Best Scotch of the Month Clubs

Explore new spirits by receiving 45-milliliter vials of premium Scotch. If you like it, Flaviar offers full-sized bottles at a discounted price.

Want to try before you buy? Flaviar offers members just that, by allowing them to sample exclusive and rare bottlings in small measurements. Use the samples to expand your palate, or taste-test through them to find yourself the perfect bottle. Outside of samples, Flaviar has a fully stocked online shop where you can purchase bottles at reduced prices. 

Memberships range from a month-to-month model, where you get one product per month, to yearly plans that get you four or eight products per year. Choose from either tasting boxes or full-sized bottles of your favorite sips. Once you’re in the club, you get first dibs on exclusive bottles and interactive tasting videos for beginners and Scotch experts alike.

• One product: $60 per month
• Two products: $110 every three months
• Eight products: $350 per year

Mash&Grape collects some of the most exclusive and exciting bottles of Scotch in the world and delivers a selection to your door every month. Outside of monthly deliveries, shop through a well-stocked storefront of grail bottles and everyday sips.

Spirits nerds love Mash&Grape’s Scotch club, as the service curates a bar-none selection of single malt Scotch whiskies hand-selected by the experts. Each month, a full-sized bottle shows up to your door along with tasting notes and the story behind the spirit. 

Mash&Grape’s online shop is also stocked with full bottles, ranging from affordable every-night pours to more unicorn offerings. Examples include Nick Offerman’s 11-year-old collaboration with Lagavulin, 30-year-old Highland Park, and a range of different cask finishes from Glen Moray.

• Scotch Club: $79 per month
• Whiskey and Bourbon Clubs: $69 per month

PourMore’s club focuses on different tiers of Scotch curated by bona fide spirits buffs. Pick your price point, and a new bottle will arrive every month. 

PourMore’s bread and butter started as a whiskey club, with the founders curating their favorite bottles and sharing them with their community every month. In the last few years, they added tequila, mezcal, Scotch, bourbon, and more hyper-niche spirits to their oeuvre, making sure all keep their small-production, high-quality mentality.

The Scotch club focuses on exploring the Scottish isles, from single-malt Highland whisky to smoky, peaty Scotch from Islay. If you’re just dabbling in Scotch, the Intro level ($55) offers a new entry-level bottle to sip on, while the Explorer ($89) brings you pricier bottles. If you’re willing to shell out further, the Enthusiast ($149) brings top-shelf bottles of Scotland’s finest to your door.

• Intro: $55 per shipment
• Explorer: $89 per shipment
• Enthusiast: $149 per shipment

Along with every monthly subscription of select bottles, Taster’s Club focuses on educating alongside drinking, with tasting notes and producer deep dives included in every bottle. 

Ever wondered just how your favorite spirits are made? That’s where Taster’s Club comes in. Their focus is keenly on education, so along with bottles (great ones, at that), each shipment includes Digital 101s with tasting notes and info on the bottle. Bottles trot through Scotland, from aged expressions of Oban’s highland malt to Ardbeg and Laphroaig’s peaty Islay bottles to more oddball bottles from Big Peat. 

If you’ve got your fill of Scotch, choose Taster’s Club’s “Stock the Bar” selection—it’ll send a different type of spirit each month. Frequency is flexible to your needs: pick three, six, or 12-month prepaid memberships for any club.

• Scotch Subscription: $79.99 per month
• Scotch PRO Subscription: $184.99 per month

Many of the other clubs on this list also specialize in a range of other spirits, from tequila to bourbon to rye. But, as the name suggests, the Scotch Malt Whisky Society (SMWS) zeroes in on all things Scotch, and they’re very good at it.

For serious Scotch fans, the Scotch Malt Whisky Society gathers some of the best and most elusive bottles from some of the most fervent Scotch brands. Members buy into an annual membership that allows for discounted prices on bottles and access to the SMWS member benefits. For an additional fee, buy into a bottle of the month club—the club often bottles its own exclusive single malts and partners with whisky brands for rare, unique offerings unavailable anywhere else.

Outside of physical bottles, members have the opportunity to join in-person tasting events around the world. Or hop online and read through in-depth articles or join a digital gathering.

• One-year membership: $99
• One-year membership and tasting kit: $195
• One-year membership and full bottle: $160 to $260

Bounty Hunter’s monthly and quarterly whisky runner subscriptions pull two bottles for subscribers: one classic Scotch and one for Scotch-ish bottles from around the world.

The Napa Valley-based wine club started by working with local producers to bring beautiful, bold wines to subscribers every month. It has since extended into whiskey, with three different levels of club membership. The Top Shelf club brings three bottles of spirits from around the world, whether that’s a silky cognac, an elevated agave spirit from Mexico, or a rich Caribbean rum. All are ideal for sipping—the club is called top shelf for a reason. 

Bourbon fans can join a monthly club dedicated to the American spirit, while Scotch fans can level up to the Whisky Runner club: it focuses on Scotch whisky, highlighting two bottles from distillers around the globe, whether that’s a Scotch-style Japanese whiskey or older age statements from Scotland. One bottle is always something rare and exciting from around the world, while the other is a single malt or blended Scotch.

• Top Shelf club: $149 per shipment
• Bourbon Trail club: $249 per shipment
• Whisky Runner club: $299 per shipment