Vintages
Choose a stated vintage year to find bottles suitable for a birth-year or anniversary gift. We will add a year only where it is recorded as an explicit bottle fact, rather than guessing from a product title.
1998
5 in stock
1995
4 in stock
1999
4 in stock
1989
3 in stock
1997
3 in stock
2001
3 in stock
2004
3 in stock
1988
2 in stock
1994
2 in stock
2002
2 in stock
2006
2 in stock
2007
2 in stock
1981
1 in stock
1983
1 in stock
1991
1 in stock
1993
1 in stock
2005
1 in stock
2008
1 in stock
2009
1 in stock
2013
1 in stock
Questions
Which vintages have the highest-rated whisky?
Lagavulin Islay Jazz Festival 2013 1995, from 1995, is the highest-rated bottle with at least 100 member ratings: 91.5/100 from 201 ratings. It costs from £799.00 at 1 retailer.
What is vintage whisky?
Vintage whisky states the year the spirit was distilled or otherwise identified on the bottle. It is not the year the bottle was bought.
Can I buy whisky from my birth year?
Often, yes. Vintages appear mostly on single casks and independent bottlings, such as Gordon & MacPhail’s, which print both the distillation and bottling years. Check both: a 1990 vintage bottled in 2000 is a 10 year old whisky, while one bottled in 2020 is 30 years old.
Is a vintage the same as an age statement?
No. A vintage gives a calendar year; an age statement gives the minimum years in cask. A bottle can show both.