Casks for Sale
We offer a number of casks for sale. These are always stored in our warehouse and you can book to visit anytime. We encourage cask purchase for the love of whisky, appreciation of change over the years, as a gift or part of a club. We do not advise buying for investment or a quick return. If you want it purely as an investment, don't do it.
The pitfalls of cask ownership:
1. Leakage - wooden casks can and do leak. Approximately 1 in 5 casks will leak a small amount, 1 in 15 casks will leak enough that we as a warehousekeeper would notice by looking at the figures on a computer screen. 1 in 50 casks might leak to empty. As you can see on several of the photographs on this website, casks are stored in steel racks where a leak might not always be obvious. For example 0.5ml dripping per minute would be 262 litres over the course of a year.
2. Evaporation - this is normal, with between 2% and 3% of the alcohol usually evaporating each year through the wooden cask.
3. Variable values - Cask values are influenced by many factors such as the quantity in the cask, popularity of the brand, who is buying the cask (will they bottle it to retail it themselves, use distributors or hold onto the cask for much longer). Fear of missing out has caused many would-be investors to enter the market in prior years, pushing prices up beyond what could actually be achieved when the bottles are sold. We are now in a period of reset, where cask prices return to lower values.
The benefits of cask ownership:
1. If you're an independent bottler or a whisky shop you can buy whisky at cheap "per bottle" prices.
2. If you're a private owner who understands the risks, you might also get your hands on a lot of relatively cheap whisky.
3. For private owners, clubs and shops, you can play with your cask, swapping whisky into different types of wood for different flavours. You can visit, you can sample in the warehouse and you can make decisions on what you'd like that whisky to taste like in the future. This can be a lot of fun, especially for a group of 5-10 friends who can sit and discuss the progress of the whisky.
The whisky industry is above all a friendly one, so if you enjoy a dram and can afford it, the whole process should be good fun.