Cask Trade unveils personalised whisky bottling service – Scotch Whisky News
CASK TRADE BOTTLING UNVEILS PERSONALISED BOTTLING SERVICES WITH GIFTING OPPORTUNITY FOR CHRISTMAS
Cask Trade has long supported cask bottlings for private clients and independent bottlers. However, with increasing demand for partial cask bottlings and smaller runs, Cask Trade Bottling has introduced a new ‘ready to bottle’ bespoke service, allowing clients to commission their own label for bottle runs starting from 30 bottles per order, without having to buy a full cask. To celebrate the new service, Cask Trade Bottling have launched a festive campaign which will deliver bespoke bottles of Speyside 2015 to clients, ready for gifting in December.
A Gift Worth Raising a Glass To
The new service invites clients to personalise a premium single malt Scotch whisky with either their own artwork or a considered written message – an opportunity to transform a fine bottle into a genuinely personal statement for loved ones and close friends, or into a distinctive branded gift for clients, colleagues and business partners. Each bottling draws from a single, identifiable cask: an 11-year-old single malt from a Speyside distillery, matured in a bourbon barrel, bottled at 46% ABV in a 700ml bottle, with tasting notes of honey, apple, floral honeysuckle, citrus, vanilla and toffee.
Founder and CEO of Cask Trade, Simon Aron, says: “Whisky has always been about more than the liquid in the glass – it’s about provenance, occasion and story. Whether it’s a private client marking a family celebration or a business wanting to put its own brand on a premium gift for its best clients, this service lets them create something no one else will ever own: a bottle carrying their own artwork or words, tied to a single cask.”
Two Ways to Personalise
Customers can choose between two personalisation options:
– Personalised Artwork: Customers can bring their creative vision to life by supplying their own branding or artwork to be printed on the top front section of the label.
– Personalised Message: Customers write their own greeting to be printed on Cask Trade’s pre-designed festive label template.
Perfect For Client Gifting and Corporate Branding
The Personalised Artwork option is equally suited to businesses seeking a distinctive, branded gift for the festive season. Companies can apply their own logo, corporate artwork or campaign design to the label, turning a single-cask Scotch whisky into a memorable and prestigious gift for clients, partners and colleagues – a more considered alternative to conventional corporate hampers.
The Personalised Message option offers a simpler route for businesses that wish to print a seasonal greeting from the company on Cask Trade’s festive template, ready to send across a wider client or staff list.
How It Works
The ordering process follows five simple steps:
1. Select an option – choose between personalised artwork or a personalised message.
2. Send personalisation – submit the chosen artwork or written message to the Cask Trade Bottling team.
3. Confirm – sign off and lock in the final label design.
4. Receive – bottles are delivered ahead of the festive period.
5. Enjoy and gift – bottles are ready to give to clients, colleagues, friends or family.
Orders can be placed by emailing bottling@casktrade.com or calling +44 (0)20 3746 3030. For more information, visit the website.
Acquiring a Bottling
Bottles are priced at £50 each, or £300 per case of six, plus VAT, inclusive of delivery and standard label printing. As each release is drawn from a single cask, orders are supplied in full cases of six bottles only, with a minimum commission of 30 bottles (five cases) – a scale well suited both to private clients building a family collection and to businesses stocking a client gifting or corporate entertaining programme for the season.
Orders must be placed before September 25th to ensure delivery by December 4th 2026.
Beyond the Festive Season
While the service launches with a festive theme, Cask Trade Bottling has confirmed that the core commissioning service is not confined to Christmas. Ready to bottle whisky is now permanently available on the Cask Trade stocklist, allowing clients to select their preferred liquid and create a bespoke bottling without having to buy a full cask or wait decades for liquid maturation. This allows personalised bottling for any occasion beyond festive celebrations, such as significant birthdays, weddings, anniversaries and births, as well as for corporate occasions including product launches, staff recognition, client appreciation events and anniversaries of the business itself. The Cask Trade Bottling team supports at every stage from liquid selection, through to design support and final product delivery.
ABOUT CASK TRADE
Cask Trade was set up by Simon Aron in 2018, born from his personal experiences of buying casks as a passionate whisky collector for more than 20 years.
Having found cask ownership difficult to navigate with few reputable companies operating, he envisioned creating a marketplace that made buying and selling casks transparent, open, and honest.
Cask Trade has grown from strength to strength, building its success on several core values:
• Stockists, not brokers – Cask Trade own all its stock, giving buyers a 100% transactional guarantee and the peace of mind that all casks have been through stringent quality checks.
• Market-leading stock list – since 2018, Cask Trade has represented over 170 distilleries across the world of whisky, rum, Cognac and Armagnac.
• End-to-end support – Cask Trade nurtures client relationships beyond the point of sale and offers full cask management, sampling, re-gauging, and multiple exit options when customers come to sell their cask.
• Trust and transparency – The company’s casks are held in the best HMRC bonded warehouses, regularly visited and approved by Cask Trade whisky masters. All stock holdings have a complete paper trail.
• Expert team – above all, the Cask Trade team are passionate about cask ownership and strive to help clients achieve their goals, whether they are looking to buy, sell or bottle their casks.
Alongside cask sale and ownership, Cask Trade offers other unique services which elevate client experience and cask exit when the time is right:
Cask Trade Warehouse
In 2025, Cask Trade opened its own bonded warehouse. The unit is situated in Speyside, Scotland, and has the capacity for up to 25,000 casks. Clients can now book onto open days to visit the warehouse, see where their cask is stored, and sample directly from their cask or taste an indicative sample in the custom-built tasting room.
Auction Your Cask
Auction Your Cask is the world’s first dedicated online cask auction site. With four auctions a year, clients as well as the public can either submit a cask to sell or bid on other casks with 0% seller fees and an agreed reserve.
Recognition
Acknowledgement for the achievements of Cask Trade has been recognised by the FT1000 when the business was ranked as one of the fastest-growing companies in Europe; listed in The Sunday Times Hundred fastest-growing private companies in Britain and named among the UK’s most innovative new businesses’ by StartUps 100 Index. CEO and Founder Simon Aron and Director Colin Hampden-White have also been listed again in the Spear’s 500 Top Recommended Whisky Advisors 2025.
