Cadenhead's WhiskyShop

Wm Cadenhead was founded in Aberdeen in 1842 and now trades as Scotland's oldest independent whisky bottler, choosing casks from working distilleries and bottling them in small batches without chill-filtration or added colouring. The company's London shop moved from Covent Garden to Chiltern Street in Marylebone in 2008, fitting a tasting room into the lower ground floor. Cadenhead's remains one of only three shops the company runs itself, alongside outlets in Edinburgh and Campbeltown. Staff pour six-dram guided tastings for £45 a head and host monthly sessions previewing new releases. Besides whisky, the shelves carry the company's own rum, gin, calvados, cognac and armagnac.