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Evening Standard
Daisy Lester

The best supermarket whisky is 'beautiful to sip neat or mix in a summer highball', expert reveals

Becky has tasted hundreds of whiskies – but this Waitrose bottle impressed her - (Becky Paskin/The Standard)

The best whiskies combine expert distillation and maturation into fascinating depths of flavour. But as collectibility and scarcity drive up the prices of high-end bottles, many fans are turning to supermarkets for a dram.

A shift in the market has seen whisky lovers seek out affordability rather than prestige, whether it’s millennials mixing up an old-fashioned or Gen Z discovering whisky sours.

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