Whisky Gifts For Father's Day

Father's Day is upon us again, and we've come up with a choice selection of Father's Day whiskies and other fine spirits from our world-beating range.

There's a whisky for all kinds of dad here, from the full-on hearty, rugged Ardbeg Uigeadail through to the naturally stylish Glenlivet 1991 Nadurra Triumph.  For the open-minded and adventurous fathers we've got the exotic Hibiki 12yo from Japan, while the Dalmore Dee Dram is the perfect present for the keen anglers and the eco-friendly.

Of course, not all Fathers like whisky -  so we've also included some of our favourite Father's Day Cognac, Father's Day Rum, Father's Day Vodka and Father's Day Gin as well.  For the young at heart we've even got the splendid Don Julio reposado tequila and the award-winning English vodka, Chase. 


Traditionalist dads, though, may prefer the generously aromatic Tanqueray 10 gin or the altogether more refined, elegant pleasures of Hine Antique XO Premier Cru - one for the smoothies and the suave dads out there.


We've got all bases covered here - so sit back, have a browse through our Father's Day gift ideas, and reflect on some of the fascinating facts laid out below in our potted history of the Father's Day celebration...

10 Facts You Never Knew About Fathers Day

• Although the first Father's Day was held in 1908 in a church in West Virginia, the movement really came into being when a Mrs Sonora Dodd was listening to a Mother's Day sermon in Spokane, Washington a year later. Mrs Dodd was inspired by her own father, who had brought her and five siblings up after the early death of their mother.
  


• Mrs Dodd led such a determined campaign to get Father's Day off the ground that within two years a Bill had been introduced and Mrs Dodd herself had been given life membership of the Spokane Advertising Club.
   


• However, the initial wave of enthusiasm for the new holiday was confined mainly to local menswear retailers and tobacconists. Although Father's Day was becoming more widely known, it possessed neither the credibility nor the sentimentality of Mother's Day and became a target for contemporary wags, who portrayed it as the beginning of a slippery slope to a proliferation of holidays such as 'Maiden Aunt's Day' or 'Household Pets Day'.
  


• Almost from its inception, Father's Day has been a rich source of humour, with men being portrayed as bewildered by displays of affection and eventually being lumbered with the bills for inappropriate or frivolous gifts which they would then have to pretend to like. 
  


• This was in the days when socks, ties and pipes or packets of cigarettes were still considered as acceptable Father's Day gifts, of course. Nowadays most men are secretly disappointed if they don't get a bottle of spirits on Father's Day...
  


• Sonora Dodd herself eventually gave up on promoting the holiday, studied Art in Chicago and reinvented herself in her late thirties as a poet and painter, before going to Hollywood to work in fashion design. By 1920 it appeared that Father's Day was on the way out.
  


• Father's Day survived though, thanks to the Associated Mens Wear Retailers who founded a National Father's Day Committee to promote the holiday in the 1930s with the snappy slogan "Give Dad Something To Wear". 
  


• By taking the ingenious step of incorporating the widespread gentle mockery of the holiday into their advertising practices, advertisers ensured that the public's affection for Father's Day grew - people knew they were being taken for a ride, but they didn't mind as the whole idea made them smile.
  


• The Associated Mens Wear Retailers were so successful with this strategy that they had to set up a larger Father's Day Council in 1938 incorporating (among other new members) the National Retail Dry Goods Association and the National Association of Tobacco Distributors. Father's Day has never looked back and is now the largest gifting holiday outside of Christmas.
  


• Although the most common date for Father's Day is the third Sunday of June, many other countries observe different dates for the celebration. Australia, New Zealand, Fiji and Papua New Guinea mark the occasion on the first Sunday of September, while several Scandinavian countries celebrate on the second Sunday of November. Bulgarian fathers are worst off though, with their official Day being held on 26th December - perhaps the one day of the year when most dads are almost guaranteed to have a hangover.