The range
Single malt whisky — one distillery, malted barley only, no grain whisky blended in. Scotland is best represented, from Islay peat to Speyside sherry, but the category is no longer only Scottish: Japan, India, Tasmania and Sydney are all here.
Single malt does not mean single cask or cask strength, and an age statement is the minimum age in the bottle rather than the average. Each listing carries the distillery, region and ABV.
22bottles. Every one with a reason written against it.
Speyside · Scotland
We stock it because it is the other half of a conversation that starts with Glenfiddich. Two distilleries, the same region, and genuinely different answers to the same question.
700 mL40.0%22.1 std
$79.99
Isle of Skye · Scotland
We stock it as the entry point to the distillery for someone who is curious about maritime whisky but not yet sure they want the full weather.
700 mL45.8%25.3 std
$94.99
Rampur, Uttar Pradesh · India
We stock it because Indian single malt is the most interesting thing happening in whisky at the moment, and Rampur is one of the reasons why.
700 mL45.0%24.9 std
$109.99
Tasmania
We stock it because Australian single malt is now taken seriously internationally and Tasmania is its centre. Lark is the origin story, and a whisky range without it is missing the beginning.
700 mL42.0%23.2 std
$199.99
Speyside · Scotland
We stock it because it is what the 12 grows into, and the two side by side make the case for age statements better than any marketing does.
700 mL48.0%26.5 std
$184.99
Miyagikyo, Sendai · Japan
We stock it because Japanese single malt beyond Suntory is worth knowing, and Miyagikyo is the most immediately likeable place to start.
700 mL45.0%24.9 std
$129.99
Bangalore · India
We stock it because it was the bottle that forced people to stop treating Indian whisky as a novelty, and because it still tastes like nothing else in the cabinet.
700 mL50.0%27.6 std
$109.99
Islay · Scotland
We stock it beside the 10 because it answers a real question. Someone who admires what Laphroaig does but finds the 10 too uncompromising has somewhere to go, and it is the same distillery rather than a substitute.
700 mL40.0%22.1 std
$89.99
Speyside · Scotland
We stock it because it is where a great many people start, and starting somewhere reliable matters more than starting somewhere fashionable. If you are buying a first bottle of single malt, this one will not embarrass you.
700 mL40.0%22.1 std
$79.99
Speyside · Scotland
We stock it because it delivers more complexity than a ten year old Speyside usually manages, and because BenRiach are one of the distilleries doing genuinely interesting work without charging for the reputation.
700 mL43.0%23.7 std
$99.99
Sydney, New South Wales
We stock it because it is made an hour from where we deliver, and because the multi-malt approach produces something that tastes deliberately built rather than merely aged.
700 mL40.0%22.1 std
$126.99
Tasmania
We stock it because Australian whisky has a short history and Lark wrote most of it.
500 mL43.0%17.0 std
$199.00
Speyside · Scotland
Two more years than the 12, in the same double-cask arrangement, and the difference is in the weight rather than the flavour - more sherry, a longer finish, less of the youthful sharpness. We stock both because the step between them is easy to taste, and comparing them is a better education in what age does to whisky than any amount of reading.
700 mL40.0%22.1 std
$164.99
Speyside · Scotland
We stock it because it is the bottle we would hand to someone stepping past blends for the first time, and it does not punish the decision.
700 mL40.0%22.1 std
$118.99
Islay · Scotland
The most divisive bottle we sell, and deliberately so. Iodine, tar, seaweed and an antiseptic bite that people either fall for immediately or never make peace with. We stock the 10 because Laphroaig does not compromise to be liked, and a shop that only carried whisky everyone agrees on would be a duller shop. Try it before you commit to a bottle.
700 mL40.0%22.1 std
$119.99
Haryana · India
We stock it because Indian single malt has stopped being a curiosity, and this is the bottle that makes the argument without needing an explanation.
700 mL46.0%25.4 std
$109.99
Isle of Skye · Scotland
Storm carries no age statement, which lets Talisker use younger, more assertive casks. The result is ashier and more immediate than the 10, with less of the rounded middle. We stock both because they are not interchangeable. The 10 is the measured version of Skye; Storm is the same distillery with the weather up. Which one suits depends entirely on the evening.
700 mL45.8%25.3 std
$99.99
Isle of Skye · Scotland
Made on Skye rather than Islay, and the difference shows: the smoke is drier, and there is a pepper note on the finish that Talisker drinkers recognise instantly. We stock the 10 because it is the age statement in the range, and an age statement on a maritime malt earns its keep. It is peated whisky with the volume set at conversation rather than shouting.
700 mL45.8%25.3 std
$110.00
Islay · Scotland
We stock it because it is the bottle that settles arguments about what peat means. If someone wants to understand the style rather than sample around it, this is where we send them.
700 mL43.0%23.7 std
$159.99
Hakushu, Yamanashi · Japan
Hakushu is Suntory's forest distillery, and the 12 is the green one - cut grass, cucumber, a whisper of smoke that arrives late and leaves quickly. It is the malt people reach for when they want something lighter than a Speyside without giving up complexity. We keep it alongside the Yamazaki because the two together show how far one company's house style can stretch.
700 mL43.0%23.7 std
$309.99
Yamazaki, Osaka · Japan
We stock it because it is the clearest way to understand what Japanese single malt actually does differently, and because it rewards drinking slowly rather than analysing.
700 mL43.0%23.7 std
$299.00
Speyside · Scotland
We stock it because it is the most honest whisky in the Speyside section. Add water to taste - at this strength that is not a suggestion, it is part of the drink. Check the batch number; they are not the same.
700 mL61.2%33.8 std
$161.99
