Top 10 Valentine’s Day Drinks
Valentine’s Day drinking comes in many forms. There’s the thoughtful gift. The bottle you fully intend to open together. The cocktail session that starts civilised and ends with music far too loud for a Tuesday. Fortunately, whatever your needs, our Valentine’s Gift Finder is stacked.
I’ve had a good rummage and pulled out ten bottles that genuinely deliver. Whiskies, yes. But also gin, rum, Cognac, Champagne, and Tequila. We also have Valentine’s Day Tasting Sets that you should check out. Because love, like drinking well, thrives on variety.
Top 10 Valentine’s Day Drinks
Roku Japanese Craft Gin
Bright citrus, soft florals, and an almost annoyingly perfect sense of balance. Built around yuzu, sakura, and green tea, it makes a flawless Martini and looks excellent doing it. A classy move.
Tobermory 12 Year Old
Bright, coastal, and effortlessly charming. This unpeated Mull malt brings orchard fruit, citrus peel, and gentle spice in all the right proportions. So fruity it almost counts as produce. A whisky that wins you over by being entirely itself.
Port Charlotte 10 Year Old
Heavily peated, beautifully disciplined. Smoke, sea spray, and sweet malt marching in step. Proof that the best Charlottes are not only found working magic on our social media platforms.
Hibiki Japanese Harmony
Delicate, layered, and beautifully composed. Subtle rather than shouty, and dangerously easy to share. Ideal if your Valentine says they do not really like whisky. This will change anyone’s tune.
Planteray Pineapple Stiggins’ Fancy
Lively, juicy, offbeat, here ripe pineapple sweetness meets a proper rum backbone. Playful but serious where it counts.
Rémy Martin VSOP Cognac Gift Box
Polished, indulgent, and confidently luxurious. A blend of eaux-de-vie from Grande and Petite Champagne delivering soft fruit, vanilla, and warm spice. The gift box does half the work before the cork even moves.
Perrier-Jouët Grand Brut Gift Pack with Two Flutes
Elegant and crowd-pleasing Champagne with Chardonnay lift and Pinot depth. The flutes are there because presentation matters. And drinking straight from the bottle is only romantic once.
Don Julio 1942 Tequila
Silky, indulgent, and fully aware of its own appeal. Don Julio 1942 Tequila has vanilla, caramel, roasted agave, and a texture smoother than the line you did not say the first time around. Pour generously and let the Tequila do the talking.
Jack Daniel’s Tennessee Whiskey Guitar Case Gift Pack
If your top 10 Valentine’s Day drinks round-up doesn’t include a guitar case gift pack, have you even done it right? Slightly ridiculous, undeniably fun, it’s like getting Limmy as a gift, but in a good way.
Appleton Estate 15 Year Old Black River Casks
A proper rum for people who take rum seriously. Long tropical ageing, pot and column still depth, polished oak, and warm spice. A grown-up finish to the evening.
