latest hammer price
Auction lots
8
Houses
1
Last sold
355 days ago
Balblair 2001 1st Release is a collectable Scotch whisky from Balblair, bottled in 2001. Based on 8 recorded auction lots across 8 months of trading data, the current median hammer price is £70, with the most recent sale at £80. Over the trading window, prices have ranged from £40 (low) to £100 (high). Accounting for lot-to-lot variation, a realistic valuation range for Balblair 2001 1st Release is £62–£98 (±22% around the latest sale).
Balblair is a whisky distillery. Balblair 2001 1st Release is a no-age-statement bottling, released in 2001.
Named / limited release
Released as Balblair 2001 1st 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
£80
24-month median
£70
24-month high
£100
24-month low
£40
Estimated value · likely range
£62–£98 ±22%
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
355 days ago
Across the auction houses wsky1 tracks.
| Month | Median | Lots |
|---|---|---|
| September 2025 | £80 | 1 |
| March 2024 | £45 | 1 |
| July 2023 | £75 | 1 |
| December 2022 | £70 | 1 |
| November 2019 | £70 | 1 |
| September 2018 | £40 | 1 |
| March 2018 | £100 | 1 |
| April 2014 | £45 | 1 |
Balblair 2001 1st 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 2001 1st Release at auction is £80. Across the most recent 24 months of auction data, the median hammer price is £70, with a high of £100 and a low of £40. 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 2001 1st Release, so a year-on-year trend is not yet computed. Recent hammer prices range from £40 to £100 (median £70).
Balblair 2001 1st 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 £70 (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 2001 1st Release has appeared in 8 recorded auction lots in our database, with a current median hammer price of £70. 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 £80, 24-month median £70 — 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 2001 1st Release that hammers at £80 would cost the buyer approximately £101 all-in including buyer's premium.
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