Sell Your Scotch Malt Whisky Society Whisky
Are you looking to sell your Scotch Malt Whisky Society whisky but don’t know where to start?
At Mark Littler LTD we make the selling process as simple as possible by handling all of the logistics, paperwork and fully insured shipping. We have been helping people sell their whisky for nearly 10 years and have hundreds of five star Google reviews.
Sell Your Scotch Malt Whisky Society Whisky With Mark Littler
Simply fill in the valuation form and we will see what offers we can get from our collection of private clients and send you a referral to a specialist whisky auctioneer.
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Please use the form below to submit images of your bottle and receive a free, no-obligation valuation from a specialist auctioneer. We will also actively seek the highest offer from our network of private collectors to help you sell your whisky.
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How We Can Help You Sell Your Whisky
Our brokerage service is a simple, stress-free way to sell your bottles of whisky. We will broker the sale between you and one of our buyers. For this service, we charge a 10% commission (inc. VAT) of the final sale price of the item. This avenue is fast and simple. We will take care of everything for you.
Alternatively we can help you sell your bottles through auction. With close to 30,000 bottles being sold at auction every month you have to be sure that your bottles are being sold in the right auction to achieve the highest price. There is no charge for our assistance selling at auction
What Our Customers Say
Do You Remember This Story?
In 2020 we sold a vertical of Macallan 18 year old for Matthew Robson for £44,000!
The story went viral being covered from the BBC, to India, to the USA.
Matthew had been given a bottle every year from his father as a birthday gift and at the time of sale amounted to 28 bottles, all with their original boxes.
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It was a pleasure to work with Matthew, assisting him in obtaining the highest possible amount for his collection. Now, let us use our experience and connections to assist you.
“I was looking to sell my whisky collection of 28 bottles of Macallan 18 year old to fund the purchase of my first house, so I got in touch with Mark.
My father gave me 1 bottle each year for a birthday present so that by the time that I was 18 I would have 18 bottles of 18 year old Macallan. (Yes I’m that guy who was plastered over the media)
Mark did a great job of getting professional photos taken of them and creating a PR buzz around the collection and I even ended up on BBC breakfast news, lad bible, and various radio stations around the world.
At one point my story was the second most viewed story on BBC world wide news app for the whole weekend with over 2 million views.
Needless to say within a day or two of this PR Campaign there was numerous offers.
I would like to thank Mark for all his work and helping me with everything.”
The History Of Scotch Malt Whisky Society Whisky
Scotch Malt Whisky Society (SMWS) is a highly exclusive club for members and independent bottler that was first formed by some friends in 1983 in the Scottish capital, the group purchases and bottles whiskies from over 125 distilleries around the world and then sells them on to members. Ben Tindall, an architect, W Gordon Smith, a writer, David Alison, a contractor, Russel Hunter, an actor and Philip ‘Pip’ Hills, a tax accountant started it all.
Philip Hills was already a scotch enthusiast and spent much of his free time travelling the country and tasting at different distilleries. The first purchase they made was a Glenfarclas cask that they occasionally drew bottles from to share among themselves. A short time later the noted Vaults building became available and the friends officially set up the SMWS and the first bottling commenced, appropriately numbered as 1.1 from the Glenfarclas – a sherry cask – was released. After which the society released bottles every month until their expansion.
Although Hills left the society in 1995, it continued as a private organisation. In 1996 it introduced a private share scheme that used the funds raised to purchase another member’s club, this time in London at Greville Street. It then opened a third base in Edinburgh, along Queen Street. However, this was subsequently purchased by Glenmorangie on the same year.
For its 25th anniversary the society made some striking changes, to both the label and the shape of the bottle. Then, further changes were made to their bottles for new releases during 2017 and onwards so that the styles of the whiskies were better emphasised.
There is no argument that The Scotch Malt Whisky Society is one of the most influential bottlers with regard to the popularity for single malts, not just throughout the UK, but around the world. They are noted as being one of the first to really promote the idea of single casks and bottling malts at cask strength.
Glenmorangie Plc purchased SMWS in 2004 and it later passed to private investors in 2015.