The following spirits are what I consider to be tip top examples of their category. Some are linked to write ups on here, others have not yet been formally reviewed but all have been enjoyed many times both neat and in cocktails. The links to the excellent chaps at Master of Malt are included simply to expedite getting a bottle of these luscious liquids in your mouth and thus you can sleep easy knowing that there’s no funny business going on; if I don’t absolutely love it, it doesn’t grace these pages.
My Top 3’s
The following spirits are what I consider to be tip top examples of their category. Some are linked to write ups on here, others have not yet been formally reviewed but all have been enjoyed many times both neat and in cocktails. The links to the excellent chaps at Master of Malt are included simply to expedite getting a bottle of these luscious liquids in your mouth and thus you can sleep easy knowing that there’s no funny business going on; if I don’t absolutely love it, it doesn’t grace these pages.
Top 3 Absinthe
Clandestine (Buy it here)
La Maison Fontaine (Buy it here)
Jade 1901 (Buy it here)
Top 3 ‘Classically Styled’ Dry Gins
No. 3 (Buy it here)
Sipsmith (Buy it here)
Tanqueray No. 10 (Buy it here)
Top 3 Navy Strength Gins
Professor Cornelius Ampleforth’s Navy Strength Bathtub Gin (Buy it here)
Hayman’s Royal Dock Gin (Buy it here)
FEW Standard Issue Gin (Buy it here)
Top 3 ‘Other’ Gins
Gin Mare (Buy it here from Master of Malt)
Hayman’s Old Tom (Buy it here from Master of Malt)
Hayman’s Sloe Gin (Buy it here from Master of Malt)
Top 3 Rums for Sipping
El Dorado 21yr (Buy it here)
Diplomatico Ambassador (Buy it here)
Plantation Barbados XO (Buy it here)
Top 3 White Rums
St Nicholas Abbey White Rum (Buy ithere)
El Dorado 3yr (Buy it here)
Plantation Three Stars White Rum (Buy it here)
Top 3 Dark Rums
Gosling’s Black Seal (Buy it here)
Myer’s Dark (Buy it here)
Skipper Rum (Buy it here)
Top 3 Bourbon for Mixing
77 Whisky
Angel’s Envy Bourbon
Maker’s 46 (Buy it here)
Top 3 Bourbon for Sipping
Blanton’s Gold edition (Buy it here)
Elijah Craig 12yr (Buy it here)
Elmer T Lee Single Barrel (Buy it here)
Top 3 Rye Whisky
FEW Rye Whiskey (Buy it here)
Rittenhouse Rye (Buy it here)
Sazerac Rye (Buy it here)
Top 3 Tequila
Arette Blanco (Buy it here)
Herradura Reposado (Buy it here)
Olmeca Altos Reposado (Buy it here)
Top 3 Bitters
Dr Adam Elmegirab Bitterss (Buy it here)
Dr Adam Elmegirab Bitterss (Buy it here)
London Cocktail Society Bitters #1 (Buy it here)
Top 3 Non-Flavoured Vodkas
Vestal Vodka (Buy it here)
Purity Vodka (Buy it here)
Finlandia Vodka (Buy it here)
Top 3 Flavoured Vodkas
Black Moth Truffle Vodka (Buy it here)
Chase Marmalade (Buy it here)
Sipsmith Damson Vodka (Buy it here)
Top 3 Mezcal
Sombra Mezcal (Buy it here)
Siete Misterios (Buy it here)
Ven a Mi Mezcal (Buy it here)
Top 3 Orange Liqueurs
Cointreau (Buy it here)
Grand Marnier (Buy it here)
Pierre Ferrand Dry Curacao
Top 3 Vermouth
Antica Formula (Buy it here)
Cocchi Americano
Punt E Mes (Buy it here)
Top 3 Things That Didn’t Fit In Anywhere Else!
Mozart Dry Chocolate Spirit (Buy it here)
Kamm and Sons Ginseng Spirit (Buy it here)
Smoke and Oakum’s Gunpowder Rum