Author: thedailywhisky
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Sotheby’s Whisky & Spirits: inside the auction house that sold the £2.19m Macallan
Sotheby’s Whisky & Spirits is the auction house’s dedicated rare-spirits department and the current market leader for collectible whisky. It runs live auctions, timed online sales and private sales across London, New York, Hong Kong and Paris, handling everything from vintage Macallan and Brora to Japanese Karuizawa and rare bourbon. It holds the world record…
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Just Whisky Auctions: the monthly online auction where sellers pay 0% commission
Just Whisky Auctions made one decision that sets it apart from most whisky auction houses: it takes nothing from the seller at all decided to take nothing from the seller at all. Sellers pay 0% commission and a flat £7.50 per bottle, and that single decision is the main reason the platform keeps turning up…
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The Grand Whisky Auction: how to buy and sell rare whisky online, and what it actually costs
The Grand Whisky Auction is an online whisky auction house based in the Highlands of Scotland, running monthly auctions of rare and collectible bottles to a global pool of buyers and sellers. It focuses on rare Scotch but regularly lists Japanese malts, bourbon, and limited editions from names like Macallan, Dalmore, and Yamazaki. Buying and…
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Whisky Hammer: how the Aberdeenshire auction house became a global home for rare and collectable whisky
Whisky Hammer is an online whisky auction house based in Ellon, Aberdeenshire, founded in 2015 by brothers Daniel and Craig Milne. It runs monthly auctions of rare, limited-edition, and collectable bottles, with bids arriving from more than 80 countries. Buyers pay 12.5% commission on the hammer price; sellers currently pay 0% commission plus a £6…
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Scotch Whisky Auctions: how the world’s biggest online whisky auction site actually works
If you have ever chased a discontinued Macallan, a closed-distillery Port Ellen, or a Japanese bottle that vanished from shelves a decade ago, the secondary market is where you end up. And for a huge share of that trade, the road leads to one place in Glasgow. Scotch Whisky Auctions is the largest dedicated online…
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Whisky Auctioneer review: how Scotland’s biggest online whisky auction house actually works
Whisky Auctioneer is one of the world’s largest online whisky auction houses, and for most collectors outside the trade it is the simplest way to buy a bottle that never reaches a retail shelf. Founded in Perth in 2013, it runs monthly global auctions of old, rare and collectible whisky, with seller commission of 5%…
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WhiskyAuction.com: the 1997 original that still runs whisky auctions on its own terms
WhiskyAuction.com is the oldest online whisky auction house in the world, founded in 1997 by Thomas Krüger and Klaus Rosenfeld and run from Fockbek in northern Germany. It holds one auction a month that closes across a single Saturday evening, with categories ending every five minutes. Two things set it apart from the UK houses…
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Catawiki Whisky Auctions: how the platform works, what it costs, and whether it’s worth it
Most whisky drinkers meet the secondary market the same way: a bottle they wanted is sold out everywhere, and the only copies left are at auction. Catawiki is one of the biggest doors into that market, and also one of the most misunderstood. It is not a specialist whisky auctioneer. It is a giant general…
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The Whisky Exchange review: is London’s rare-whisky specialist worth buying from?
Most whisky shops sell you a bottle. The Whisky Exchange built its name selling you the bottle nobody else could find. The Whisky Exchange is the world’s leading specialist online retailer for fine whiskies and spirits, with a catalogue of more than 9,000 bottles, three shops in central London, and a back catalogue of old,…
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The Whisky World: the family-owned London retailer behind The Whisky Event London
If you have ever stood on the floor at The Whisky Event in London, you have already shopped at The Whisky World, whether you realised it or not. The family-owned retailer is the company behind the event, and the pricelist at every exhibitor stand is theirs. That connection is the quickest way to understand what…
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