Whiskeys
I occasionally get emails asking what whiskey brands are available in China. To be honest, if you look hard enough you can find pretty much any bottle since plenty of them get carried in by hand: I have spotted everything from Monkey Shoulder (Scotland) to Penderyn (Wales) to Mackmyra (Sweden) to Knob Creek (U.S) to Wiser’s (Canada). You can also find whiskey on sites like Taobao. But even when it comes to brands that have a distribution deal in China, the number is still around one hundred.
The list below is a working one and I will fine-tune it and add brands to it as more info becomes available. Thanks to Paul Mathew for providing info. I am also working on lists of rums, vodkas, and other spirits available in China.
For more on whiskey, see this post by Shannon Roy re the five best whiskeys widely available in Beijing, my piece — Enough Single Malts to Make You See Double — from the newspaper Global Times, this post about the best whiskey deal in Beijing, and this writeup of my tour of a massive whiskey collection in Hong Kong, one ended with a tasting of some 1938 single malts.
| BOURBONS & BLENDS DISTRIBUTED IN CHINA | ||||
| Blended Whiskies | Bourbons/Ryes | Single Malts | ||
| Scottish | Ballantine’s | Blanton’s | Scottish | Aberfeldy |
| Bell’s | Booker’s | An Cnoc | ||
| Black & White | Bourbon Royal | Ardbeg | ||
| Chivas | Early Times | Arran | ||
| Cutty Sark | Elijah Craig | Auchentoshan | ||
| Dewar’s | Four Roses | Balblair | ||
| Dimple | Jack Daniel’s | Balvenie | ||
| Famous Grouse | Jim Beam | Benromach | ||
| Glen Turner | Kentucky Vintage | Bowmore | ||
| Grand Macnish | Maker’s Mark | Brora | ||
| Grant’s | Noah’s Mill | Caol Ila | ||
| J&B | Old Fitzgerald | Clynelish | ||
| Johnnie Walker | Pure Kentucky | Cragganmore | ||
| Label 5 | Rowan’s Creek | Dalmore | ||
| Lauder’s | Wild Turkey | Dalwhinnie | ||
| Old Parr | Willett | Glen Elgin | ||
| Prime Blue | Woodford Reserve | Glen Grant | ||
| Queen’s Seal | Glenfarclas | |||
| Royal Salute | Glenfiddich | |||
| Scottish Collie | Glenkinchie | |||
| Vat 69 | Glenlivet | |||
| White Horse | Glenmorangie | |||
| Windsor | Highland Park | |||
| Irish | Bushmill’s | Lagavulin | ||
| Jameson | Laphroaig | |||
| Red Breast | Longrow | |||
| Tullamore | Macallan | |||
| Japanese | All Malt Nikka | Oban | ||
| Black Nikka | Old Pulteney | |||
| Suntory Hibbiki | Port Ellen | |||
| Suntory Royal | Royal Lochnager | |||
| Suntory Old | Singleton | |||
| Suntory Kakubin | Speyburn | |||
| Super Nikka | Springbank | |||
| Canadian | Black Velvet | Talisker | ||
| Canadian Club | Japanese | Hakushu | ||
| Canadian Mist | Yamazaki | |||
| Canadian Royal | Yoichi | |||
| Crown Royal | ||||
| Canadian Mist | ||||
| Canadian Royal | ||||
| Crown Royal | ||||
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All you NEED to know is one word…ARDBEG.
When you drink Ardbeg, you can taste the salty, windswept cost of the Isle of Islay.
It’s #1 in my book