25K+ people found their calendar here last season. Find yours for 2026.
7 whisky advent calendars are new for 2026 on this page, every one rated, and they share one format (wax-sealed 30 ml drams, one a day to Christmas) from four bottlers: Master of Malt's original at 99.95 GBP, 25 drams at an average 46.5% ABV; Hard To Find's Scotch edition, a blue box with a gold map of Scotland, and its World edition, 134.95 each for 25; That Boutique-y Whisky Company's twenty-four of its own independent bottlings at 48.5% overall, also 134.95; and Drinks by the Dram's Premium at 199.95 for 25 top-shelf drams at 46.9%.
12 calendars, 7 new for 2026, most of them 24 doors. Full stats
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25 doorsThe 5 editions below are from 2025 and before. Most are sold out; the pages stay for the prices, the door lists and what changed year to year.
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24 doorsEditors’ pickOne for each way of asking. Every row clears the same bar — rated 4 out of 5 or better by an editor, or where none has scored it, an editors’ pick or contents worth more than the box — and nothing older than last season.
The drams are secret until the doors open, which is the point of the format and the thing to decide on before buying: nobody here prints a list, so the choice is the bottler and the tier. Per dram that is 4 GBP at Master of Malt, 5.40 at Hard To Find, 5.62 at Boutique-y and 8 at the Premium: 750 ml of whisky in each 25-day box, a bottle's worth. The same range's Old & Rare, Peaty, Sherry Cask, Japanese and Single Cask editions are not listed here yet.
Whisky calendars are wax-sealed 30 ml drams, one a day, from a bottler who keeps the line-up secret by design; wine boxes are 187 ml minis, a full glass, mostly with the list printed; the gin box is 5 cl a door, a double. Which of those the drinker wants decides the shelf before any price does.
7 of the 7 here come with the maker's list of what is behind the doors — Drinks by the Dram Premium Whisky 2026, Museum of Flaviar Whiskey Advent Calendar 2026 and Hard To Find Scotch Whisky 2026 among them; 0 do not. On a whisky shelf the secret is the format, so buy on the bottler's record and the strength; on wine and gin the list is printed and worth reading.
Across the 7 here with a list price, a door costs from about $5 to about $36, and the median is about $7.48. That is 4 GBP a dram at the standard whisky box and 8 at the premium; the difference is the tier of the whisky, not the amount. How the door price is counted
7 of the 12 on this page are 2026 editions and every one carries a verdict from us. The earlier editions stay listed for the record; the grid puts this season first.
The best value among the calendars here that we have rated this season, rated 4/5, £199.95, 25 doors. Twenty-five top-shelf drams at 46.9% overall, and two retailers price it the same. The drams are a secret by design, and it costs twice the standard Whisky box.
25 doors7 whiskey calendars for 2026, 6 brands we had never listed before.
| Pick | Calendar | Stock | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| First pick | Drinks by the Dram Premium Whisky 2026 | £199.95 | 25 | £8 | — | — | 4/5 | — |
| Over $200 | Museum of Flaviar Whiskey Advent Calendar 2026 | $270 | 24 | $11.25 | — | — | 4/5 | In stock |
| men | Hard To Find Scotch Whisky 2026 | £134.95 | 25 | £5.40 | — | — | 4/5 | — |
| — | Hard To Find World Whisky 2026 | £134.95 | 25 | £5.40 | — | — | 4/5 | — |
| — | Master of Malt Whisky 2026 | £99.95 | 25 | £4 | — | — | 4/5 | — |
| — | That Boutique-y Whisky Company 2026 | £134.95 | 24 | £5.62 | 1 | — | 4/5 | — |
| — | The Spirit Co Old & Rare Scotch 2026 | $899.99 | 25 | $36 | — | — | 3.5/5 | In stock |
Median price not quoted. Rough dollar rates, for ranking only.
Yes. 7 of the 12 whiskey advent calendars we list are 2026 editions. The other 5 are 2025 and 2024 boxes, which some retailers still stock.
24 doors is the commonest size for whiskey advent calendars, 6 of the 12 we list. The rest run 12 and 25.
11 brands make the 12 whiskey advent calendars we list. Hard To Find has the most with 2. The other 10 have one each.
