latest hammer price
Auction lots
9
Houses
1
Last sold
534 days ago
Balmenach 16 Year Old Forgotten Gems is a collectable Scotch whisky from Balmenach aged 16 years. Based on 9 recorded auction lots across 8 months of trading data, the current median hammer price is £125, with the most recent sale at £90. Over the trading window, prices have ranged from £90 (low) to £180 (high). Accounting for lot-to-lot variation, a realistic valuation range for Balmenach 16 Year Old Forgotten Gems is £74–£106 (±18% around the latest sale).
Balmenach is a whisky distillery. Balmenach 16 Year Old Forgotten Gems is an age-stated bottling at 16 years old.
Named / limited release
Released as Balmenach 16 Year Old Forgotten Gems, 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
£90
24-month median
£125
24-month high
£180
24-month low
£90
Estimated value · likely range
£74–£106 ±18%
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
0 lots
Last seen
534 days ago
Across the auction houses wsky1 tracks.
| Month | Median | Lots |
|---|---|---|
| May 2025 | £90 | 1 |
| January 2025 | £100 | 1 |
| July 2024 | £120 | 1 |
| June 2024 | £140 | 1 |
| August 2022 | £130 | 2 |
| October 2021 | £160 | 1 |
| May 2021 | £180 | 1 |
| April 2021 | £100 | 1 |
Balmenach 16 Year Old Forgotten Gems appeared in 0 auction lots over the last 12 months across the auction houses wsky1 tracks — hardly ever seen (almost never comes to market).
The latest hammer price for Balmenach 16 Year Old Forgotten Gems at auction is £90. Across the most recent 24 months of auction data, the median hammer price is £125, with a high of £180 and a low of £90. 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 Balmenach 16 Year Old Forgotten Gems, so a year-on-year trend is not yet computed. Recent hammer prices range from £90 to £180 (median £125).
Balmenach 16 Year Old Forgotten Gems 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 £125 (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%.
Balmenach 16 Year Old Forgotten Gems has appeared in 9 recorded auction lots in our database, with a current median hammer price of £125. 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 £90, 24-month median £125 — 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 Balmenach 16 Year Old Forgotten Gems that hammers at £90 would cost the buyer approximately £113 all-in including buyer's premium.
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