Specialist merchants · London · Est. 1998
Distillery bottlings you already know, priced as UK specialists list them this month. Honest tasting notes, next-day mainland delivery, and a library 16,400 bottles deep.
The island everyone asks for first
Iodine, lapsang and a long peat finish. The Distillers Company bottling that still sets the Islay standard — 70cl, 43%, on the shelf at £79.95.
Speyside · sherry oak
Toffee, orange peel and dried fruit from American and European oak seasoned in sherry. The 12 Year Old Double Cask, 70cl at 40%, listed at £73.25.
The shelves
Scotch, world whisky, rum, agave and the quiet corners of the drinks cupboard — curated the way a good merchant should.
Today’s highlights · Handpicked for you
Eight distillery bottlings on the shelf this morning — Lagavulin, Macallan, Springbank and the rest — at the prices UK specialists are listing now.
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★★★★★ 210 reviews
70cl / 43% · In stock
Iodine, lapsang tea, dark chocolate and a long peat-and-sherry finish. The island’s benchmark 16.
★★★★★ 186 reviews
70cl / 40% · In stock
Toffee, orange peel and dried fruit from sherry-seasoned American and European oak.
★★★★★ 164 reviews
70cl / 40% · In stock
Heather honey, orange zest, a thread of island peat. The everyday bottle from Kirkwall.
★★★★★ 248 reviews
50cl / 51.4% · In stock
Spice, oak, baked apple and chocolate. The stubby 50cl at cask-like 51.4%.
★★★★★ 97 reviews
70cl / 46% · In stock
Brine, malt, tropical fruit and light smoke. 2.5 times distilled, 46%, no chill filter.
★★★★★ 54 reviews
70cl / 43% · In stock
Tropical fruit, orange zest, coffee and molasses. Joy Spence’s 12-year blend, 43%.
★★★★★ 71 reviews
70cl / 42% · In stock
Roasted espadín, citrus pith and village smoke. Ron Cooper’s everyday mezcal, 42%.
★★★★★ 132 reviews
6 × 5cl / 40–46% · In stock
Glenfiddich 12, Macallan 12, Lagavulin 16, Balvenie 12 DoubleWood, Talisker 10 and Ardbeg 10 — 5cl each.
Shelf prices match current UK specialist listings (The Whisky Exchange and Master of Malt, September 2026).
The island
Three distillery bottlings that still define Islay on a British shelf: Lagavulin 16, Laphroaig 10 and Ardbeg 10. Peat, iodine and a finish that lasts into the next sip.
We buy them as the distilleries bottle them — 70cl, stated age, natural colour where the producer allows it — and sell them at the same numbers UK specialists are posting this month.
For someone who already has a favourite
Velvet cases, tasting cards, and bottles chosen for the person who claims they ‘don’t need anything’.
Wood makes the whisky
Sauternes, PX, Bordeaux and Burgundy casks — humble vessels where the spirit finds, or further shapes, its soul.
Every bottle
Written upstairs, after lunch, in the Bermondsey tasting room. If we would not pour it for a friend, it does not go on the site.
Try before you commit
Explore serious spirits without buying the whole bottle. Ideal for building a flight, or a very civilised stocking.
Order by 2pm for mainland dispatch. Click & collect from the Bermondsey cellar.
Natural colour. No chill filtration unless the distillery insisted.
Allocations for hotels, independents and the people who pour for a living.
We sell only to adults of legal drinking age in their country.
What people are saying
The Lagavulin 16 arrived next day, with a tasting card that actually tasted like the glass. This is how a merchant should write.
Helena P. · Edinburgh
Clicked and collected a Macallan 12 on my lunch break. They poured me a dram while they wrapped it. Dangerous.
James K. · Bermondsey cellar
Duties were clear at checkout, the Nikka From The Barrel was exactly as nosed. I will not shop the big chains first again.
Mei L. · Singapore
The journal
The same notebook we keep behind the counter — now in your inbox, once a fortnight, never a shout.
Allocations, sample drops, and the occasional very old dram. No daily noise.
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