Auction calendar
We run one auction a month, every month, and the rhythm barely changes: bottles come in, the catalogue goes live, bidding runs for a week and a half, and then a single evening closes the whole thing lot by lot.
That regularity is the point. A seller knows which auction a bottle will land in before it leaves the house, and a buyer who misses one knows the next is never more than a few weeks away. This page is the schedule, and the four dates on it that actually change what you do.
An auction every month
Twelve closing evenings a year
Bidding runs for days
Not for a single afternoon
One deadline for sellers
Bottles in before the catalogue closes
Themed auctions in between
Announced on this page first
The shape of an auction
Nothing about our month is improvised. Each auction moves through the same four stages in the same order, and knowing which stage we are in tells you exactly what you can still do — and what has already closed behind you.
Sellers send bottles in, drop them at a depot or hand them over on a collection route. Everything that comes through the door is unpacked, checked, photographed and written up by the people who will later pack it for the buyer.
The bottle deadline in the table below is the last day for that. Miss it and the bottle is not lost — it simply rolls into the following auction, which is a wait of weeks rather than months.
On the start date every lot in the auction appears at once. There is no drip feed and no early access: the whole catalogue is published in one go, and from that moment the first bid can be placed on any lot in it.
This is the day to set an alert, work through the photographs and ask us anything the lot page has not already answered.
For a week and a half the auction is simply open. Bids come in from all over Europe at every hour of the day, and the price on a lot only ever moves upwards.
This is also the useful part of the month for questions. Ask on a quiet Tuesday and somebody can walk to the shelf and look at the bottle for you. Ask an hour before closing and you are in a queue.
The auction does not stop at a fixed minute. Lots close in waves through the evening, and any bid in the final minutes pushes the whole auction back rather than just that one lot.
It is the busiest evening of our month and the most enjoyable one. You do not have to be at a screen for it, though — a maximum set days earlier does exactly the same work.
The schedule
Every auction we have scheduled is in the table below, with the three dates that matter attached to it. It comes straight out of our own planning, so what you see here is what our own team is working towards.
We publish a few auctions ahead rather than a whole year at once, because the closing evening of a December auction is not a date anybody should be pencilling in this side of summer. Dates further out get added as they are fixed.
| Auction | Bottle deadline | Catalogue live | Closing evening |
|---|---|---|---|
| September 2026 | Fri 11 Sep 2026 | Fri 18 Sep 2026 | Sun 27 Sep 2026 |
| October 2026 | Fri 9 Oct 2026 | Fri 16 Oct 2026 | Sun 25 Oct 2026 |
| November 2026 | Fri 6 Nov 2026 | Fri 13 Nov 2026 | Sun 22 Nov 2026 |
All times on this site are Amsterdam time. Dates can move — a themed auction, a holiday or a full inbound week will occasionally shift a deadline by a day or two — so check back before you plan around one.
Reading the table
Most of the calendar is only your problem for one of these four columns. A seller lives by the first, a buyer by the third, and everybody can safely ignore the rest.
The last day a bottle can reach us and still make that auction. It is not the day you have to decide — it is the day the bottle has to be on our table, checked, photographed and written up, which takes us a little time of its own.
Send something in the week before and it will comfortably make the catalogue. Send it the day before and it may well not, through no fault of yours: a parcel that spends an extra day in a depot somewhere has missed the deadline just as surely as one posted late.
The day the whole auction is published and the first bid can be placed. Every lot appears at the same moment, so there is no advantage in being at a screen when it happens.
For a buyer this is the start of the useful stretch: the ten days or so in which you can study the photographs properly, read the condition notes, ask us anything and work out what a lot is actually worth to you.
The evening the auction closes. Lots start closing in the early evening and the last of them go long after most people have stopped watching, because every late bid extends the auction rather than ending it.
The date in the table is when closing begins. It is deliberately not a promise of when it ends — that depends entirely on how hard the room is bidding.
Invoices go out after the auction closes and bottles start moving once they are paid. If you want a run of lots to travel together, or you would rather leave them with us for a while, that is decided here rather than at the moment of bidding.
Won bottles can also stay with us free of charge for ten weeks, which covers at least two more auctions — long enough to add to a shipment rather than pay for two.
The last evening
The one thing about our calendar that catches people out is that a closing evening has a start but no printed finish. Lots begin closing in the early evening, in the order they sit in the catalogue, and from then on the auction is governed by whether anybody is still bidding.
Every bid placed in the closing window extends the whole auction, not just the lot it was placed on. That is deliberate: it means nobody can win a bottle by being the last to click, and it gives the person who was outbid ten seconds ago a fair chance to answer.
The practical consequence is that a busy evening runs late and a quiet one does not. If you want a bottle, the reliable way to get it is a maximum set in the calm part of that week and a half — not an evening spent refreshing a page.
All times are Amsterdam time, and they hold in winter and in summer alike — the clock on the lot page is the one that counts, wherever you happen to be reading it.
Before you plan around it
Anything the table has not answered, ask us. We would rather tell you a date than have you find out you have missed one.
Twelve as a rule — one a month, all year round, including through the summer. On top of that we occasionally run a themed auction built around a single distillery, a style or a collection, and those are announced on this page as soon as they are fixed.
Around ten days between the catalogue going live and the closing evening — typically live on a Friday and closing on a Sunday the week after. The exact span varies a little from month to month, which is why the two dates are in the table rather than described as a rule.
Nothing dramatic. The bottle waits with us and goes into the next auction instead, which is a matter of weeks. Nothing is charged for the wait and you do not have to do anything — although if you were aiming at a particular themed auction, tell us, because that changes which one we hold it for.
Because a bid in the final minutes extends the auction. A busy evening runs late and a quiet one finishes early, so any printed finish would be a guess. What is fixed is that extensions stop at two in the morning: that is the outer limit.
No, and most of our regular buyers are not. Leave a maximum on the lots you want and the system bids on your behalf, one step at a time, up to the figure you set. Being at a screen does not buy you anything the extension rule has not already given you.
Occasionally, yes. A holiday, a themed auction or an unusually heavy week of incoming bottles can move a deadline by a day or two. When that happens the table here is updated first, so it is always the version to trust.
Invoicing follows the closing evening and shipping follows payment. If you would rather not ship straight away, won bottles can stay with us free of charge for ten weeks — long enough to cover at least two more auctions and combine everything into one parcel.
Amsterdam time, in winter and in summer. If you are bidding from outside central Europe, work from the countdown on the lot page rather than from your own clock.
Have a look at what is live now, or get your bottles to us before the next deadline and let them go under the hammer with everything else.
