latest hammer price
Auction lots
15
Houses
1
Last sold
44 days ago
Balblair 1989 2nd Release is a collectable Scotch whisky from Balblair, bottled in 1989. Based on 15 recorded auction lots across 14 months of trading data, the current median hammer price is £120, with the most recent sale at £110. Over the trading window, prices have ranged from £70 (low) to £250 (high). Accounting for lot-to-lot variation, a realistic valuation range for Balblair 1989 2nd Release is £82–£138 (±26% around the latest sale).
Year-on-year, Balblair 1989 2nd Release is up 46.7%, with a 6-month trend of -56% (down). wsky1 aggregates hammer prices from major public Scotch whisky auctions including Scotch Whisky Auctions, Whisky Auctioneer, and Bonhams. All prices are in GBP and exclude buyer's premium (typically 24–28% additional at major houses). Past auction performance is not a guarantee of future value.
Balblair is a whisky distillery. Balblair 1989 2nd Release is a no-age-statement bottling, released in 1989.
Named / limited release
Released as Balblair 1989 2nd Release, a named edition rather than part of the standard core range.
These are scarcity and demand signals drawn from the bottle's own attributes — they describe the bottle, not a prediction of future price. Not investment advice.
Latest sale
£110
24-month median
£120
24-month high
£250
24-month low
£70
Estimated value · likely range
£82–£138 ±26%
Auction hammers swing lot to lot with condition, fill level and timing. Treat this band — not a single figure — as the bottle's value.
Rare at auctiononly a handful of lots a year
Seen at auction
2 lots
Cadence
≈ every 183 days
Houses
1
Activity rank
top 36% of tracked bottles
Last seen
44 days ago
Across the auction houses wsky1 tracks.
| Month | Median | Lots |
|---|---|---|
| September 2026 | £110 | 1 |
| May 2026 | £170 | 1 |
| January 2025 | £170 | 1 |
| May 2023 | £120 | 1 |
| February 2022 | £140 | 1 |
| July 2021 | £160 | 1 |
| June 2020 | £250 | 1 |
| November 2019 | £120 | 1 |
| July 2019 | £160 | 1 |
| June 2019 | £95 | 1 |
| January 2019 | £75 | 1 |
| November 2018 | £120 | 1 |
Balblair 1989 2nd Release appeared in 2 auction lots over the last 12 months across the auction houses wsky1 tracks — rare at auction (only a handful of lots a year). That puts it in the top 36% by auction activity among the 35,289 bottles wsky1 tracks — most collectable bottles hammer only a handful of times a year.
The latest hammer price for Balblair 1989 2nd Release at auction is £110. Across the most recent 24 months of auction data, the median hammer price is £120, with a high of £250 and a low of £70. All prices are in GBP and exclude buyer's premium. Data is aggregated from major auction houses including Scotch Whisky Auctions, Whisky Auctioneer, and Bonhams.
Balblair 1989 2nd Release is up 46.7% year-on-year based on monthly median hammer prices. Over the past 6 months it has moved down 56%. Past auction performance is not a guarantee of future value.
Balblair 1989 2nd Release regularly appears at major Scotch whisky auction houses including Scotch Whisky Auctions (Scotland), Whisky Auctioneer (Scotland), Just Whisky, Whisky Hammer, and Bonhams. The current median hammer price is £120 (excluding buyer's premium). At most major houses, buyer's premium adds 24–28% on top of hammer for the buyer; sellers typically receive the hammer price minus a sales commission of 5–15%.
Over the past 12 months Balblair 1989 2nd Release has moved up 46.7%, with a current median hammer price of £120. The bottle has been observed at auction across 15 recorded lots in our database. wsky1 provides hammer-price data for informational purposes only — not investment advice. Whisky is an illiquid alternative asset; secondary-market value depends heavily on bottle condition, fill level, label integrity, and timing.
wsky1 ingests public auction results from major auction houses (via direct scraping of Scotch Whisky Auctions, Whisky Auctioneer, Bonhams, and Whisky Hammer, plus aggregated data from WhiskyHunter). For each bottle, we group hammer prices by year-month and compute the median price per month. The figures shown — latest £110, 24-month median £120 — are derived from this monthly-median methodology. All prices are hammer prices in GBP, excluding buyer's premium.
No. All prices on wsky1 are hammer prices only. Buyer's premium at major Scotch whisky auction houses currently runs at 24–28% on top of the hammer price. A bottle of Balblair 1989 2nd Release that hammers at £110 would cost the buyer approximately £139 all-in including buyer's premium.
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