Single malt, Japanese, and blends that earned the word
Est. 2026
Boat Quay
Members Only
Web & App — 2026
We took a vow. It wasn't sobriety.
The Monk Club is a member’s cellar on the river. An allowance turns up every month, a deliberately short list of very good bottles sits behind it at the price the trade pays, and somebody else carries them up your stairs. Monks did the hard part nine centuries ago. We added a van.
The Monk Club
Est. Boat Quay
Member price
20–30% under
Allowance
Monthly
Rollover
60 days
Vows taken
One
§ 001
The Rule
Three articles.
We stopped there on purpose.
The Rule of St Benedict runs to seventy-three chapters. Ours runs to three, and one of them is essentially about doorbells.
ART. I
Money turns up monthly
Credits land the day your term ticks over. Spend them across the cellar at member prices. Had a quiet month? It rolls for sixty days. Nobody here is going to punish you for a fortnight of behaving well.
ART. II
You choose. We don't.
No mystery box. No algorithm deciding you’re a rum person now. Our buyers keep the list short and will cheerfully argue for anything on it, at length, unprompted. Want more than your allowance covers? Buy it outright, same price.
ART. III
It arrives. ID gets checked.
Pick a window between 07:00 and 22:30 and we’ll be there. Identification checked at the door every single time — no offence meant, it’s simply the law, and we’re rather attached to our licence.
§ 002
Habits
Pick a habit.
Yes, that's the joke.
Singapore dollars, GST already inside them, because surprise tax at checkout is a hostile act. Commit for longer and pay less — 5% off half-yearly, 10% off yearly. That’s the entire negotiation.
Billing termSelect one
Social
Tuesday habit
S$
99
/mo
- One good bottle every month
- Member prices on everything else
- Sixty-day rollover on unspent credit
- Delivery, free, when you say
- A buyer's pick, if you want one
Connoisseur
Where most land
S$
189
/mo
- Two bottles monthly, one a premium spirit
- First look when something limited lands
- Member prices on everything else
- Sixty-day rollover on unspent credit
- Delivery, free, when you say
- An invitation when we pour something interesting
Reserve
Serious habit
S$
379
/mo
- Three bottles monthly, rare and aged included
- First refusal when something scarce arrives
- An actual human who knows what you drink
- Two event passes a quarter
- Sixty-day rollover on unspent credit
- The good delivery slots
Every habit carries a monthly ceiling. It keeps us solvent and keeps you sensible. Extra bottles are always there at member price — we’re a cellar, not a confessional.
§ 003
The Maths
Now the bit where
we ruin the fantasy.
Somebody, somewhere, has offered you unlimited premium liquor for one flat monthly fee. We genuinely wanted to build that. Then we opened a calculator, and the calculator was rude about it.
Here is one entirely ordinary bottle — 700ml, 40% ABV — and what it costs before a single person has been paid, before a courier turns a key, before we have seen one cent.
Anyone promising unlimited is either pouring you something grim, or going out of business politely. Usually both, in that order.
So we built the honest version instead. A fixed allowance, a short list we’ll defend to your face, and a discount you’re welcome to check against any shelf in town. Bring the receipt. We’ll wait.
One bottle · 700ml · 40% ABV
SGD
Excise duty (S$88 per litre of pure alcohol)
24.64
What the bottle costs us, wholesale
18.00–32.00
Getting it to your door
8.00
Goods & services tax
9%
Floor, before anybody earns a thing
≈ 50.64+
Duty figure per Singapore Customs. Every extra bottle carries that same floor again — which is exactly why one flat fee for unlimited bottles cannot hold. The allowance prices each bottle honestly instead. Less romantic. Still here in five years.
§ 004
The Cellar
Short list.
Long arguments.
Thirty to fifty bottles at opening. Every one had to survive a genuine row in a room before it earned shelf space. Nobody can buy their way onto this list — somebody tried, and it went badly for them.
01
Whisky
02
Gin & Agave
Small batch gin, mezcal, tequila that isn’t a dare
03
Wine
Old world, new world, champagne for a Tuesday
04
Reserve
Rare, aged, and gone before we finish typing this
§ 005
The App
iOS & Android — landing 2026
The cellar,
in the pocket.
Web store opens first, and we’re not holding anything back for the app — everything works in a browser from day one. The apps arrive later this year and simply cut the distance between wanting a bottle and having one.
I
The allowance, live
What’s left, what’s rolling over, and the day it lapses. Updates the second you spend.
II
Delivery in two taps
Pick a window, watch the courier close in, clear the ID check from the phone in your hand.
III
A nudge when something rare lands
Scarce bottles arrive in embarrassingly small numbers. Reserve members hear before anyone else.
Coming soon
App Store
Coming soon
Google Play
Anyone on the list gets the early build before it goes public. Bugs included, free of charge.
§ 006
Admission
The first hundred
set the house style.
We’re letting a small group in before we open properly. Early access, your rate held for a year, and genuine influence over what we stock — which is a generous way of saying you get to tell us we’re wrong.
Form A — Application
2026
§ 007
Inquiries
Things you'd ask
at the bar.
Credit that lands the day your term renews, spendable across the whole cellar at member prices. Whatever you don't use rolls forward sixty days. Think budget, not ration — you can always spend past it at the same price.
Because the arithmetic says no, and we'd rather tell you now than have us both find out in eighteen months. Excise duty alone is roughly S$24.64 on a standard bottle before we've bought anything at all. It's all laid out in § 003, in a table, like adults.
Yes, at the same member price, with the same free delivery. No penalty, no upsell email, no raised eyebrow from anyone.
07:00 to 22:30 daily — that's Singapore liquor licensing, not us being precious. Outside those hours we may only deliver to non-public premises: homes, offices, hotel rooms. You pick the window at checkout.
Every time. NRIC or passport at sign-up, and the courier checks again at the door. If there's nobody of age to sign, the bottle leaves with them. We know it's mildly annoying. We're doing it anyway.
Monthly memberships pause or end before your next renewal, no phone call, no retention specialist. Half-yearly and yearly run to the end of what you've paid for — that commitment is precisely what pays for the lower rate.
Web first, then iOS and Android during 2026. The app adds face unlock, allocation alerts and quicker scheduling. Nothing is being held hostage until it ships.
We do — bulk memberships, client gifting, event supply, all off the same wholesale base. Apply above and mention it when we write back. Your finance team will find us refreshingly literal about pricing.
§ 008
Conduct
The one serious bit.
We’re letting a small group in before we open properly. Early access, your rate held for a year, and genuine influence over what we stock — which is a generous way of saying you get to tell us we’re wrong.
If you’re worried about your drinking, or someone else’s, the National Addictions Management Service offers confidential help in Singapore on 6-RECOVER (6732 6837)