Duty-free whisky at Sydney

Highland single malt from Aberfeldy in Perthshire, built by the Dewar family in 1898 and the heart of Dewar's blends. A rich, honeyed style.

Speyside single malt from the village of Aberlour, founded by James Fleming in 1879. Known for double-cask (sherry and bourbon) ageing and the cask-strength A'bunadh.

Kentucky bourbon from Louisville, finished in port wine barrels. Founded by master distiller Lincoln Henderson.

Sydney distillery founded in 2014, the city's first in over a century. Uses Australian barley and malts some of it in-house.

Speyside single malt from near Keith, in the Dewar's family of malts. Light, grassy and clean; for most of its life it went into blends.

Blended Scotch dating back to George Ballantine's Edinburgh grocery of 1827, and one of the world's best-selling Scotch blends. Smooth with a light sweetness.

Speyside single malt from Dufftown, sister to Glenfiddich. One of the few distilleries that still malts some of its own barley on a malting floor and keeps coopers and a coppersmith on site.

Bourbon from the Beam family's small-batch range, named after a pioneer distiller. A high-rye recipe at 80 proof makes it light and spicy.

Islay distillery on the shore of Loch Indaal, reopened in 2001. Its own whisky is unpeated, unusual on Islay; it also makes the peated Port Charlotte and the super-heavily peated Octomore.

Kentucky bourbon from the Buffalo Trace distillery in Frankfort, which kept working through Prohibition making 'medicinal' whiskey. Sweet, with vanilla, toffee and spice.

Irish whiskey from Bushmills in County Antrim, Northern Ireland, which dates its licence to 1608. Triple-distilled, light and honeyed.

Canadian whisky founded by Hiram Walker in Windsor, Ontario, in 1858. Light and smooth, a classic mixer.

Blended Scotch from Aberdeen, where brothers James and John Chivas ran a fine-food shop in the 1800s. Built around Strathisla single malt from Speyside, it has a smooth, honeyed style.

Highland single malt from Alness on the Cromarty Firth. Every bottle carries a 12-pointed royal stag; the style is rich, sherried and chocolatey.

Speyside single malt from Dufftown, built by William Grant and his family in 1887 and still family-owned. One of the best-selling single malts in the world, with a fresh pear-and-apple style.

Blended Scotch from William Grant & Sons, the family behind Glenfiddich, in its triangular bottle. Triple Wood is aged in three kinds of cask.

Tennessee whiskey from Lynchburg. Before ageing, the new spirit drips through sugar-maple charcoal (the Lincoln County Process), which gives its soft, sweet style.

Irish whiskey first made by John Jameson in Dublin in 1780, now distilled at Midleton in County Cork. Triple-distilled for a smooth, light style.

Kentucky straight bourbon from Clermont, made by the Beam family's distillery and the world's best-selling bourbon. Light, sweet and vanilla-led; a go-to for mixing.

Began as John Walker's grocery shop in Kilmarnock in 1820 and is now the world's best-selling Scotch whisky. The colour-coded labels step up from Red, a mixer, through Black and Gold to Blue.

Single malt from the Isle of Jura, off Scotland's west coast: an island of a few hundred people and one distillery. Mostly sweet and smooth with a light touch of peat.

Small-batch Kentucky bourbon from the Beam family, created by Booker Noe. Full-bodied at 100 proof.

Islay single malt, made on the island's south coast since 1815. Famous for heavy peat smoke with a medicinal, seaweed edge: you either love it or you don't.

Tasmanian distillery founded in 1992 by Bill Lark, who helped start Australia's whisky revival. Peated with Tasmanian peat.