How To Store Whisky: The Ultimate Guide To Storing Your Whisky Collection 

Hey - glad you like the video! Yes - they are great. For bottles going into storage long term they are great. If you use an 84 litre Realy Useful Box you can get about 20 or so bottles in too.

@@MarkLittler Nice!! What humidity do you use for your stored bottles?

@@MarkLittler hi from singapore! do you mind linking the bovida bags for humidity as well as 84 litre realy useful box?

Thanks Jeff - glad you liked the video! Parafilm is a life saver for so many bottles.

Thanks Vin - glad you liked the video :)

Hi Jack - glad you liked it - we have a good line up for the next few weeks too!

Hey David - I hope you're well. That sounds like good storage to me - there are just things I would say. Firstly check the humidity isn't too high - you can get cheap hygrometers on Amazon - you don't want it above 60% really. Secondly, stop throwing the packaging away 😲😲🤣🤣

Thanks! Good to see you back on the videos again too 🙃 Do you want the Macallan Edition 6 to review? It's going round a number of people and you're more than welcome to receive it, pour yourself a dram and review 🥃

@@MarkLittler thank you Mark, squeezing in a little time in the week to get back on track with uploads. Sure it'd be greatly appreciated.

We've parafilmed over tax strips in the past without issue. Often they are glued quite well so the parafilm causes no issues really. Sounds like you might have some nice bottles :)

I think the humidity has a big impact on this - I've not seen many examples of it in the UK.

I think there are so many variables such as humidty etc to be certain. I know more people in high humidity countries tend to suffer more with this than in colder, dryer climates.

No idea on that sorry! You could contact Bemis (the maker) and ask then.

Hi Neil, glad you liked the video! That's a great question - parafilm helps prevent evaporation which can certainly occur in the short term as well as the long term. Whilst it may not be as imperative as with the long term storage of a collection, why should you miss out on more of that whisky to drink?!

@@MarkLittler that is a great point, thank you.

Well you could. But why not use Parafilm which costs pence per bottle and is safe, easy and quick 😉

You absolutely can - but it might make a mess of the whisky 😂

Hi Barry - thanks for your comment. Sure - I would say given the super low cost of parafilm I would always opt for that. I know clingfilm is cheaper still - but we are looking at a tiny price to pay to safeguard your bottles :) However, if it aint broke, don't fix it!

@@MarkLittler Thanks Mark for replying.And the only reason I use clingfilm at the moment is that nobody is really getting to see my bottles so I don't have to impress anyone or explain to anyone as to why I'm using it.But yeah IL buy some Parafilm soon and start using it.👍

Sorry about that. It's back in stock now and you should be able to order 👍

@@MarkLittler cheers

With 'proper' parafilm so cheap I would just stick to the standard one.

Hi James - thanks for your message. That's strange - I wonder if the problems you have faced are to do with problems with the corks causing a poor bottle seal and thus more alcohol vapor problems. I say this as we have both a 2011 Royal Marriage and a Folio 4 that have been under Parafilm for a long time - over a year - and both are fine. You always get some issues with corks and given that you have over 900 bottles some are bound not to be perfect. Has it happened with any other bottles or just these Macallan? If it was just the Macallan then it would add weight that it was a cork problem I would say. Wax capsules can be problematic and even more so if they are stored in warmer climates. I've found that some bottles such as the Ardbeg Provenance (which has a very hard wax capsule) can go under Parafilm no problem. Softer waxes - such as the Bowmore Bicentenary (!?!?!?!) - should not go under Parafilm really. Glad you like the video too :)

@@MarkLittler I have few Macallan 10 yo cask strength, nearly all of them suffer from the parafilm, I knew that because one day I searched online for the answer if parafilm could be a risk for whisky bottles but very few websites cover this but one of the Taiwanese website forum some people did have the issues so I checked mine and found the problems. Royal marriage/s capsule didn't suffer the colour change but parafilm did leave residue and cannot be removed easily after say over 2 years so I have to remove them. Regarding to the wax, I strongly suggest not using it because both of them are WAX so make no difference when talking about the sealing but you do have risk they stick together, I have couple of Glendronach Kingsman and I didn't if I should put parafilm on them so I did some reserach online too, the answer is don't take the risk. Thank you for your reply and take it seriously. Although I know the issue might be relative to the corks problems but you never know which bottles have problems do you? The folio 4 is only few years ago and I really cannot believe it has the issue too, I used to trust parafilm but it's not worth the risk I mentioned. Macallan, especially the old style capsules are the worst, like I said, I have few 10yo cask strength and all of them have problems so did the folio 4, for the new Macallan capsule, the risk is for the laser seal, parafilm sometimes will stick tightly to the laser seal and when remove it, some laser seal will come out with the parafilm. Like I said in previous comment, springbanks seem ok, Ardbeg, some of the capsules have shiny bit will stick with parafilm when remove, I cannot tell all 900 bottles but after put all of them under parafilm and now remove them all is a very hard work.

@@James-ro8yb Can I ask your opinion on just plain old cling film!? I actually use that on some miniatures and it seems to be ok.It takes a while though because I have to cut it all to size,and then I put at least two layers on,but up until now it seems fine and I've had it on for about two years.

@@barryhamilton7845Some people said the cling film would be just as good as Parafilm some even using them to wrap the whole bottle. IMO if you are going to keep them more than 10 years, it worth putting something on however if for sale or drink less than 10 years, the original seals will be just fine, thank you and good day.

do you think i can use parafilm on my macallan edition 1-6 & sir peter blake? thanks in advance

Hi Yolo - you certainly can - however, given the very low cost of Parafilm it makes sense to just use the correct product.

@@MarkLittler lol ok hhh

​@@MarkLittler with all respect, I would disagree here :) Parafilm costs £10 for 15 bottles on your webpage, which works out to £0.66 a bottle. A 30 metre roll of cling film food wrap would cost between £5 and £10. So while Parafilm's cost is "low", the cost per bottle with the cling wrapping will be incomparably low. Haven't tried tho, maybe it's not convenient.