If you are thinking of buying a whisky cask, you may be wondering whether to go for an ex sherry cask. This video and blog will help you decide whether a sherry cask is for you. The first thing to understand is what a sherry cask actually is in today’s whisky market. You may want […]
We all know and love sherried whisky, but what exactly is a sherry cask? In this video we take a deep dive into the history of sherry casks and their use in the whisky industry.A big thank you again to Speyside Cooperage for hosting me. Do check it out if you ever find yourself up […]
As HMRC is owed billions of pounds worth of tax on the millions of barrels of whisky currently maturing in Scotland, they like to keep close tabs on where they all are. A cask must therefore be stored in a bonded warehouse with the proper licences in order for it to be exempt from duty. […]
Most of our customers choose to sell their casks of whisky in bond. This is because it is the most cost-effective way of selling your cask whether you are buying a whisky cask as an investment or because you love whisky. Yes, you can bottle your cask of whisky, but you should be fully aware […]
We can see why it may be easy to think that their must be an uplift in the value of whisky at anniversary years. Those are the ages you see on the shelves and so it stands to reason they must be more sort after. However, when it comes to selling your cask of whisky, […]
Investing in whisky casks is now accepted as a solid investment, this is something we have seen directly at Mark Littler LTD as we have helped our customer’s sell millions of pounds of cask, with each seeing healthy returns from their initial investment. We have seen alternative sources of information directly comparing the returns seen […]
Since Mark Littler started acting as a broker to sell whisky casks we have helped our customers sell their casks for anything from £5,000 to £147,000. All our customers bought their casks for an initial investment of £1,000 to £3,000. Whatever the returns seen by each customer they all had one thing in common. They […]
In the whisky cask industry the volume of a cask is described in litres, more specifically when you are looking at buying a cask of whisky you should be looking at the Bulk Litres, ABV and RLA (or OLA if the cask is less than 5 years old). Why you shouldn’t use bottle count to […]
In 2018 bottles of rare whisky were included in the Knight Frank Luxury Investment Index for the first time after they outperformed gold, art and jewellery. While their continued presence in the index confirms that whisky is now considered a luxury asset, you cannot use the success of whisky bottles to indicate how a cask of whisky […]