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 "data_from": "2011-05",
 "data_through": "2026-10",
 "rules_version": "2026-11-02.1",
 "method": "docs/research/auction-data-audit.md",
 "methodology_url": "/data/whisky-auction-data/",
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    "sold"
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    "cask",
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    "bid counts"
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   "first_sale": "2014-01",
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    "2015-03",
    "2020-04"
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    "no_bids": 5857,
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    "sold"
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    "cask",
    "live",
    "no_bids",
    "other",
    "unsold_reserve"
   ],
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   "undated_sold_lots": 15105,
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    "cask type"
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  {
   "code": "WH",
   "name": "Whisky Hammer",
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   "source_rows_total": "235916",
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   "first_sale": "2017-04",
   "last_sale": "2026-09",
   "missing_months": [
    "2026-10"
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    "cask": 298,
    "sold": 235618
   },
   "included_statuses": [
    "sold"
   ],
   "excluded_statuses": [
    "cask"
   ],
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   "undated_sold_lots": 0,
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    "cask type",
    "bid counts",
    "bottler field",
    "unsold lots"
   ]
  }
 ],
 "house_list": "Scotch Whisky Auctions, Whisky Auctioneer and Whisky Hammer",
 "coverage": [
  {
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   "complete": false,
   "months_with_sales": {
    "SWA": 7,
    "WA": 0,
    "WH": 0
   },
   "notes": [
    "Scotch Whisky Auctions has sales in 7 of 12 months",
    "Whisky Auctioneer has sales in 0 of 12 months",
    "Whisky Hammer has sales in 0 of 12 months"
   ]
  },
  {
   "year": 2012,
   "complete": false,
   "months_with_sales": {
    "SWA": 11,
    "WA": 0,
    "WH": 0
   },
   "notes": [
    "Scotch Whisky Auctions has sales in 11 of 12 months",
    "Whisky Auctioneer has sales in 0 of 12 months",
    "Whisky Hammer has sales in 0 of 12 months"
   ]
  },
  {
   "year": 2013,
   "complete": false,
   "months_with_sales": {
    "SWA": 12,
    "WA": 0,
    "WH": 0
   },
   "notes": [
    "Whisky Auctioneer has sales in 0 of 12 months",
    "Whisky Hammer has sales in 0 of 12 months"
   ]
  },
  {
   "year": 2014,
   "complete": false,
   "months_with_sales": {
    "SWA": 12,
    "WA": 11,
    "WH": 0
   },
   "notes": [
    "Whisky Auctioneer has sales in 11 of 12 months",
    "Whisky Hammer has sales in 0 of 12 months"
   ]
  },
  {
   "year": 2015,
   "complete": false,
   "months_with_sales": {
    "SWA": 12,
    "WA": 11,
    "WH": 0
   },
   "notes": [
    "Whisky Auctioneer has sales in 11 of 12 months",
    "Whisky Hammer has sales in 0 of 12 months"
   ]
  },
  {
   "year": 2016,
   "complete": false,
   "months_with_sales": {
    "SWA": 12,
    "WA": 12,
    "WH": 0
   },
   "notes": [
    "Whisky Hammer has sales in 0 of 12 months"
   ]
  },
  {
   "year": 2017,
   "complete": false,
   "months_with_sales": {
    "SWA": 12,
    "WA": 12,
    "WH": 9
   },
   "notes": [
    "Whisky Hammer has sales in 9 of 12 months"
   ]
  },
  {
   "year": 2018,
   "complete": true,
   "months_with_sales": {
    "SWA": 12,
    "WA": 12,
    "WH": 12
   },
   "notes": []
  },
  {
   "year": 2019,
   "complete": true,
   "months_with_sales": {
    "SWA": 12,
    "WA": 12,
    "WH": 12
   },
   "notes": []
  },
  {
   "year": 2020,
   "complete": false,
   "months_with_sales": {
    "SWA": 10,
    "WA": 11,
    "WH": 12
   },
   "notes": [
    "Scotch Whisky Auctions has sales in 10 of 12 months",
    "Whisky Auctioneer has sales in 11 of 12 months"
   ]
  },
  {
   "year": 2021,
   "complete": true,
   "months_with_sales": {
    "SWA": 12,
    "WA": 12,
    "WH": 12
   },
   "notes": []
  },
  {
   "year": 2022,
   "complete": true,
   "months_with_sales": {
    "SWA": 12,
    "WA": 12,
    "WH": 12
   },
   "notes": []
  },
  {
   "year": 2023,
   "complete": true,
   "months_with_sales": {
    "SWA": 12,
    "WA": 12,
    "WH": 12
   },
   "notes": []
  },
  {
   "year": 2024,
   "complete": true,
   "months_with_sales": {
    "SWA": 12,
    "WA": 12,
    "WH": 12
   },
   "notes": []
  },
  {
   "year": 2025,
   "complete": true,
   "months_with_sales": {
    "SWA": 12,
    "WA": 12,
    "WH": 12
   },
   "notes": []
  },
  {
   "year": 2026,
   "complete": false,
   "months_with_sales": {
    "SWA": 10,
    "WA": 10,
    "WH": 9
   },
   "notes": [
    "part year"
   ]
  }
 ],
 "partial_years": [
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 ],
 "incomplete_years": [
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  2012,
  2013,
  2014,
  2015,
  2016,
  2017,
  2020,
  2026
 ],
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  "buyers_premium_included": false,
  "vat_on_commission_included": false,
  "delivery_included": false,
  "note": "Hammer prices exclude the buyer's commission, VAT on it and delivery. A multi-bottle lot is one lot at its hammer price.",
  "vat_note": "Whisky Hammer says its hammer price includes 20% VAT when a VAT-registered business sells the lot, and its results do not say which lots those are."
 },
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  "strict": "Official bottlings, one bottle of whisky per lot, grouped into bottlings by name, age and edition; a bottling counts at one house when it has at least 5 sold lots there in both years. The change is the median of the per-bottling changes in median hammer price. Rows with fewer than 3 bottlings carry no change. Only rows marked headline may be quoted alone.",
  "exploratory": "Every sold lot whose title matches the brand, any bottler, size or age. Exploratory: the mix of bottles changes from year to year, so no headline. Cells under 30 lots have no median or mean."
 },
 "compare": {
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  "to_year": 2025,
  "part_year": 2026,
  "part_year_months": "January to October",
  "peak_volume_year": 2022,
  "strict_min_lots": 5,
  "min_rank_lots": 2000,
  "min_cell_lots": 30
 },
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  "sold_lots": 1846804,
  "gross_hammer_gbp": 585668064.77,
  "median_gbp": 110.0,
  "mean_gbp": 317.13,
  "excluded": {
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    "price_gbp": 4577420.0
   },
   "live": {
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    "price_gbp": 0.0
   },
   "no_bids": {
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    "price_gbp": 0.0
   },
   "no_price": {
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    "price_gbp": 0.0
   },
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   },
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    "price_gbp": 66169456.03
   }
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 },
 "files": [
  {
   "table": "volume",
   "path": "/data/auction-release-volume.csv",
   "title": "Sold lots and hammer totals by year and house",
   "rows": 64,
   "sha256": "cd905e4c2485a1a3f3b9d54239526ae021ab59519ad0ae688e508f28d7fc7b3f",
   "eligibility": "Sold lots only (the manifest lists which lot statuses count). Undated Whisky Auctioneer themed sales are left out of the yearly rows. A combined row is complete only when every house had sales in all 12 months; it is still a count of these houses, not of the whole market.",
   "columns": [
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     "name": "year",
     "description": "Calendar year of sale"
    },
    {
     "name": "house",
     "description": "House code, or all"
    },
    {
     "name": "house_name",
     "description": "House"
    },
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     "name": "sold_lots",
     "description": "Sold lots"
    },
    {
     "name": "gross_hammer_gbp",
     "description": "Sum of hammer prices, pounds"
    },
    {
     "name": "mean_gbp",
     "description": "Mean hammer price"
    },
    {
     "name": "median_gbp",
     "description": "Median hammer price"
    },
    {
     "name": "months_with_sales",
     "description": "Months of the year with at least one sale at the house"
    },
    {
     "name": "coverage_complete",
     "description": "yes when the year is covered in full"
    },
    {
     "name": "coverage_note",
     "description": "Why a year is incomplete"
    },
    {
     "name": "release_id",
     "description": "Release this row belongs to"
    },
    {
     "name": "data_through",
     "description": "Last month with sales in the release (YYYY-MM)"
    }
   ]
  },
  {
   "table": "benchmarks",
   "path": "/data/auction-release-benchmarks.csv",
   "title": "Benchmark brands, strict cohort: the same bottlings in both years",
   "rows": 40,
   "sha256": "577e191fe5f9e14fdb7e69df383ee33cdfdb74a70a3c8d17b4de70712936128c",
   "eligibility": "Official bottlings, one bottle of whisky per lot, grouped into bottlings by name, age and edition; a bottling counts at one house when it has at least 5 sold lots there in both years. The change is the median of the per-bottling changes in median hammer price. Rows with fewer than 3 bottlings carry no change. Only rows marked headline may be quoted alone.",
   "columns": [
    {
     "name": "brand",
     "description": "Brand key"
    },
    {
     "name": "name",
     "description": "Brand"
    },
    {
     "name": "house",
     "description": "House code, or all"
    },
    {
     "name": "house_name",
     "description": "House"
    },
    {
     "name": "cohort",
     "description": "strict"
    },
    {
     "name": "from_year",
     "description": "Earlier year"
    },
    {
     "name": "to_year",
     "description": "Later year"
    },
    {
     "name": "to_year_complete",
     "description": "no when the later year is a part year"
    },
    {
     "name": "bottlings",
     "description": "Bottlings compared"
    },
    {
     "name": "lots_from",
     "description": "Sold lots of those bottlings, earlier year"
    },
    {
     "name": "lots_to",
     "description": "Sold lots of those bottlings, later year"
    },
    {
     "name": "median_from_gbp",
     "description": "Median hammer of those lots, earlier year"
    },
    {
     "name": "median_to_gbp",
     "description": "Median hammer of those lots, later year"
    },
    {
     "name": "mean_from_gbp",
     "description": "Mean hammer, earlier year"
    },
    {
     "name": "mean_to_gbp",
     "description": "Mean hammer, later year"
    },
    {
     "name": "median_bottling_change_pct",
     "description": "Median of the per-bottling changes, percent"
    },
    {
     "name": "bottlings_lower_pct",
     "description": "Share of bottlings whose median was lower in the later year"
    },
    {
     "name": "headline",
     "description": "yes when the row may carry a public headline"
    },
    {
     "name": "release_id",
     "description": "Release this row belongs to"
    },
    {
     "name": "data_through",
     "description": "Last month with sales in the release (YYYY-MM)"
    }
   ]
  },
  {
   "table": "brand-series",
   "path": "/data/auction-release-brand-series.csv",
   "title": "Benchmark brands, exploratory: every lot matched to the brand",
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   "eligibility": "Every sold lot whose title matches the brand, any bottler, size or age. Exploratory: the mix of bottles changes from year to year, so no headline. Cells under 30 lots have no median or mean.",
   "columns": [
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     "description": "Brand key"
    },
    {
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     "description": "Brand"
    },
    {
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     "description": "Calendar year"
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    {
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     "description": "House code, or all"
    },
    {
     "name": "cohort",
     "description": "exploratory"
    },
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     "name": "sold_lots",
     "description": "Sold lots"
    },
    {
     "name": "median_gbp",
     "description": "Median hammer price"
    },
    {
     "name": "mean_gbp",
     "description": "Mean hammer price"
    },
    {
     "name": "coverage_complete",
     "description": "yes when the year is covered in full at every house"
    },
    {
     "name": "headline",
     "description": "Always no"
    },
    {
     "name": "release_id",
     "description": "Release this row belongs to"
    },
    {
     "name": "data_through",
     "description": "Last month with sales in the release (YYYY-MM)"
    }
   ]
  },
  {
   "table": "distilleries",
   "path": "/data/auction-release-distilleries.csv",
   "title": "Distilleries: sold lots, official and independent bottlings",
   "rows": 178,
   "sha256": "d5da1e2290b15ec364a8fa38036c080d1f81dff22d54f05c1715ad49c672491c",
   "eligibility": "Sold lots matched to a distillery with a page on this site. Medians and means need 30 lots. The independent share is a lower bound: lots with no bottler named count as official by default, and the share counted that way is given. Ranked by independent share: operating malt distilleries (not grain or American whiskey distilleries) with at least 2,000 sold lots.",
   "columns": [
    {
     "name": "slug",
     "description": "Distillery page slug"
    },
    {
     "name": "name",
     "description": "Distillery"
    },
    {
     "name": "status",
     "description": "Active or Closed"
    },
    {
     "name": "country",
     "description": "Country"
    },
    {
     "name": "kind",
     "description": "malt, grain, or american (a US distillery making bourbon, Tennessee or rye whiskey)"
    },
    {
     "name": "sold_lots",
     "description": "Sold lots"
    },
    {
     "name": "first_sale",
     "description": "First month with a sale"
    },
    {
     "name": "last_sale",
     "description": "Last month with a sale"
    },
    {
     "name": "lots_<house>",
     "description": "Sold lots at each house"
    },
    {
     "name": "median_gbp",
     "description": "Median hammer price"
    },
    {
     "name": "mean_gbp",
     "description": "Mean hammer price"
    },
    {
     "name": "ob_lots",
     "description": "Official bottlings, lots"
    },
    {
     "name": "ob_median_gbp",
     "description": "Official, median"
    },
    {
     "name": "ob_mean_gbp",
     "description": "Official, mean"
    },
    {
     "name": "ib_lots",
     "description": "Independent bottlings, lots"
    },
    {
     "name": "ib_median_gbp",
     "description": "Independent, median"
    },
    {
     "name": "ib_mean_gbp",
     "description": "Independent, mean"
    },
    {
     "name": "ib_share_pct",
     "description": "Independent share (lower bound)"
    },
    {
     "name": "ob_named_pct",
     "description": "Official with the distillery or owner named as bottler"
    },
    {
     "name": "ob_by_default_pct",
     "description": "Official only because no bottler was named (uncertain)"
    },
    {
     "name": "ib_rank_eligible",
     "description": "yes when ranked"
    },
    {
     "name": "ib_rank",
     "description": "Rank by independent share"
    },
    {
     "name": "release_id",
     "description": "Release this row belongs to"
    },
    {
     "name": "data_through",
     "description": "Last month with sales in the release (YYYY-MM)"
    }
   ]
  },
  {
   "table": "bottlers",
   "path": "/data/auction-release-bottlers.csv",
   "title": "Leading independent bottlers per distillery",
   "rows": 751,
   "sha256": "37677bb841de6828ccd16a7e000164216410daf6fb0a1901d7ba1947b05c8b68",
   "eligibility": "Independent bottlings only; the different spellings of one bottler's name are joined through our reviewed list of spellings, and bottler-field values that name no bottler (numbers, dates, a market, an edition or an event) are left out. Top 5 per distillery by sold lots; a median needs 30 lots.",
   "columns": [
    {
     "name": "distillery",
     "description": "Distillery page slug"
    },
    {
     "name": "rank",
     "description": "Rank by lots"
    },
    {
     "name": "bottler",
     "description": "Bottler"
    },
    {
     "name": "bottler_slug",
     "description": "Bottler page slug on this site, when there is one"
    },
    {
     "name": "lots",
     "description": "Sold lots"
    },
    {
     "name": "median_gbp",
     "description": "Median hammer price"
    },
    {
     "name": "release_id",
     "description": "Release this row belongs to"
    },
    {
     "name": "data_through",
     "description": "Last month with sales in the release (YYYY-MM)"
    }
   ]
  },
  {
   "table": "cask-families",
   "path": "/data/auction-release-cask-families.csv",
   "title": "Cask families (Scotch Whisky Auctions only)",
   "rows": 5,
   "sha256": "2f50e4d0781d82f0db58ef12985644a3dd2d455f5560b5e05d080aedfce25687",
   "eligibility": "Sold Scotch Whisky Auctions lots with a recorded cask type, grouped into families (sherry, bourbon, sherry and bourbon, unspecified refill or hogshead, other). The other houses record no cask type.",
   "columns": [
    {
     "name": "family",
     "description": "Cask family"
    },
    {
     "name": "house",
     "description": "SWA"
    },
    {
     "name": "sold_lots",
     "description": "Sold lots"
    },
    {
     "name": "median_gbp",
     "description": "Median hammer price"
    },
    {
     "name": "mean_gbp",
     "description": "Mean hammer price"
    },
    {
     "name": "release_id",
     "description": "Release this row belongs to"
    },
    {
     "name": "data_through",
     "description": "Last month with sales in the release (YYYY-MM)"
    }
   ]
  },
  {
   "table": "lost-distilleries",
   "path": "/data/auction-release-lost-distilleries.csv",
   "title": "Closed distilleries: past sales at auction",
   "rows": 33,
   "sha256": "997f989d9840832aa75170a26121a0ad9334206063182474ef57fd2259720f2f",
   "eligibility": "Sold lots matched to a distillery in our lost-distillery records. A record of past sales, not of current availability. Medians and means need 30 lots; the recent count covers the 24 months to the last month in the release.",
   "columns": [
    {
     "name": "slug",
     "description": "Lost-distillery record"
    },
    {
     "name": "term",
     "description": "Distillery page slug, when there is one"
    },
    {
     "name": "name",
     "description": "Distillery"
    },
    {
     "name": "country",
     "description": "Country"
    },
    {
     "name": "closed_year",
     "description": "Year closed"
    },
    {
     "name": "revived",
     "description": "Year revived, if any"
    },
    {
     "name": "sold_lots",
     "description": "Sold lots"
    },
    {
     "name": "first_sale",
     "description": "First month with a sale"
    },
    {
     "name": "last_sale",
     "description": "Last month with a sale"
    },
    {
     "name": "lots_last_24_months",
     "description": "Sold lots in the 24 months to data_through"
    },
    {
     "name": "median_gbp",
     "description": "Median hammer price"
    },
    {
     "name": "mean_gbp",
     "description": "Mean hammer price"
    },
    {
     "name": "ib_share_pct",
     "description": "Independent share (lower bound)"
    },
    {
     "name": "release_id",
     "description": "Release this row belongs to"
    },
    {
     "name": "data_through",
     "description": "Last month with sales in the release (YYYY-MM)"
    }
   ]
  }
 ],
 "reuse": "Free to download and cite with a link to the methodology page. The reuse licence is awaiting confirmation, so please ask before republishing the tables in bulk. The tables hold aggregates only: no lot records, lot titles from a single sale or buyer information.",
 "corrections": "To report an error, use the contact page (/contact/) with the subject line Correction, giving the release id, the table and the row. Confirmed corrections are published in a new release; the release id and checksums identify the previous one.",
 "citation": "Uisge Beatha, secondary-market auction release sm-568611a1ea (sold lots at Scotch Whisky Auctions, Whisky Auctioneer and Whisky Hammer, May 2011 to October 2026), https://uisgebeatha.co.uk/data/whisky-auction-data/",
 "validation": {
  "audit": "docs/research/auction-data-audit.md",
  "houses": [
   "SWA",
   "WA"
  ],
  "figures_checked": 239,
  "differences": [],
  "whole_casks_added_back": 18,
  "sections": [
   "5.1",
   "5.2",
   "5.3",
   "5.4"
  ]
 }
}