Decoding Whiskey Auctions: From Headline Prices to True Valuations
Record prices make the headlines, but the average hammer price is what tells you what a bottle is actually worth.
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Bidding Against the Clock
Why do bidders still wait for the last second when proxy bidding does the job for them? It comes down to ego, control and a few well-known cognitive traps.
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Whiskey Exploration: The Maturation Process
How Whiskey is matured, basically. Here are the legal restraints over maturation for bourbon, Irish and Scotch, and then the influences a cask can have on a whiskey through maturation and ‘finishing’. Bourbon: – Aged in new charred oak containers – Made in the United States – Barreled at no higher than 125 proof/62.5% ABV…
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Whiskey Exploration: How Irish Whiskey Is Made
How Irish Whiskey is made, basically. Irish whiskey can be dated back as far as 1405, about 90 years before the first recorded Scotch (1494). It used to be a highly coveted commodity, with over 200 licensed distilleries back in 1790. Then came a big downturn at the turn of the 20th century: Ireland’s struggle…
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Irish Distilleries Making Sanatising Products
Blakes of The Hollow are bottling a 16 year old Powers from 1964 that sat unlabelled in a screwcap bottle for decades, and only 160 will be sold.
