Provenance
Where this comes from
Most whisky sites will not tell you where a number came from. This one will. Every figure here traces to a source named below, with its licence. Nothing on this site was taken from behind a paywall or an anti-bot challenge — where a source declined automated access, we left it alone rather than working around it.
CC0 — public domain
Distillery identity: founding year, ownership, coordinates, photography, Wikipedia links.
Not required, but given anyway.
Visiting information: opening hours, addresses, telephone numbers, tourism tags.
Required. Every distillery page carrying OSM data credits it.
Public API
The secondary market: monthly high, low and mean winning bids, trading volume and lot counts, plus published auction-house fee structures.
Given on every chart drawn from it.
Free with attribution
Tasting notes — nose, palate and finish — with individual scores from named tasters.
Required as a condition of use. Linked from every review.
Public product feed
Retail catalogue — bottling names, prices, images, and the structured distillery, bottler, age and strength tags that anchor the whole join.
Given here and linked from every bottling.
Public product feed
Retail catalogue — names, prices, images, bottle sizes.
Given here and linked from every bottling.
Public product feed
Retail catalogue, strongest on independent bottlers and single casks.
Given here and linked from every bottling.
Public lot listings
Realised hammer prices from closed lots — the only figures on this site describing what someone actually paid rather than what a shop is asking.
Given here and on every valuation.
What that adds up to
- 352
- distilleries in the register
- 26,533
- distillery-months of auction data
- 526
- tasting notes
- 27
- with published visiting hours
- 274
- with coordinates
- 132
- with a market record
- 27
- countries
- 1746
- oldest founding date held
What we do not have
Auction coverage beyond one house
Realised prices come from a single auction house over roughly two years. Common bottlings are well covered; rare and older ones frequently are not, and those are exactly the ones people most want valued.
A complete catalogue
We hold tens of thousands of bottlings from three retailers. Hundreds of thousands exist, most of them discontinued. The largest catalogue belongs to Whiskybase, who licence it to partners and forbid scraping — so we are building our own rather than taking theirs.
Current auction data
The distillery-level market series end in August 2024 and are labelled with that date wherever they appear. Realised bottle prices run to 2026. Do not read the two as the same vintage of data.
Auction houses tracked
31 houses · fees as published
Buyer, seller and VAT figures are percentages; reserve and listing fees are fixed amounts in each house’s own base currency. Source: Whisky Hunter.