latest hammer price
Auction lots
4
Houses
1
Last sold
173 days ago
Balblair - 1989 (3rd Release) Bottled 2012 is a collectable Scotch whisky from Balblair, bottled in 2012. Based on 4 recorded auction lots across 4 months of trading data, the current median hammer price is £118, with the most recent sale at £95. Over the trading window, prices have ranged from £95 (low) to £200 (high). Accounting for lot-to-lot variation, a realistic valuation range for Balblair - 1989 (3rd Release) Bottled 2012 is £71–£119 (±26% around the latest sale).
Balblair is a whisky distillery. Balblair - 1989 (3rd Release) Bottled 2012 is a no-age-statement bottling, distilled in 1989, released in 2012.
Single vintage
Distilled in a single year (1989), so the available batch is inherently finite.
Named / limited release
Released as 3rd, 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
£95
24-month median
£118
24-month high
£200
24-month low
£95
Estimated value · likely range
£71–£119 ±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
3 lots
Cadence
≈ every 122 days
Houses
1
Activity rank
top 28% of tracked bottles
Last seen
173 days ago
Across the auction houses wsky1 tracks.
| Month | Median | Lots |
|---|---|---|
| March 2026 | £95 | 1 |
| December 2025 | £95 | 1 |
| October 2025 | £140 | 1 |
| July 2022 | £200 | 1 |
Balblair - 1989 (3rd Release) Bottled 2012 appeared in 3 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 28% by auction activity among the 29,926 bottles wsky1 tracks — most collectable bottles hammer only a handful of times a year.
The latest hammer price for Balblair - 1989 (3rd Release) Bottled 2012 at auction is £95. Across the most recent 24 months of auction data, the median hammer price is £118, with a high of £200 and a low of £95. 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.
wsky1 currently has fewer than 12 months of auction data for Balblair - 1989 (3rd Release) Bottled 2012, so a year-on-year trend is not yet computed. Recent hammer prices range from £95 to £200 (median £118).
Balblair - 1989 (3rd Release) Bottled 2012 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 £118 (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%.
Balblair - 1989 (3rd Release) Bottled 2012 has appeared in 4 recorded auction lots in our database, with a current median hammer price of £118. wsky1 provides hammer-price data for informational purposes only — not investment advice.
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 £95, 24-month median £118 — 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 (3rd Release) Bottled 2012 that hammers at £95 would cost the buyer approximately £120 all-in including buyer's premium.
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