About usWHO WE ARE

In 2011 Whiskybase opened a specialized whisky shop both on and offline. The emphasis would be on Independent Bottlers and hard-to-find and rare whiskies.

At any given moment, one can find between over 1,100 unique whiskies in the Whiskybase shop located in Rotterdam and online at shop.whiskybase.com. And on some days, you can still find CJ in the shop helping customers learn about and locate some of the best whiskies of the world.

If you are ever in the Netherlands, they would welcome your visit.

Shortly after opening the Whiskybase shop and listening to members of the Whiskybase community, we realized there were not many independent bottlers with offerings in the Netherlands. But there was quite a lot of interest.

In 2011 we bought our first cask of whisky, this was a Strathmill from 1974, and bottled it under the label Archives.

The success of the first bottling prompted us to begin searching for even more casks that would help meet the growing demand for exceptional single-cask whiskies, bottled at cask strength.

Because Whiskybase is the largest online community of whisky lovers, the feedback and tasting notes have provided an invaluable feedback loop to the team and this feedback and insights continue to be integral parts of the selection process.

To date, over 220 different Archives bottlings have been released and the Archives brand is now exported to 8 countries worldwide.