Any whisky experts on here? I don’t touch the stuff these days so it’s about time I shifted a few bottles. Any suggestions for the best way to sell these – Ebay? Or one of the specialist online auctions? Is there a whisky equivalent of STW?

Would anyone care to hazard a value for these (all unopened and in original packaging):

Signatory Vintage Benrinnes 1989
Connoisseur’s Choice Ardbeg 1978
Signatory Vintage Brora 1981
Balvenie Founder’s Reserve 10 year old

The Balvenie is virtually worthless but as I favour to you I will give you £15.99 for it.

Not sure if this chap would be able to help with a valuation

http://www.weedram.co.uk

Gary – TBH, I didn’t think the Balvenie was anything special until I Googled it so I’ll pass on your generous offer!

woody21, thanks, may give him a try. Most of it came from a whisky shop in Inverary (MiL used to periodically drive through that way and my default Xmas present was usually a bottle), probably another good place to ask.

Here is another place to try. Just search for what you have to see what other people are paying for it.
Whiskey Auction site

They may not be huge amounts but me be more than £15.99

http://www.scotchwhiskyauctions.com/store/product/45_the-17th-auction-ends-on-sunday-2nd-september-2012/6345_017098-balvenie-10-year-old-founders-reserve/

Don’t know where you are, there are specialist auctions held around the country, certainly twice a year at Morphets in Harrogate (late spring and before xmas), probably a lot more often in London and the South.

Is the Balevenie in the Cognac bottle or the later one ?

http://www.trscottishauctions.com/valuation_days/index.html

have a look on The Whisky Exchange

They have lots of rare bottlings so it should give you a good idea of what your are worth.

I think your Ardbeg bottling might be worth a few hundred

I’d recommend martin.green@bonhams.com, but then I did used to work there as a photographer. He literally wrote the book on the price of whisky at auction (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Collecting-Malt-Whisky-Price-Guide/dp/0955526604).

Last time I got a valuation on my Ardbeg 1974 CC — this was 2006 – the guys at Robert Hendry said “Ardbeg 1974, 21 year old Bottled 1995 Gordon & MacPhail Connoiseurs Choice £30 – £40” which I thought was a bit low TBH. Though chatting to a mate who also collects stuff, there was some reason that stuff – while lovely – wasn’t ‘collectable’ in the same way as other stuff.

Don’t know about the other stuff, sorry.

cranberry – no, not the Cognac bottle, the later one (looks the same as the one in the link in Drac’s post).

I’ll have a browse through the various suggestions to see if I can find matches for the ones I have. One of them (the Benrinnes I think) has a cask and bottle number so I can probably track down others from the same bottling for comparison.

Shame that, the old type founder’s reserve was what got me into drinking whisky, would have been rather interested in a bottle of it.