OTHER SPIRITS AND DRINKS
Explore unusual and unique spirits at Master of Malt. From absinthe and aquavit to grappa, genever and pisco, this is where you’ll find rare bottles, limited releases and distinctive styles you won’t see everywhere.
These bottles don’t always fit neatly into a category, and that’s exactly the point. Here you’ll find the weird, the wonderful, and the quietly brilliant. Unique spirits, rare spirits, and fine spirits. Absinthe, aquavit, pisco, grappa, genever, schnapps... They are born from just as rich traditions as whisky or rum, shaped by compelling and characterful terroir, and perfected by people who couldn’t care less about trends.
Discover giftable picks like Armagnac older than you are. Browse Port and sherry for Christmas and beyond. Uncover fine spirits for adventurous palates and find out why Brazil is gaga for cachaça, or how Baijiu conquered China. Buy them all and more here in our Other Spirits and Drinks section, a reminder that variety is where the fun begins.
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A handpicked selection of pours we won’t stop talking about. Expect the characterful, the underrated, and the downright brilliant. Bottles that deserve a spotlight.
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Household names to hidden gems. Discover the producers keeping things interesting.
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Looking for a genuinely unique spirit? This is the place for you. We have a whole unusual gift section packed with selected bottles that surprise, delight, and defy expectation.
Brandy & Cognac Highlights
From long-aged sippers to fruity spirits to go in cocktails like the Sidecar, there's a brandy out there for all tastes and budgets.
Port & Sherry Highlights
Whether it's an after-dinner cheese board, a gift for a special occasion, or a component in your next cocktail creation, we've got a plethora of Port and sherry to choose from.
Wine & Champagne Highlights
Discover some of our top wine and Champagne, from weeknight sippers to celebration showstoppers.
Liqueur Highlights
From sweet decadence to bitter balance, find the perfect liqueur for sipping slowly or mixing in cocktails.
A-Z of Other Spirits
Absinthe is a green aniseed-flavoured alcoholic spirit, made with the shrub wormwood. The green fairy has a reputation, but there’s more to the it than the infamy. Click above to discover and browse Absinthe brands and drinks.
A rustic, full-bodied grape brandy from the Gascony region of south-west France, Armagnac is a cousin of Cognac that has lots of quality and value to offer. Click above to discover and browse Armagnac brands and drinks.
Arrack is spirit made and enjoyed in South and Southeast Asian countries like Sri Lanka, India, Indonesia, and the Philippines for centuries. Produced using fermented sugarcane or fruit, such as coconut, arrack is favoured for its unique taste and potency. Click above to discover and browse arrack brands and drinks.
Aquavit (or akvavit/aqua vitae) is a traditional Scandinavian spirit flavoured with various herbs and spices, typically caraway seeds and/or dill. Like a Scandi gin. Click above to discover and browse aquavit brands and drinks.
The biggest selling spirit in the world, baijiu (pronounced bye-joe and meaning ‘white spirits') is a category of traditional Chinese grain spirits most commonly distilled from sorghum, but can also be made from rice, wheat, corn and millet. Click above to discover and browse baijiu brands and drinks.
Brandy refers to spirits typically distilled from wine aged in oak barrels, but there’s a wide world of diversity and history in this category. Click above to learn more and browse Brandy brands and drinks.
The Brazilain spirit, cachaça is essentially a form of rum distilled from fermented sugar cane juice (like rhum agricole) that is classically enjoyed in a Caipirinha cocktail. Click above to discover and browse cachaça brands and drinks.
One of the great French brandies alongside Cognac and Armagnac, but made from apples (and/or pears) instead of grapes, Calvados is a seriously underrated spirit. Click above to discover and browse Calvados brands and drinks.
From the French for "water of life", eaux de vie is a type of fruit brandy or schnapps distilled from various fruits and bottled unaged to be enjoyed as an aperitif, digestif, or in cocktails. Click above to discover and browse eaux-de-vie brands and drinks.
Brandy is typically made from grapes, but it can be distilled from all kinds of fruit like apples, apricots, berries, cherries, plums and more. Some fruit brandies are just alcohol flavoured with fruit, like most apricot and cherry brandy. Click above to discover and browse fruit brandy brands and drinks.
Grappa is a strong, typically clear, and distinctive style of Italian brandy. It’s made from pomace (or in French, ‘marc’), the skins, seeds, and stems of grapes left over from winemaking. Click above to discover and browse grappa brands and drinks.
The range of the world’s liqueurs is vast and all-encompassing, and ranges from complex, crafted liqueurs which are excellent neat or over ice, to liqueurs intended as cocktail mixers, and nearly every plant, fruit, spice, herb, flower and spirit is used in their production. Click above to discover and browse liqueur brands and drinks.
Often called the smoky cousin of Tequila, mezcal can be produced from many different types of agave (not just blue weber, as is the case with Tequila) which is often cooked in underground pit ovens, imparting its signature smoky profile. Click above to discover and browse mezcal brands and drinks.
Originating from the wine regions of Chile and Peru, pisco is a brandy made by distilling fermented grape juice into a high-proof spirit. With a soft, slightly sweet taste, Pisco serves as the foundation for the famous Pisco Sour cocktail. Click above to discover and browse pisco brands and drinks.
The perfect thing for enjoy a bar-quality cocktail at home, without having to bother getting all the bottles together. From an Old Fashioned to a Martinez, these are bottles to have at your disposal for when you want something delicious without the hassle. Click above to discover and browse pre-bottled cocktail brands and drinks.
A broad term that covers a variety of fruit-flavoured spirits, schnapps is particularly popular in German-speaking countries. The term in these regions denotes a strong, often clear, distilled spirit, quite different from the sweet, fruit-flavoured liqueurs elsewhere. Click above to discover and browse schnapps brands and drinks.
Shochu is a Japanese spirit usually distilled from barley, rice or sweet potatoes, though it may be produced from anything including sugar and chestnuts! Click above to discover and browse shochu brands and drinks.
Sotol is a Mexican spirit distilled from the dasylirion wheeleri (a flowering shrub known as the 'desert spoon') with aged and unaged editions showing a whole range of flavour. Click above to discover and browse sotol brands and drinks.
Vodka is well-loved for its versatility and, in more recent years, its variation of flavour. Premium and small-batch options—not to mention flavoured vodka—is really burgeoning on the drinks scene. Click above to discover and browse vodka brands and drinks.
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Spirits by country
Where's your next stop? Dip into a wealth of spirits and drinks from top producers across the globe.
Other spirits and drinks on the blog
Pour something intriguing and head over to the blog, where we uncover the stories behind these offbeat bottles. From the people reviving forgotten traditions to the mixologists finding new uses for old favourites.
