Bowmore Whisky Market Stats

This is an overview of The Bowmore distillery performance. This is one of a series of posts providing insights into different distilleries’ market performance. Our line of work includes handling large quantities of data, and we thought that sharing some of this might help other whisky enthusiasts to better understand the whisky market drift. This article is updated on the monthly basis, so it could be useful to bookmark it for later use. We will present a dataset of 29116 auction lots from The Bowmore distillery. The Bowmore distillery is widely known and well appreciated by most whisky enthusiasts. The famous Bowmore Black series are constant headliners when they make their way to auction. You can find The Bowmore brief history summary here. Bowmore is responsible for 4.48% of total lots sold on auctions and is commonly seen as a must-have item in peated collections.   Macro performance indicators of Bowmore and Auctions market in general   Number of Bowmore lots vs. All lots sold on auctions by year: Bowmore lots revenues vs. All lots revenues sold on auctions by year: Bowmore lots percentage and Bowmore revenues percentage of total lots sold on auctions by year: Average price of Bowmore lot sold vs. average price of all lots sold on auctions by year:

10 Most popular Bowmore whiskies to meet on auctions

Method: for this section I took only whiskies that were actually sold, meaning that I didn’t count lots that were put on the auction and didn’t have wining bid due to reserved price not met etc. In practice, this list might look different, given that there are certain percentage of lots that was never sold.

Now let’s see the best-performing Bowmore lots on auctions. The winners are chosen by simply looking for the best annual percentage yield (APY) for whiskies that have been in auctions for at least 2 years. Meaning that all the releases made in the last 2 years will not make it to this section.

10 Best performing Bowmore whiskies to meet on auctions