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Platinum Cask specialise in exclusive, rare and aged whiskies from great distilleries around Scotland, Japan and all over the world.

26/08/2026

£130 in 1971. £270,000 today.

Angus Kerr, a Surrey pensioner, bought a cask of Glenrothes single malt back in 1971, hoping it would help pay for his children's school fees one day. He doesn't even drink Scotch.

The company he bought it from went bust a few years later. He lost contact, assumed the money was gone, and moved on with life, kids, and everything else that gets in the way.

Decades later, out of nowhere, a Glasgow company contacted him, saying he owed storage fees on a barrel he'd almost forgotten existed. That barrel turned out to be the oldest of its kind known to still exist, containing enough for roughly 287 bottles, and tasting experts have called the 57-year-old whisky "absolutely fantastic."It's now going up for sale at £270,000.

"I don't drink Scotch," Kerr told BBC Radio Surrey. "If I did, I'd be looking around for something that was £18, no more."

Sometimes the best investment is the one you forget about.
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21/08/2026

Most whisky warehouses in Scotland are built up, high enough to keep the sea from ever reaching them. Bowmore's No.1 Vaults was built down into it instead.

Part of the structure sits below the level of Loch Indaal outside — one wall doubles as the town's own sea wall. It's been standing that way since 1779, making it the oldest whisky maturation warehouse in the world.

Salt air moves through the stone year-round. The temperature barely shifts with the seasons. Even during the Second World War, when the rest of the distillery stopped making whisky for five years, the vault kept doing exactly what it's always done — ageing spirit, slowly, below the waterline.

That's the environment casks have matured in here for nearly 250 years: cool, damp, and unchanged. It's part of why whisky aged in this room develops the way it does — and why so little is ever lost to the Angel's Share.

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14/08/2026

In March 1941, during the Second World War, German bombers targeted Clydebank, a shipbuilding town on the Clyde. Auchentoshan distillery was caught in the blast. Warehouses destroyed, close to a million litres of whisky lost, production stopped for the rest of the war.

What survived was something else — a method of distilling used almost nowhere else in Scotland. Auchentoshan runs its spirit through three stills, not two, for every drop it makes. It's a Lowland tradition that's all but disappeared everywhere else, and Auchentoshan never stopped doing it.

The result is one of the lightest, smoothest whiskies to come out of the country — still made the way it always was.

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12/08/2026

A visit to where the casks are kept.

Our team travelled to Castlelaw Bonded Warehoue, Scotland, to meet with clients and visit the storage site where the casks we manage are held.

Seeing the casks we're responsible for in person, from the storage areas and racking to talking with the team who run the warehouse, gave us a fuller picture of how casks are cared for at every stage.

For us, investing in a whisky cask doesn't end on the day you buy it. It's about knowing where the asset you hold is kept, and how it's looked after.

Thank you to the team at Castlelaw Bonded Warehouse for the warm welcome and for showing us around the storage site.

Another day from Scotland, and another side of the business we wanted to share with you.

11/08/2026

In 1934, a young woman joined Laphroaig as a shorthand typist. Nobody could have guessed what came next.

By the outbreak of the war, Bessie Williamson was effectively running the distillery on her own.

When its owner died in 1954, she inherited it outright — becoming the first woman to have owned and run a Scotch whisky distillery in the twentieth century.

Decades later, a young Prince of Wales chose Laphroaig for his own Royal Warrant — a distinction the distillery has held ever since.

Her name doesn't just live in the history books.
Today it's back on a cask label, as Williamson.

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07/08/2026

Another major trade update for Scotch whisky.

India has agreed to cut its Scotch whisky import tariff from 150% to 40% over the next ten years, as part of a new UK-India free trade agreement that took effect on 15 July 2026.

That 150% figure has long been the reason Scotch was treated as a luxury reserved for India's wealthiest buyers, despite the country having 1.4 billion people and a fast-growing whisky-drinking culture. As the tariff comes down over the coming decade, expect Scotch to become more accessible, and demand to follow.

For cask holders, expanding demand in one of the world's largest untapped markets is exactly the kind of long-term tailwind worth watching.

05/08/2026

Sherry casks are one of the most misunderstood cask types in Scotch whisky.

Most people assume they once held real sherry, the kind you'd actually drink. They almost never did. What the whisky industry actually uses is a "sherry-seasoned cask," built specifically for this purpose.

The process happens in Jerez, Spain. Coopers build the cask, then sherry, made specifically to season the wood, is poured in and the cask is stored in a bodega before being shipped to Scotland to mature whisky.

This supply chain matters enough that major producers now own parts of it directly. The Macallan has invested in multiple cooperages and bodegas in Jerez over the past few years, including a 2024 partnership securing a stake in Tevasa, one of the region's leading cask makers, specifically to protect its long-term supply of quality sherry-seasoned oak.

04/08/2026

Big news for Scotch whisky this week.

As of 24 July 2026, the US has officially lifted tariffs on Scotch whisky imports. A 10% levy had been in place since April 2025, with a planned increase to 25% on single malts due to take effect this year. That increase has now been cancelled entirely.

The change follows King Charles III's state visit to the US in April, and comes as welcome relief for an industry that leans heavily on export markets. The US has long been one of Scotch whisky's largest buyers.

For anyone holding cask stock destined for bottling and export, tariff-free access to the US market is exactly the kind of shift worth paying attention to.

29/07/2026

A cat with a Guinness World Record? That's Towser. This legendary feline worked at Glenturret Distillery in Scotland and holds the record for most mice caught: 28,899 in her lifetime. (Yes, someone actually counted.)

For 24 years, from 1963 to 1987, Towser kept the distillery mouse-free. Some staff jokingly credited her legendary work ethic to a nightly "wee dram" added to her milk, though the distillery never confirmed it.

She's still honoured today with a statue at the distillery, and in 2017, Glenturret even released a limited whisky named in her memory.

Raise a dram to Towser, the most accomplished mouser of all time.

27/07/2026

Ballantine's was founded in 1827 by George Ballantine in Edinburgh, starting as a small grocery store before moving into whisky blending. It grew into one of the best-selling blended Scotch whiskies in the world, sold in over 200 countries.

What sets Ballantine's apart is its balance, built from blending malt and grain whiskies from many different distilleries rather than just one. Each distillery in the blend plays its own role in the final flavour structure. Some contribute sweetness, some depth, some smoothness.

One of the distilleries behind that success has long been Glentauchers, a name almost no one recognises, yet one that's supplied whisky for Ballantine's since the days of James Buchanan, and continues to do so today under its current owner, Chivas Brothers.

Today, you can actually own a piece of Glentauchers. Click the link below.
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