We always encourage face to face meetings. Our portfolio managers are happy to visit you in person or you are welcome to visit us at our head office. We can also facilitate e-meetings via Zoom or Google teams

All new cask and premium matured cask are already stored in an HMRC bonded facility or at the distillery and fully insured for 5 years. These documents will be sent to you after purchase.

While the whisky remains in the cask there is no duty or tax to be paid. If and when you decide to sell your physical portfolio no Capital Gains Tax is payable as the whiskey is classed as a wasting chattel, and therefore under UK law is not liable, and any and all profits are free from Capital Gains Tax. Should you wish to have your purchase bottled before selling, then the whiskey would be liable to VAT.

The whisky is stored in wooden casks on site at the individual distilleries we are partnered with or in a bonded warehouse.

Cask whisky evaporates at just under 2% per annum, which is known as the Angels’ share. Evaporation is part of the maturation process. Wholesale whisky is traded as litres of pure alcohol(LPA) on an original fillings basis(OFB). In combination they refer to the amount of spirit that went into the barrel at the outset (filling). When you come to sell your whisky, it doesn’t matter how much has evaporated, you sell LPA on the OFB. It is up to the buyer to make an approximate calculation of how much actual spirit will be in the cask by anticipating the total quality shared out between “the Angels”.

Rigorous quality controls are done before your whisky is filled into the cask. Once it is in the cask it is rare for it to spoil and any spirit quality issues are almost certainly due to a defective cask which can be isolated before blending or bottling. World of Whisky customers are protected from any quality issues by our standard commercial agreement with suppliers

Yes. We can arrange bottling, labelling and packing to your specifications. This process will have separate fees but please bear in mind that duty and VAT are payable before your bottles leave a bonded warehouse.

We provide a unique cask number for all stock purchased through us and we will provide all of the necessary ownership documentation. Casks cannot be forged or faked so they provide a secure means of investing in whisky.

When you instruct us to sell you out, we will typically go through one of six routes: • Sell to another client via our intra-client brokering service • Trade the cask on the open market to a cask broker or collector • Purchase the cask back ourselves • Sell the cask through our own auction service • Sell the cask through a third-party auction house • Bottle the stock for you and release it to the retail market achieving maximum profit

Some of the key factors that affect the price of a whisky are the reputation of the distillery and its brand value. Each whisky cask is unique and possesses many variables such as age, cask type, finish, strength, and volume. We have pioneered a unique methodology in order to determine their value.

Until recently, cask whisky was difficult to purchase therefore unlike equities and bonds it’s not a ‘crowded trade’. Buying tangible assets gives you more financial security as products can’t go bust like organisations can. It makes buying a cask of whisky a much more attractive option

Financial modelling is not possible across the wider whisky market and must be carried out on individual casks due to each being unique; however, statistics on whisky investment from recent years indicate returns that average between 8-12% per annum.

We see very limited downsides to investing in casks of whisky. The main risk is that whisky falls out of fashion and there is suddenly less demand. Although past performance is no guarantee of future performance, we simply cannot see this happening. With more and more developing nations rising through the ranks, we feel that there will be an even greater demand in the future than we see today. Whisky exports have seen year-on-year growth every year for over 30 years now. Furthermore, due to Scotch making up 21% of all UK food and drink exports, the industry receives a lot of government support in the form of trade deals and legislative backing. This careful management lessens the risk.

Casks can be described as ‘first fill’ or ‘refill’. A cask that is being used to mature Scotch for the first time is referred to as ‘first fill’. It becomes a ‘refill’ cask when used for a second or subsequent time

A cask is the wooden container that whisky is stored in while it matures and it plays a critical role in developing flavours. Casks can come in all different sizes and wood types, but the most common type used for whisky is a 200L barrel that was originally used to mature American Bourbon. Whisky is also regularly matured in other types of casks including sherry, wine and tequila, all of which bring their own flavours to the spirit.

Single malt Scotch is the elite of Scottish whiskeys. The “single” in the name refers to the fact it comes from a single distillery and is made from 100% malted barley. As long as all the liquid comes from the same distillery, this is a single malt. The number on the label refers to the youngest whiskey in the blend, even if the liquid in the bottle comes from a few hundred different barrels. As a general rule of thumb, single malt whiskey is generally aged for 10 years or more but can be aged anything from 12-21 years. In general, the older it is, the better it gets.

Blended whiskies are the mixture of single malt whiskeys from different distilleries. The choice of using liquids from various places is down to the Master Blender and is an incredibly difficult task. The Master Distiller will create the blend using different types of whiskeys from single grain Scotch to rye whiskey in order to create the unique taste identity that will define the drink. They work in meticulous detail ensuring that proportions are just right and that each blend is not only phenomenal but consistent in quality and brand identity.

Malt is the premium traditional style of whisky, but the artisanal manner of its production is not easily scaled. Grain whisky is made continuously via a modern column still on an industrial scale. The output is purer alcohol, but with less flavour and character than a malt. The most important fact about whisky is that the fate is that most single grain whisky is to be blended with one or more malts to produce a much better tasting derivative type called blended whisky.

Bourbon whiskey is an American whiskey that is made from 51 percent corn mash. It tends to have a much sweeter taste compared to Scotch or Irish whiskeys. Think smooth notes of vanilla and caramel, enhanced by the oak cask ageing. Because Irish whiskey is aged in pre-used bourbon casks, American bourbon drinkers very often find themselves enamoured with their Irish cousin from over the pond.

World of Wisky Group is regulated under English law. Its regulatory status is markedly different from the financial services industry. You are not buying something which under English law is defined by the Financial Services and Markets Act. As an investment, you are instead buying a tangible product which - through the construct of bailment - you will own outright as your physical property. This sort of purchase, and the custody of your property is regulated by a number of laws which are generally more intuitively and widely understood than is financial Services regulation. The relevant legislation includes the Sale Of Goods Act 1994, Fraud Act 2006, the Theft Act 1968, and the Money Laundering and Transfer of Funds (Information)(Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations (2019) etc. These apply broadly to non financial British Businesses and have proven effective instruments for fair regulation for the purchase and sale of goods. We also plan to apply for our own WOWGR license which will allow us to purchase and store bulk casks for clients along with suppling our own whisky brand.

We won’t....but your whisky is safe from our potential insolvency. You own the casks, not us. Our partner distilleries store them securely. A liquidator cannot claim your cask as an asset of the business. Through the World of Whisky Group, your whisky is held in safe keeping. This means you make no transfer of assets as part of the creditors, and your whisky is not become owned by World of Whisky Group. You are not a creditor, you are the whisky’s owner. Consequently, the liquidator cannot consider your whiskey as the property of the compnay. This is the advantage of being the owner of whisky and not a creditor of a business. You cannot lose your stock through insolvency, only through its physical theft or destruction and these risks are insured. As the owner of the cask you can choose any company to help sell your cask or sell it back to the original distillery.