So, data is (going to be) very important for Scotch Whisky Investments. A difficult part of the business is selling the whisky, so knowing which whiskies are being sold on which platforms for which prices is important.
That’s where the scraping comes in.
There are different platforms that deal with whisky prices and with whisky reviews. Both are important. Besides that, there are all the Scotch distilleries.
To get a bit of a grasp on everything that is out there, let’s divide the content up.
First, there are the 5 regions:
Scotch areas Link to heading
- Highland
- Speyside
- Island
- Lowland
- Islay
- Campbeltown
Within each of the regions, there are the distilleries, both the ones that still exist, as well as the ones that no onger exist, but from which there might be some rare whisky out there.
Knowing the prices of the whiskies as they are offered by the distilleries is useful. This means getting the addresses of the sites on which they sell their whisky and scraping them on a regular basis (weekly should be fine).
Getting images and descriptions is useful, as well as reviews.
In my opinion, it would be ideal to be able to search for whiskies in different ways:
- by brand/distillerie
- by age
- by year
- by region
- by owner
- by alcohol percentage
- by (estimated) price
So the task at hand is:
- find all places that sell single malt whisky
- build a scraper to get the information from that site
To get a head-start, we can start by scraping the “big sites”, whiskybase and whiskystats.
Other sites to consider:
- https://www.masterofmalt.com/
- https://www.thewhiskyexchange.com/
- https://www.tyndrumwhisky.com/
- https://whiskyauction.com/
- https://whisky.auction/
- https://whiskyauctioneer.com/
- https://drankdozijn.nl/
- https://www.scotchwhiskyauctions.com/
- https://www.winecalgary.com/
- https://www.wine-searcher.com/grape-1746-whisky-whiskey-malt
- https://hedonism.co.uk/spirits/scotch?items_per_page=100
- https://www.whiskykoning.nl/
- https://www.lovescotch.com/
- https://www.whiskyzone.de/
- https://www.catawiki.com/
Highland Link to heading
Speyside Link to heading
Island Link to heading
Lowland Link to heading
Active Ailsa Bay Annandale Auchentoshan Bladnoch Bonnington Distillery[17] Borders[18] Chain Pier Clydeside[19] Daftmill Eden Mill[20] The Glasgow Distillery[21] Glenkinchie Holyrood [22] Kingsbarns Lindores Abbey[23] In development Ardgowan Burnbrae [24] The Clutha [25] Falkirk [26] InchDairnie distillery, Glenrothes[27] Port of Leith [28] Rosebank
Closed or demolished Link to heading
- Inverleven [30]
- Littlemill[31]
- Bottlings of Littlemill are periodically released by the Loch Lomond Group, who took on ownership of the distillery shortly before its closure.[32] Lochrin [33] St. Magdalene