: Our testers taste chocolate, dab make-up, sip wine and build toys to rate the quality of what's inside each advent calendar in its entirety. Get super organised for 2023 with the perfect diary and calendar to plot out your busy schedule and count down the days to those exciting events.

There's no denying that it's incredibly expensive, but it contains a huge amount of chocolate and other gifts that'll go down a treat in the run-up to Christmas. That's why it gets our nod as the best chocolate advent calendar of 2023 of those we tested. We choose popular beauty, chocolate, children's and food and drink advent calendars available at UK retailers. We ask our testers to open all the doors of each calendar and score them on the following: As well as the stylish little wax-covered bottles inside this advent calendar, our testers were impressed with the spectacular variety of gins behind each of the 24 doors. Half our testers voted it as one of their favourite advent calendars to gift to a loved one. Variety of gifts: They look at the range of gifts included. The best advent calendars have different products every day and are exciting in the run-up to Christmas. The worst are boring with lots of repeated gifts. The box that houses all the wines is heavy and bulky, so you'll need plenty of space at home to store it too.As you'd expect there are lots of chocolate gifts inside Hotel Chocolat's The Grand Advent Calendar including a chocolate wreath, chocolate snowmen and champagne truffles. But you also get some genuine surprises, such as chocolate lip balm, cacao gin and some more we'll leave you to discover yourself. Each product is unique and you get a wide range of haircare, skincare, nailcare and make-up over 25 days.

Half our testers said this calendar was one of their favourites and said they would love to receive it as a gift. Don't have that many loo rolls hanging around? Fill 24 envelopes with 'gifts' and peg them to a piece of string you hang up. Tape the loo rolls into the box with the tube facing outwards. Add one 'gift' per tube. Make 24 'covers' from cardboard circles you number up and tape these over the tube ends.