Highland Cask Group holds and manages maturing spirit for a bottling group with its main office in Hong Kong and a team in Vietnam. Register your interest and we will contact you with the next steps.
A cask becomes valuable when the spirit is bottled and sold. Highland Cask Group is part of a group that bottles and sells whisky, with its main office in Hong Kong and a team on the ground in Vietnam. Stock is held to be bottled. That is the reason we hold it.
You own the cask. A Delivery Order can be issued if you want it to stand in your name at the warehouse.
Casks sit in third-party bonded warehouses with excise duty suspended. Storage and insurance are paid by us, as set out in your agreement.
Regauges, insurance, transfers of ownership and the paperwork that goes with them. Existing owners see their holdings in the members area.
Pre-booked visits can be arranged with advance notice.
We may buy your cask back, with no profit charge. We do not guarantee a price, a buyer or a timescale.
Owners can ask about bottling from their own cask. We set out what it involves and what it costs before you decide.
Each step is documented, and you receive the agreement and the full charges in writing before you commit to anything.
Tell us you are interested. We contact you with the next steps.
We send the agreement, the full charges and the cask details in writing.
The cask is purchased and registered in your name in a bonded warehouse.
We manage the records and the administration. You decide whether to hold, sell or bottle.
These are the charges that apply on a sale. The full position is confirmed in writing before you sign.
| Sale in year 1 | Early sale charge of 18% of the price paid |
| Sale in year 2 | 12% of the price paid |
| Sale in year 3 | 6% of the price paid |
| After year 3 | No early sale charge |
| Sale to another owner or a third party | 10% of any profit, plus third-party costs of sale |
| Sale back to us | No profit charge |
The value of a cask can go down as well as up. The whole of the capital put in can be lost, and a cask can turn out to be worth less than it cost or to have no buyer at all.
Cask ownership in the UK is not regulated. There is no FCA protection, no FSCS cover and no recourse to the Financial Ombudsman.
Spirit in cask loses volume and strength each year to evaporation, and a cask can fall below the strength at which it can legally be called whisky. A cask cannot be sold as quickly as a listed investment.
This page is information about the company. It is not an offer to sell a cask and it is not investment advice. Nothing here is directed at anyone under 18.
You can also register your interest in the form at the top of this page, or contact us directly.