# Whisky Auction Market AI Agent Connect

> The whisky collectibles market as an MCP: real auction data for 160 distilleries (Macallan, Ardbeg, Yamazaki) — monthly bid min/mean/max, trading volumes, price spikes and global market overview. Keyless.

## Overview
- **Category:** data-analytics
- **Price:** Free
- **Endpoint:** https://edge.vinkius.com/vk_preview_DYbWZDDLaTRSaBR3ARma3c14men31J1f2ksNvauz/ai-agent-connect
- **Tags:** whisky, scotch, collectibles, auction-prices, alternative-investment, market-data

## Description

**Whisky as an asset class, finally queryable** — real auction market data aggregated from the world's whisky auction houses, as a single MCP server.

### What you can do
- **160 distilleries tracked** — Macallan, Ardbeg, Springbank, Yamazaki, Nikka, Buffalo Trace: 119 Scottish, 15 American, 13 Japanese, 5 Irish
- **Monthly price history** — winning bids min/mean/max, trading volume and lot counts per distillery, month by month (Aberfeldy alone: 222 months of data)
- **Price-spike hunting** — the biggest month-over-month jumps and drops in any distillery's history: investment signals, not vibes
- **Side-by-side comparisons** — "Macallan vs Ardbeg vs Yamazaki: which appreciates faster?" answered with all-time averages and latest month
- **Macro view** — the global market: total volume and lots across every auction house, month by month; plus where rare bottles actually trade (house rankings)

### Why it matters
Rare whisky quietly became one of the strongest collectible assets of the last decade — the Knight Frank Luxury Investment Index repeatedly ranked it top-3. But its market data lives scattered across auction houses. This MCP consolidates it for analysis.

### Who is this for?
Collectors and investors, distillery analysts, financial-content creators, sommeliers, and AI agents that need real market numbers instead of "it depends".

## Tools

### get_distillery_price_history
Use slugs from list_distilleries (e.g. "macallan", "ardbeg", "yamazaki").

Get the full auction price history of one distillery (monthly bids, volume, lots)

### list_distilleries
Filter by country or name part. 119 Scottish, 15 American, 13 Japanese, 5 Irish.

List all 160 whisky distilleries tracked by auction data (Scotland, Japan, US...)

### compare_distilleries
Slugs from list_distilleries.

Compare auction performance of up to 6 distilleries side by side (latest month + all-time averages)

### get_market_overview
2157+ auction-month rows.

Get the globalThis whisky auction market overview (all auctions aggregated per month)

### get_auction_houses
auction, Bonhams, JustWhisky...) with months recorded, mean bid and total volume — useful to know where rare bottles actually trade.

List every whisky auction house tracked, with activity stats

### find_price_spikes
Find the biggest price spikes and drops in a distillery's auction history

## Prompt Examples

**Prompt:** 
```
How has Macallan traded at auction recently?
```

**Response:** 
```
🥃 **Macallan auction history**

Months recorded: 200+ (2010 → 2024)
Latest month: winning bids from 45 GBP min to 5,800 GBP max, mean 612 GBP
Trend: post-2022 correction cooling speculative lots, but older vintages still climbing.

Want the spike analysis — the months when Macallan jumped hardest?
```

**Prompt:** 
```
Macallan vs Ardbeg vs Yamazaki — which is the better investment?
```

**Response:** 
```
📈 **Distillery comparison (all-time auction data)**

- **Macallan**: highest mean bid, biggest total volume — the blue-chip
- **Ardbeg**: strong volume, more accessible lots — liquidity play
- **Yamazaki**: fewer lots but explosive spikes — the Japanese collectible premium

Verdict: Macallan for stability, Yamazaki for volatility with upside. Want the spike history for each?
```

**Prompt:** 
```
When did Japanese whisky prices spike the most?
```

**Response:** 
```
🔺 **Japanese whisky price spikes (Yamazaki/Nikka/Hakushu)**

Biggest jumps: 2015-2017 — the Suntory discontinuation era. Yamazaki 12 saw +40-80% month-over-month moves as age-statement bottles vanished from shelves.

Run find_price_spikes on yamazaki or nikka for the exact months. I can also pull the global market volume to see how the correction played out.
```

## Frequently Asked Questions

**Do I need an API key or registration?**
No. The WhiskyHunter API is fully public — distillery catalog, price histories and auction statistics all work without authentication.

**Where does the data come from?**
WhiskyHunter aggregates real results from multiple whisky auction houses (Scotch Whisky Auctions, Whisky.auction, Bonhams and others). All prices are in GBP as recorded at auction, monthly-aggregated per distillery.