This Lunar New Year, we round up auspicious pours and limited-edition bottlings to help you welcome the Year of the Horse, raising a glass to momentum, merry spirits, and the good fortune that comes galloping in
There’s a reason the Horse has long been shorthand for forward motion—decisive, spirited, and always a touch untameable. As Lunar New Year 2026 approaches (it officially begins on 17 February), the mood feels suitably geared towards action: the kind that turns “one day” plans into bookings, bold toasts, and yes, the occasional celebratory splurge.
Naturally, the spirits world has come to the party. Across whisky, cognac, and beyond, producers are leaning into festive design cues, gift-friendly packaging, and release calendars timed for reunion dinners and house-visiting season. From collector-worthy labels to bottles made expressly for sharing, here are the Lunar New Year drops worth making room for on your bar cart—before they trot off for good.
Johnnie Walker Blue Label x Robert Wun
Johnnie Walker is ushering in the Year of the Horse with a fashion-forward twist: a Johnnie Walker Blue Label limited-edition design created in collaboration with Hong Kong-born, London-based haute couturier Robert Wun—a meeting of rare whisky craft and couture-level imagination. Wun’s sculptural, avant-garde language channels the Horse’s symbolism of strength, freedom, and optimism, while inside sits Blue Label itself, drawn from the brand’s reserves where only one in 10,000 casks makes the cut; think layered notes of rich spice, vanilla, honey, caramel, hazelnut and dark chocolate, finishing long and smoky.
Glen Grant’s Lunar New Year collection
The Glen Grant is leaning into the festive spirit with a limited-edition Lunar New Year Collection, an elegant trio of its 12-, 15- and 18-Year-Old single malts, each housed in a Year of the Horse gift box that comes with two glasses (a neat nod to the belief that good fortune comes in pairs).
Expect a bright, fruit-led throughline across the range: the 12-Year-Old opens with apple pie, caramel and almonds (and is even pitched as a smart match for pineapple tarts), while the 15-Year-Old deepens into spiced pears, toffee and apricot marmalade, ideal with richer bites like kueh bangkit, we think.
The collection lands from mid-January 2026 at selected Cold Storage outlets and retailers including Bottles & Bottles, Asher BWS and Cellarbration, with additional festive pours and cocktail moments rolling out at bars such as Skai Bar, Night Hawk and The Other Room.
Penfolds Lunar New Year Grange 2021
Penfolds is greeting the Year of the Horse at full gallop with a collector-friendly take on its flagship label: the Penfolds Lunar New Year Grange 2021 (750ml), presented in a bespoke Horse-themed gift box awash in festive red, gold and jade, designed to evoke the animal’s emblematic strength, speed and perseverance.
What makes this edition especially giftable is the theatre built into the packaging—a personalisation-ready box that comes with a special tool to gently lift sections of the outer layer, revealing intricate, paper-cut-inspired artwork beneath; the base even detaches to turn that tool into a Penfolds keyring, a keepsake intended to outlast the last lo hei.
In Singapore, it arrives from January 2026 via select fine wine retailers including 1855 Bottle Shop, Le Rouge, Moomba and Cellarbration, priced at SGD$1,008 RRP.
L’Or de Jean Martell Zodiac Edition – Assemblage du Cheval
Martell’s Lunar New Year showpiece for 2026 is, suitably, a thoroughbred: L’Or de Jean Martell Zodiac Edition – Assemblage du Cheval, released in a strictly limited run of 500 individually numbered bottles. Crafted by Cellar Master Christophe Valtaud using very old eaux-de-vie drawn from past Years of the Horse—with a focus on Grande Champagne—the blend is described as full and supple on the nose (honey, candied fruit, floral tones), before unfolding into red fruit and blackcurrant on the palate with length and complexity.
It’s packaged as a statement piece too: a mouthblown Baccarat crystal decanter crowned with a deep red horse’s-head stopper, resting on a golden pedestal with a horseshoe motif, and housed in a wooden case.
In Singapore, a limited number will be available exclusively via Le Cercle (pricing on request), and the release is paired with The House of Martell pop-up happening at ION Orchard B4 Indoor Atrium from 5 to 12 February 2026. Entry is complimentary.
