The warehouse wasn’t very helpful so we started to look on the internet for a whisky broker. We’ve been happily paying warehouse rental for 25 years and decided we needed to. I bought my husband a hogshead of Bowmore for his 30th birthday. I would not hesitate in recommending Mark to anyone attempting to sell their own collection. In no time at all Mark has already sold a much sought after vertical in my collection and I am delighted with the outcome.
His individual care and approach to everything he undertakes on your behalf in providing you with a service is nothing short of exemplary. From the outset Mark has always been professional, courteous and friendly, which has made my own experience of using Mark's services an absolute pleasure. This was quite astonishing given the lack of communication that I had received from others. I decided to contact Mark the following day and within hours he had come straight back to me and offered to work with me to sell my collection. That was until I discovered Mark Littler through an oline post that had been sent to me from a family member, which highlighted a high profile sale Mark had recently been engaged in. After many phone calls, emails and conversations, I was left feeling very frustrated and bewildered at their lack of communication in general and commitment to providing me with a service. During this time I had been in discussions with various very well known whisky retailers online, with a view to them purchasing the bottles from me or finding prospective buyers. Many thanks for your service Mark! read moreĭuring the last 12 months I have been actively making tentative enquiries to sell my whisky collection, which I had been collecting for more than 20. I would recommend Mark to anyone who is lucky enough to have whisky to sell. To top it off he achieved a fabulous price. As part of the service Mark facilitated the gauging, sampling and selling of the barrel and also coordinated for me to receive a few bottles of this amber nectar for my own consumption. He has kept me informed along the journey which has been an exciting one.
I have enjoyed our interactions and have felt from the start that Mark had my best interests at heart with his professional approach, transparency and personal touch. He immediately set me at ease and so I looked no further.
There appeared to be a lot of choice but Marks credentials and website information stood out from the crowd. The warehouse wasn’t very helpful so I started to look on the internet for a whisky broker. We’ve been happily paying warehouse rental for 25 years and decided we needed to look. My wife bought me a hogshead of Bowmore for my 30th birthday.
In 2020 we sold a 28 bottle vertical of Macallan 18 year old for £44,000. Many collectors choose to split their verticals of Macallan up into individual bottles or shorter collections but we have buyers who are looking for instant collections of these bottles and who will pay a premium for the opportunity. If you have accumulated a vertical of Macallan then this is something that we can help you sell as a collection. This natural ability to make verticals, combined with the fantastic back catalogue of very old vintages and very high age statements, has made Macallan whiskies some of the most collectable, and widely collected whiskies in the industry.
Whereas many distilleries have short, or intermittent runs of vinatage releases Macallan’s 25 and 18 year old series are both long running and consistent. The 12 year old was available exclusively for the Taiwan and Japanese markets and the 15 year old was released in 2017 exclusively available via ballot with an edition number suggested at just 1,500 bottles.Īs well as the fantastic brand marketing of Macallan and its parent company Edrington, it is our belief that it is the way Macallan lends itself to accumulating large sequential runs of vintages – or verticals – across numerous series is part of what has inspired collectors to be so vigilant in acquiring these bottles. The 18 year old version was discontinued after 2002 but there are more recent 12 year old and 15 year old Gran Reserva also available. They should be presented with their original hinged wooden box to command the highest prices and thanks to the allure of the ‘sherrybomb’ usually go for more than the 18 year old counterparts. The Gran Reserva was a showcase of the highly sherried whiskies that the distillery is renowned for – something you can definitely see in the deep colour of the Gran Reserva series. It actually ran in parallel with the regular 18 year old and was bottled at 40% rather than the 43% Macallan usually prefers for their releases. The Gran Reserva 18 year old series ran from 1997 to 2002, with the first bottle in the series being a 1979 vintage.