Investment reports
Reports from our Trading Company in Irland regarding the Whisky market and our investments in particular.
30 January, 2021
Despite all the turbulence across the world and across traditional markets, the RW101 Apex 1,000, the benchmark index for rare whisky, grew by a steady 6.7%. This may not be the heady heights of bygone years, but, in the context of 2020, this performance gives further endorsement for rare whisky...
30 October, 2020
RW101 has just released its Q3 report, which “demonstrates rare-and-collectible Scotch Whisky’s resilience as an investment and it’s negative correlation to traditional markets”. They also commented that “Demand.... appears to be accelerating”.
15 July, 2020
Firstly, we hope that our readers and their families remain safe and well during these difficult times. Covid continues to dominate the news, but there seems to be light at the end of the tunnel with the news that vaccine development is progressing well. We cross our fingers that this will arrive sooner rather than later.
15 April, 2020
Understandably, things have been quiet on the trading side during Q1, with focus on fund raising and then, towards the end of the quarter, dealing with the Covid crisis. We are also forging ahead with the development of our e commerce platform. Despite the unprecedented times, we did manage to get our hands on a few bottles from our local and friendly supplier at Irish Distillers in Q1.
15 January, 2020
According to IWSR, exports of Single Malts grew by 18.8% in the first half of 2019, continuing a trend that has now been ongoing for a number of years, where the popularity of single malt Scotch is growing faster than other types of whisky. The value of exports of single malts was £652m in the first six months of the year, which means that single malt whisky now represents 30% of total Scotch...
30 July, 2019
This time of year marks the publication of annual and half-year reports from some of the whisky industry’s leading players, and we are very encouraged by what we see. From the Edrington and Diageo yearly reports, we can see that consumers are continuing to trade up and opt for malt whisky over blends, in increasing numbers. Diageo’s malt whisky revenues grew by 12% in year 2018/19...