These 6 whiskies make great Father’s Day gifts

Is your dad notoriously hard to buy for? Perhaps golf gear just isn’t his thing. Or maybe you’re facing a familiar conundrum: finding a great gift for the man who already has everything.

We understand. If this Father’s Day has you searching high and low for the perfect gift, there’s one item you can select that is basically guaranteed to please: a bottle of whiskey.

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Whether Dad likes to sip it neat or create a world-class Old Fashioned, the spirits featured below are more than up for the task. And if his tastes runs toward bourbon, Scotch or Rye whiskey, you’ll find a worthy representative below.

The best part? Bottles are made for sharing. And what better way to spend Father’s Day than sipping a drink with Dad while watching the U.S. Open on TV? Click on the links below to shop for the perfect bottle now.

Blade and Bow Kentucky Straight Bourbon

Blade and Bow’s uses the Solera method to blend bourbons of various ages. The result is a bourbon with multidimensional character, perfect for sipping neat, or using a base spirit for a refreshing cocktail. Check out this innovative recipe from Wyndham Clark and social media star Chance Cozby.

Blade & Bow Kentucky Straight Bourbon

Tiered fractional blending allows for a vast range of ages to come together, creating a complex yet approachable liquid.

$50 from Blade & Bow $50 from Total Wine

Dewar’s Double Double 21 Yr Stone Toasted Scotch

The latest double-double iteration from Dewar’s made its debut earlier thus year: a 21-year-old Stone Toasted Scotch whisky, elevated with a unique finish in magma-stone-toasted French oak casks. Dewar’s is the first whisky brand in the world to employ the process, which is more prevalent in the high-end wine industry.

Dewar’s Double Double 21 Yr Stone Toasted Scotch

Dewar’s pioneered a new premium frontier within whisky with its Limited Edition Double Double 21 yr matured in stone-toasted French cask.

$149 from Total Wine $149 from Reserve Bar

Bushmills Black Bush

This whisky has rich, fruity notes, thanks to an aging in Oloroso sherry casks. It also contains a high proportion of single malt. The whisky is described as having a deep and intense character balanced by a soft-on-the-palate smoothness, with a lingering sweetness on the finish.

Bushmills Black Bush

Black Bush combines a high amount of single malt whiskey matured in former Oloroso sherry casks with a sweet, batch-distilled grain whiskey.

$42.99 from Total Wine

Loch Lomond Open Course Collection Royal Liverpool

As an Open Championship partner since 2018, Loch Lomond has been releasing special-edition bottles to celebrate each Open over the last few years. But this one, from 2022, is a particularly cool gift, because it’s one of only 4,500 bottles available worldwide. Tasting notes include soft honey, pineapple, mango and toasted oak. 

Loch Lomond Open Course Collection Royal Liverpool

This certified organic 22 year old whisky was distilled in the year 2000 at Loch Lomond.

$299 from Hard to find whiskies

Elijah Craig Small Batch Bourbon

Charred oak barrels gives Elijah Craig’s signature Small Batch its distinctive warm spice and subtle smoke flavor. Tasting notes include vanilla bean, sweet fruit, and fresh mint.

Elijah Craig Small Batch Bourbon

A favorite of Bourbon connoisseurs and casual whiskey fans alike.

$26.49 from Total Wine

WhistlePig PiggyBack 100% Rye Whiskey

This bold-flavor Rye whiskey is described as “a bartender’s dream” with an “optimal match in the strength-sweet-bitter cocktail triangle.” Tasting notes include spice, with cocoa, cardamom and cured leather flavors, and baking spices, vanilla and hints of citrus on the finish.

WhistlePig PiggyBack 100% Rye Whiskey

Long aging and countless barrel experiments that have led to the first perfected 100% Rye.

$49.99 from whistlepig $49.99 from Total Wine