Everything you own, and how long it has left.
The cellar is the only screen in Maturing that shows you numbers about your own cask. It shows volume, strength, years remaining and this year’s note. It does not show a value, because we do not produce one.
Your cellar.
A deliberately dull screen. No valuation, no chart, no percentage up or down.
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Three casks in bond. The number in the meter is years elapsed against years contracted, not money, and it never will be money.
The barrel regauges in 2031. The butt is not due until 2038.
How it fills
- A cask filledOne entry
- An annual sample drawnA note
- A bottling day attendedTwo places
- A cask gifted to youThe whole entry moves
What it buys
- A 200ml sample, duty paidOne a year
- Two places at bottling dayIncluded
- A split delivery, four addressesNo charge
- A year of duty-paid storage after bottlingNo charge
This is a demonstration build. The balance, the casks and the dates above are illustrative and nothing here is spendable, tradeable or real.
The cask ledger.
Every cask you have ever held here, in bond and out of it, with the regauge figure where there is one.
In bond
#0114 The Barrel Refill ex-bourbon Out 2031 #0231 The Quarter First-fill American oak Out 2029 #0388 The Oloroso Butt Ex-oloroso European oak Out 2038Bottled
#0042 The Octave Refill American oak Out 2025Cask #0042 regauged one bottle short of its expected outturn, which is inside the range and therefore not a shortfall. It is recorded anyway, because the alternative is only recording the good ones.
What the cellar shows you, and what it refuses to.
Shown
- Cask number and wood
- From the fill day
- Fill date and filling strength
- 63.5% ABV, always
- Last measured volume and strength
- From the warehousekeeper, not modelled
- Years elapsed and years remaining
- Against the contracted window
- This year’s tasting note
- And every previous one
- The bottling day it is booked onto
- If it has one yet
Not shown, deliberately
- A valuation
- We do not produce one
- A price history
- There are no prices, because there is no market
- A percentage up or down
- There is nothing for it to be a percentage of
- An offer to buy it back
- There is no buy-back at any price
- A comparison against other casks
- Which would be a performance table
Every item in the right-hand column is something a cask platform would normally show you, and every one of them is a step towards being the thing this must not be.
What you can do from here.
Read this year’s note
Written after the annual sample, sent whether or not it flatters us.
Order your sample
One 200ml draw a year, duty paid, sent to you.
Book a bottling day
Two places, included, on any scheduled day.
Take it out early
Any time after three years. Duty and VAT fall due on the day it leaves.
Leave it in longer
No charge, no paperwork, no anniversary deadline.
Gift it
Once, to one named person over eighteen, for nothing.
A note a year
Including the dull years.
A sample a year
Two hundred millilitres, duty paid.
No valuation
Not produced, not endorsed, not coming.
No deadline
Leave it in bond as long as you like.
Not an investment
Maturing is a fixed-price forward purchase of a numbered cask of spirit, delivered to you as bottles. There is no cash return, no profit share, no buy-back, no valuation and no secondary market. It is the same structure as Plotting and it is held to the same line. Plotting is a fixed-price forward purchase of produce, delivered in kind. It is not an investment, there is no cash return, no profit share, and no secondary market. We are emphatic about this because the alternative — paying people a cash share of a harvest they had no hand in managing — is an unauthorised collective investment scheme under section 235 of the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000, and a criminal offence.
Everything else people ask.
Thirteen questions, answered without a support ticket.
