Updated: 26 Jun 2025

10 Best scotch whisky single malts of 2025

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Updated: 26 Jun 2025

#1

Best Choice

The Balvenie DoubleWood 12 Year Old Single Malt Scotch Whisky, 70cl

9.7

The Balvenie

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Main highlights

Sweet fruit and Oloroso sherry notes, layered with honey and vanilla on the nose

Smooth and mellow with beautifully combined flavours with a Long and warming finish

Distinctive character from being matured in two different wood types, each stage lends different qualities to the resulting single malt whisky
#2

Best Value

Talisker 10 Year Old Single Malt Scotch Whisky 700 ml

9.6

Talisker

-13%

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Main highlights

Sweet notes of dried fruits, barley-malt tones and shades of smoke are noticeable

It is a full-bodied whiskey with a rich, rich, warm taste

A long, rich finish with peaty, peppery and brackish notes

-13%
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#3

The Glenlivet Founder's Reserve Single Malt Scotch Whisky 700 ml

9.5

The Glenlivet

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Main highlights

Smooth and fruity as the whisky

Made with the same crystal-clear mountain streams of Speyside

Created using time-honoured distillation methods
#4

Glenfiddich 12 Year Old Single Malt Scotch Whisky, 70cl

9.4

Glenfiddich

-25%

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Main highlights

Matured in fine Oloroso sherry and bourbon casks for 12 years, this special whisky is the perfect example of Glenfiddich's unique Speyside style. Glenfiddich 12 year old makes the perfect gift for any whisky drinker

Glenfiddich 12 year old single malt whisky has a sweet, fruity taste with notes of pear, butterscotch, cream and oak. Followed by a long, smooth, mellow finish

Awarded `Master' (highest honour) at the Global Spirits Masters Awards 2017 and Scotch Whisky Masters 2019 and the best-selling single malt Scotch whisky in the world

-25%
#5

Singleton Dufftown Malt Master Collection Single Malt Scotch Whisky 700ml

9.3

Singleton

-16%

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Main highlights

With a smooth texture and predominantly sweet taste

Hints of honey and vanilla coupled with fresh pear on a faint base of wood ash

Experience it neat to revel in the notes of unpolluted fruit and vanilla

-16%
#6

The Glenlivet Caribbean Reserve Single Malt Scotch Whisky 700mL Giftbox

9.2

The Glenlivet

-10%

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Main highlights

Rich caramel toffee notes are followed by mandarin orange, vanilla and honeydew melon

Oak barrel, selectively finished in barrels that previously held Caribbean Rum

Notes of pear and red apple meet a fabulous tropical twist of ripe bananas in syrup

-10%
#7

Aerstone Land Cask 10 Year Old Single Malt Scotch Whiskey, 70cl

9.1

Aerstone

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Main highlights

Sip, savour and enjoy the taste of this single malt with an initial rush of peat and wood smoke is followed by a gentle sweetness

Rich and smoky tasting whiskey with a lasting finish. Punctuated with vibrant, zesty citrus starting notes

Aerstone scotch whisky is carefully matured for over 10 years from the lowlands of the Ayrshire coast, of Scotland
#8

Glenglassaugh Revival, Single Malt Scotch Whiskey, 700 ml

8.8

Glenglassaugh

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Main highlights

Stunning Highland single malt with a coastal charm

Single malt scotch whiskey in copper colour

Matured in a balanced mix of ex-red wine and fresh bourbon casks
#9

Monkey Shoulder Blended Malt Scotch Whisky, 70cl

8.7

Monkey Shoulder

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Main highlights

SMALL BATCH PRODUCED – The whiskies are matured in first-fill ex-Bourbon casks and vatted together in small batches for up to six months before bottling at 40% Alcohol by Volume

MAKE IT MONKEY – Monkey Shoulder whisky offers light and delicate vanilla notes on the nose. Floral, malty, soft, and slightly honeyed, this blended scotch has a smooth and rounded taste with hints of malty sweetness, vanilla, barley sugar and marmalade

FLAVOURSOME WHISKY – Monkey Shoulder is the product of a closely guarded recipe: a smooth blend of Speyside single malts that produce a complex array of delicious flavours
#10

Ailsa Bay Sweet Smoke Single Malt Scotch Whisky, 70cl

8.6

Ailsa Bay

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Main highlights

Scientifically distilled at 022 parts “peat" and 019 parts “sweet", then micro matured to a precise balance of oaky sweetness and smoky notes

Ailsa Bay is an award winning new age Single Malt Scotch Whisky that pushes the boundaries of flavour

A unique, peated single malt scotch whisky from one of the world's most technologically advanced distilleries by William Grant & Sons. Unique seated, perfectly balanced, single malt scotch