Old Moon Spirits is a Singapore bottle shop with a simple, contagious mission: a clarion call to drink better. Operating from 216 Joo Chiat Road in the Joo Chiat neighbourhood, it builds a genuine culture around Japanese shochu, Okinawan awamori and rum, curating bottles by producer, ingredient, region and price so that both curious newcomers and seasoned drinkers can find their way in.
The shochu and awamori shelf runs from easy everyday bottlings to koshu and kusu — the aged expressions — with themed collections like the Shochu & Awamori Starter Pack, The Art of Barrel Ageing, Highball King & Queens and The Authentic Awamori Experience guiding the way. Rum lovers get serious provenance too, with Velier, Clairin, Hampden, Foursquare, Neisson, Renegade, Beenleigh, Isautier and Mhoba among the names represented, from Haiti to Martinique to South Africa.
New arrivals rotate through regularly, a Learn section answers the basics for the shochu-curious, and personal recommendations are a WhatsApp message away — just ask Jason, or follow the shop's Instagram and Telegram channel. Delivery is free on orders of $150 and above.
Old Moon Spirits calls itself "a clarion call to drink better" — and everything about the shop follows through on that promise. Based at 216 Joo Chiat Road, #04-20, in one of Singapore's most characterful neighbourhoods, it is a specialist bottle shop devoted to three spirit families: Japanese shochu, Okinawan awamori, and rum. Rather than stocking a bit of everything, the team builds a genuine culture around these categories, curating bottles by producer, ingredient, region and price, and helping drinkers find the ones that truly suit their palate. Every bottle is listed with its ABV, so strength is never a guessing game.
Shochu anchors the range. The catalogue can be explored by producer — Kamimura Shuzo, Nangoku Shuzo, Nishikawa Shuzo, Takata Shuzo, Tokuyama Shuzo, Wakashio Shuzo and Yaesen Shuzo — by ingredient, including sweet potato (imo), rice (kome), barley (mugi) and brown sugar (kokuto), or by region across Kumamoto, Kagoshima, Miyazaki and Okinawa. Blended shochu has its own collection too, alongside dedicated shelves for koshu (aged shochu) and barrel-aged expressions that highlight the extra dimension time in wood can bring.
Awamori, Okinawa's own distilled spirit, is treated with equal care, from approachable bottlings such as Yura, SHIMAURARA and Shurei to kusu — aged awamori — and barrel-aged releases like YAESEN Barrel. Themed collections make it all easy to navigate: the Shochu & Awamori Starter Pack gathers best sellers for first-timers, The Authentic Awamori Experience hunts down what the shop calls OG awamori funk, Highball King & Queens spotlights modern-palate shochus made for soda-lengthened glasses, and Sun, Sand & Sea Vibes lines up refreshing bottles for bright afternoons.
The rum shelf is just as considered. Alongside releases from the importer Velier, bottles are organised by origin: Clairin from Haiti, Hampden from Jamaica, Foursquare from Barbados, Neisson from Martinique, plus rum from Guyana, Trinidad & Tobago, Marie Galante, Grenada (Renegade), Australia (Beenleigh), the Seychelles, La Réunion (Isautier) and South Africa (Mhoba). On the shelf at any moment you might find the Hampden 8 Year Old at 46% ABV, Foursquare's Covenant ECS' XXIII Mark at a bold 58%, Bally's 2006 brut de fût Conquête, or Isautier's 12 Year Old Alfred Rhum Vieux.
New arrivals rotate through regularly — recent additions have included Oak Road, Yuki Long-aged, Yamahotaru, Yaesen Black Pearl, the ZERO PRISMA twin-bottle set and Danryu CRAFT — and rarities come and go, with the Bally Art Déco Batch 2 Conquête already sold out at the time of writing. It is a list that rewards repeat visits.
What sets Old Moon apart is how much teaching happens around the selling. A Learn section answers the basics — What is Shochu? and What is Awamori? — for the simply curious, while an Experiences page points to ways of going deeper than a single bottle. For those who prefer to dip a toe in, the Starter Pack is the gentlest possible on-ramp.
Undecided? The standing invitation is to "Ask Jason": recommendations are one WhatsApp message away, and the shop's Instagram feed and Telegram channel keep followers in the ongoing conversation about drinking better.
Checking out is straightforward. Browse by price tier — under $80, $80 to $150, or $150 and up — then pay by Visa, Mastercard, American Express, Union Pay, Apple Pay, Google Pay or Shop Pay. Delivery is free on orders of $150 and above, which makes it easy to pair a fresh arrival with something older and stranger from the back catalogue.
Whether you are a highball devotee, a rum lover chasing a specific island's profile, or simply shochu-curious and unsure where to begin, Old Moon Spirits on Joo Chiat Road is built to meet you where you are — and to send you home with something better than you expected.