Category: Whisky Shops
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3 Greek Street, London: Douglas Laing’s Allt-A-Bhainne 16-Year-Old is the Speyside sherry cask worth finding
There is a door in Soho with a bold “No. 3” above it, and if you push it open, you walk into what is arguably London’s most storied whisky address. 3 Greek Street spent decades as the home of Milroy’s of Soho before its recent 60th-anniversary transformation. The shelves are still floor to ceiling. The…
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Buffalo Trace London: Is the Covent Garden bourbon tasting worth your time?
Buffalo Trace Distillery London is a dedicated bourbon experience and retail shop at 32-33 Long Acre, Covent Garden. Their flagship tasting, “Tradition and Change: Crafting the Most Awarded American Whiskey,” guides small groups through five pours — White Dog Mash #1, Buffalo Trace Bourbon, Eagle Rare 10-Year-Old, E.H. Taylor Jr. Small Batch, and a Buffalo…
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The Whisky Shop: inside the UK’s largest specialist retailer, and whether it’s worth your money
The Whisky Shop has been selling Scotch since 1992, and somewhere along the way it quietly became the biggest specialist whisky chain in the country. Twenty-three shops, boutiques in Paris and Cannes, and more than 2.5 million people through the doors every year. That scale is the whole story here, and it cuts both ways.…
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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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