

Amazon Prime Day is here and with it plenty of whisky discounts. In fact, there are too many which means you may want the guiding hand of a whisky expert.
I have been lucky enough to review whisky for a living for a few years now, contributing to ShortList's best whisky guide, sampling American whiskey for our best bourbon guides and even trying out the best Irish whiskey that the Emerald Isle has to offer.
This year I was even one of only a handful of people in the world to review Middleton's €50,000 whiskey.
That doesn't mean that I have expensive tastes, though - quite the opposite. I love a bargain and there are plenty of whiskies that have been discounted this Amazon Prime Day.
I have looked at the thousands of deals and have chosen 5 whiskies - both whisky and bourbon - that I think you should splash out on this Prime Day.
They may not be the obvious choices, but that's the point: when whisky is discounted, it sometimes means that the price point finally hits that sweet spot of affordability for you.
Whichever one you choose from the below list, I don't think you will be disappointed. I certainly wasn't when I taste tested them...
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As Content Director of Shortlist, Marc likes nothing more than to compile endless lists of an evening by candlelight. He started out life as a movie writer for numerous (now defunct) magazines and soon found himself online - editing a gaggle of gadget sites, including TechRadar, Digital Camera World and Tom's Guide UK. At Shortlist you'll find him mostly writing about movies and tech, so no change there then.