12 Gift Ideas For The Whiskey Lover
Every list has one. The guy or gal who loves whiskey, drinks whiskey, and talks whiskey daily — about the latest ryes, bourbons, and Tennessee whiskeys they’ve tasted and perhaps over indulged on lately.
You could certainly gift this person a bottle of the good stuff (we’ve included two on this list) but something a bit more creative may be in order. Here are our 12 picks of the best whiskey gifts for the whiskey lover on your shopping list.
Tincup 14 Year Bourbon Whiskey
ADVENTURE BOURBON
Tincup whiskey is an exercise in American spirit and geography: Distilled in Indiana, named after the founders’ outdoor experiences in Tin Cup, Colorado, and paying homage to the miners who once explored the great American unknown.
With their newly released Fourteener Bourbon Whiskey, Tincup is adding to their national pride with their oldest aged whiskey yet. Inspired by Colorado’s legendary fourteener mountains—those measuring over 14,000 feet in elevation—it’s a remarkably smooth and subtly sweet spirit.
Price: $81+
Whiskey Peaks Whiskey Glasses
HIGH ALTITUDE LIBATION
Who needs a tumbler with the Matterhorn rising from the bottom when you can have peaks commemorating America’s National Park Service emerging from two fingers of your favorite whiskey? Just add your favorite bourbon and the aforementioned leather chair and you’ve got your entire evening planned out.
Price: $19+
Whiskey Cocktails Book
BARKEEPER’S PLAYBOOK
The Manhattan, Old Fashioned, Hot Toddy, Rob Roy — They’re all there. With over 100 whiskey cocktail recipes over 256 pages, consider this guide a visual playbook for all of the iconic whiskey, rye, and bourbon cocktails you and your guests will enjoy by the fire this season.
Price: $95
Knob Creek 18 Year Old Bourbon Whiskey
FULL-BODIED BOURBON
Knob Creek is one of our go-to brands when we want a full-flavored, bourbon to sip on. Their oldest expression, Knob Creek 18 Year Bourbon, is aged twice as long as their flagship bourbon and delivers pronounced notes of caramelized oak and a deep copper color that looks just as good in the bottle as it does in your favorite neat glass.
Price: $196+
Shinola Leather Wrapped Flask
JUST A NIP
Shinola’s Leather Wrapped Flask is like a cool rugged guy in a classy, well-tailored suit. It’s built with an authoritative-looking stainless steel, then dressed up in vegetable-tanned Italian leather, which is infused with rich oils to give it a supple hand feel. Additionally, this six-ouncer stows easily in a back pocket for a quick nip when the mood strikes. This flask proves that a spirits container can be tough and elegant, and should be.
Price: $150
Whiskey Peaks Half Dome Decanter
ON THE ROCKS
Just as Whiskey Peaks glasses feature raised topographic impressions of esteemed national parks, so too, does the Whiskey Peaks Mountain Decanter, providing a neat topographic mountain impression of Half Dome to liven up your home bar or office bar cart. Made from handblown glass that’s also lead-free, this handsome and outdoor-inspired decanter offers up 44oz. worth of space for your favorite whiskey.
Price: $65
Daneson Bourbon No.22 Toothpicks
DELICIOUS TASTING NOTES
Small objects crafted with intense, painstaking care always make for first-rate gifts. Take these toothpicks from Daneson for example. Each glass bottle contains 12 American-milled, northern white birch toothpicks infused with straight Kentucky bourbon. You get your choice of 4 bottles or 24. Get them for the person who appreciates the finer things in life.
Price: $47+
Corkcicle Whiskey Wedge
SLOWER MELTING
Don’t let your friends and family water down their whiskey too much—it ruins the flavor. Instead, get them a Whiskey Wedge: An eye-catching and functional way to create big blocks of ice that will melt slowly and let any whiskey’s flavors naturally express themselves.
Price: $25
Elevated Craft Cocktail Shaker
PROFESSIONAL QUALITY
For the man who only makes cocktails using the finest small-batch liquors and craft bitters, you’re going to love the upscale look and design of Elevated Craft’s cocktail shaker. The shaker is made using a tough-as-nails professional-grade stainless steel that will hold up to rust, impacts, drops, and spills, but the gunmetal black finish and sleek shape sets it instantly apart from every other shaker out there.
Price: $75
Flaviar Whiskey Subscription
WHISKEY, DELIVERED
What’s better than a bottle of the good stuff? Hand-selected bottles of the good stuff that arrive in the mail over the course of one beautiful year. Your recipient gets to pick the type of spirits they like and can choose whole bottles or tasting sets. They also get Flaviar membership perks like dibs on rare bottles and early access to limited releases. Clark, that’s the gift that keeps on giving the whole year.
Price: $190+
Aged & Ore Whiskey Tasting Flight
BLIND TASTINGS
Tasting flights have been the rage at high-end bars for the past decade or so—and now, Aged & Ore is aiming to bring that same tasting experience into your home, all in one convenient package.
Their Whiskey Tasting Flight Set comes with three main components: Four specially designed whiskey tasting glasses, a matching serving tray, and four silicone bottle tags. Those tags match up with an etching on the bottom of each whiskey glass, so you can set up blind tastings for your family and friends.
Price: $38
Levitating Whiskey Cup
DEFY GRAVITY
This handsome whiskey glass does indeed levitate, eliminating the worry of water rings on your antique mahogany coffee table. You simply place the metallic bottom of the cup over the base to initiate levitation, along with plenty of admiration from delighted onlookers. Fill the 12-ounce, shatter-proof plastic cup with your favorite beer or whiskey and start defying gravity.
Price: $279
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