Smart Whisky Investing Made Simple - Even With Limited Funds

Investing in whisky can be accomplished in various ways. You can seek a rare bottle, put your money into a cask of whisky, or do both. We provide 4 tips for plunging into whisky investment seamlessly.

Investing large sums of money is not for everyone. The reason is simple: you should only invest money that you can afford to lose. And not everyone has a lot of spare money. Placing a bottle of Bowmore 40 Years worth almost 12000 euros on the shelf, therefore, is also not everyone's forte.

But investing doesn't need to start off with large amounts. Lower amounts, coupled with a little patience, can get you quite far. As long as you continue to invest responsibly and only with money you can actually afford to lose.

We provide some tips to get you started.

Our first tip is simple: scale with your investments. Level up.

When you think about investing in whisky, you might quickly think of high amounts AND rare whiskies that go with it. But it can be different.

Our first tip for investing with a small wallet, therefore, revolves purely around the amount. It's perfectly okay to invest in whisky bottles costing less than 1000 euros. In fact, there are plenty of limited whiskies available for less than 200 euros. In this way, you will naturally come across a bottle that you can buy at a profit and (with a healthy dose of patience) sell later for more.

With the proceeds, you can then buy a more expensive bottle, doing the same as with the first bottle. In this way, you scale with your investment.

Another way to seamlessly enter the world of investing in whisky is by investing in casks of whisky, which can already be something that is not officially whisky yet. You might consider investing in a cask of new make spirit (only after three years does whisky officially become whisky, before then it's new make).

This mode of investment requires less from your wallet than a cask of whisky that is already a few years old. There's a flip side to this way of investing, however: you need to have patience. Can you afford it?

Moreover, it takes several years before the whisky increases in value. From an age of about ten years old, whisky usually appreciates more quickly in value, depending on the specific whisky in the cask (whisky from one distillery fetches more than whisky from another).

The third tip is to liaise with a reliable partner who takes care of you and offers competitive prices. After all, you don't want to pay too much and if you need assistance, it should be readily available. Spiritfilled is such a company. At this company, you get personalized advice and you can buy casks that are very competitively priced.

They are second fill ex bourbon casks (of 200 liters) filled with spirit in November 2024. The price tag per cask translates between 3000 and 4000 euros. This includes 3 years' storage, personal care, and insurance.

The fourth tip for investing in whisky with a relatively small amount is to share. You can, in fact, buy a cask of whisky with others. This is called Cask Sharing, whereby you become the owner of a whisky cask along with others.

Consider buying a cask of whisky with friends or family. This way, the cost per person is much lower, and you have an investment in a whisky cask. Perhaps you bottle the whiskies when someone turns 18 years later? Anything is possible.