Updated: 02 May 2025

10 Best scotch whisky single malts of 2025

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Updated: 02 May 2025

#1

Best Choice

Lagavulin 16 Year Old Single Malt Scotch Whisky 700ml

9.9

Lagavulin

-25%

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Main highlights

Intense, peat rich, sweet and salty

Best enjoyed from a traditional whisky glass, neat or with a little still water

2015 Silver Outstanding Medal Winner - International Wine and Spirits Competition

-25%
#2

Best Value

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

9.6

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
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#3

CARDHU 12 Years Old Single Malt Scotch Whisky 700ml

9.4

Cardhu

-34%

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Main highlights

With clean, crisp oak and sweet malt

Hint of pear drops, sweet and malty

Cardhu 12 Year Old Single Malt Scotch Whisky flows like the conversation of excellent company. With notes of honey-nut and a lingering sweet smoke finish, our flavours lead into an attractive, drying aftertaste

-34%
#4

Dailuaine Flora and Fauna 16 Year Old Single Malt Whisky 700 ml

9.3

Dailuaine

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Main highlights

Full-bodied with a smooth, smoky finish

Dailuaine is Gaelic for "The Green Vale". This distillery established in 1852 lies in a hollow by the Carron Burn in Banffshire. This single malt scotch whisky has a full bodied fruity nose and a smoky finish. For more than a hundred years distillery suppliers were despatched by rail. The steam locomotive 'Dailuaine No.1' was in use from 1939-1967 and is preserved on the Strathspey Railway. This single malt was released as part of the "Flora and Fauna" series, a collection of single malts from the more obscure and unknown distilleries in Scotland.

A complicated single malt whisky, full and sweet, yet also citric-fresh, that can impress mightily. An unusual combination of freshness and richness, this 16-year-old single malt whisky has a sherried style with a sweetness and a nuttiness that you can sit and savour.
#5

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

9.2

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
#6

Singleton Dufftown Malt Master Collection Single Malt Scotch Whisky 700ml

9.1

Singleton

-18%

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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

-18%
#7

Monkey Shoulder Blended Malt Scotch Whisky, 70cl

9.0

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
#8

Laphroaig Select Cask Single Malt Scotch Whisky 700ml

8.9

Laphroaig

-17%

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Main highlights

The subtly of flavour makes select the perfect gateway to the Laphroaig family

Deep, complex and smoky yet surprises the palate with a gentle sweetness

Burning embers of peat in a crofter’s fireplace, hints of coconut and banana aromas

-17%
#9

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

8.8

Aerstone

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Main highlights

This process delivers a smooth whiskey with a hint of sea salt with a nose of delicate oak, malted biscuits and creamy vanilla

Single malt scotch whisky thats smooth & easy. Sip, savour and enjoy the taste with hints of almond, vanilla and tanine

Aerstone scotch whisky is carefully matured for over 10 years in warehouses perched on the intense coastline of the Ayrshire coast, of Scotland
#10

Talisker 10 Year Old Single Malt Scotch Whisky 700 ml

8.7

Talisker

-15%

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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

-15%