The Uncomplicated Version
Cask Care in Scotland: Your whisky cask matures safely in a bonded warehouse. It may serve as an investment, gift, or personal treasure.
Warehouse Importance: Location ensures long-term well-being. Services, responsiveness, and hospitality enhance the owner experience.
Visiting Appeal: Cask owners often crave hands-on visits like drawing samples. These prove irresistible and personal.
Still Spirit Spotlight: This top warehouse offers optimal storage, security, and red-carpet hospitality for owners.
Spirited's Standards: Selective partnerships like Still Spirit deliver excellence in both security and client experience.
Your cask of whisky is quietly maturing in a purpose-built, bonded warehouse in Scotland. This warehouse is in charge of keeping your cask healthy and safe on your behalf. Your cask, to you, might be a financial investment, a gift for a loved one, a sentimental treasure, or a vessel containing bottles you will ultimately drink, trade, or sell. Whatever the case may be, your cask is important.
Since cask storage is a long-term arrangement, where your cask is stored is vital to its overall well-being. Perhaps just as importantly, what the warehouse offers in services, responsiveness, and hospitality plays a huge role in your experience as a cask owner.
Over the years, it is likely that you, like many cask owners before you, will feel a calling to visit your cask. You might even want to be hands-on like a warehouse manager. You might open it yourself and draw your own sample. If this thought does not appeal to you now, we strongly encourage you to go into a warehouse and just try to resist the temptation. It is an intimate and hugely personal experience that is unlike almost any other.
Not every cask warehouse is able to provide a second-to-none experience. Its physical layout, staffing, or internal policies and regulations simply may not be able to accommodate guests.
This article casts a spotlight on our friends at Still Spirit, a warehouse and an outstanding team of operators that make owning a whisky cask an amazing experience for you, the cask’s owner.
Owners of casks at Still Spirit not only have the peace of mind that their cask is stored in optimal conditions in a beautiful facility. With a bit of forward planning, cask owners also enjoy the warehouse equivalent of a “roll out the red carpet” experience.
The Spirited team visited Still Spirit in 2024, and we were hands-on with many casks under our management, from opening several casks, to drawing samples ourselves, to even watching a professional regauge.
