A whisky auction in progress with rare bottles on display.

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Auctions, provenance, the Cask Index. Reported, never hyped.

Whisky bottles from a past European Whisky Auctions sale.

A whisky auction in progress, rare bottles on display before the rostrum.

Collecting

The 2026 Auction Year in Whisky

Karuizawa casks at £4.25 million, a record charity sale, and a Sotheby's series that proved Japanese whisky still commands the room. What twelve months of saleroom results actually show.

25 September 2026 · 4 min read