latest hammer price
Auction lots
55
Houses
1
Last sold
82 days ago
Balblair 2000 2nd Release is a collectable Scotch whisky from Balblair, bottled in 2000. Based on 55 recorded auction lots across 38 months of trading data, the current median hammer price is £86, with the most recent sale at £95. Over the trading window, prices have ranged from £50 (low) to £150 (high). Accounting for lot-to-lot variation, a realistic valuation range for Balblair 2000 2nd Release is £70–£120 (±26% around the latest sale).
Year-on-year, Balblair 2000 2nd Release is down 13.6%, with a 6-month trend of -20.8% (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 2000 2nd Release is a no-age-statement bottling, released in 2000.
Named / limited release
Released as Balblair 2000 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
£95
24-month median
£86
24-month high
£150
24-month low
£50
Estimated value · likely range
£70–£120 ±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.
Hardly ever seenalmost never comes to market
Seen at auction
1 lot
Houses
1
Activity rank
top 98% of tracked bottles
Last seen
82 days ago
Across the auction houses wsky1 tracks.
| Month | Median | Lots |
|---|---|---|
| June 2026 | £95 | 1 |
| August 2025 | £60 | 1 |
| March 2024 | £65 | 2 |
| December 2023 | £150 | 1 |
| September 2023 | £110 | 1 |
| April 2023 | £100 | 1 |
| March 2023 | £120 | 1 |
| January 2023 | £88 | 2 |
| December 2022 | £50 | 1 |
| November 2022 | £63 | 2 |
| July 2022 | £75 | 1 |
| May 2022 | £85 | 1 |
Balblair 2000 2nd Release appeared in 1 auction lot over the last 12 months across the auction houses wsky1 tracks — hardly ever seen (almost never comes to market). That puts it in the top 98% 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 2000 2nd Release at auction is £95. Across the most recent 24 months of auction data, the median hammer price is £86, with a high of £150 and a low of £50. 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 2000 2nd Release is down 13.6% year-on-year based on monthly median hammer prices. Over the past 6 months it has moved down 20.8%. Past auction performance is not a guarantee of future value.
Balblair 2000 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 £86 (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 2000 2nd Release has moved down 13.6%, with a current median hammer price of £86. The bottle has been observed at auction across 55 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 £95, 24-month median £86 — 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 2000 2nd Release that hammers at £95 would cost the buyer approximately £120 all-in including buyer's premium.
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