Balvenie 12 Year Old American Oak Story #01 is a collectable Scotch whisky from Balvenie aged 12 years. Based on 65 recorded auction lots across 42 months of trading data, the current median hammer price is £45, with the most recent sale at £40. Over the trading window, prices have ranged from £31 (low) to £75 (high). Accounting for lot-to-lot variation, a realistic valuation range for Balvenie 12 Year Old American Oak Story #01 is £37–£43 (±8% around the latest sale).
Year-on-year, Balvenie 12 Year Old American Oak Story #01 is down 20%, with a 6-month trend of +0% (up). 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.
Balvenie is a whisky distillery. Balvenie 12 Year Old American Oak Story #01 is an age-stated bottling at 12 years old.
Single cask
A single-cask bottling (cask 01) comes from one strictly limited outturn rather than a large batch.
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
£40
24-month median
£45
24-month high
£75
24-month low
£31
Estimated value · likely range
£37–£43 ±8%
Auction hammers swing lot to lot with condition, fill level and timing. Treat this band — not a single figure — as the bottle's value.
| Month | Median | Lots |
|---|---|---|
| March 2026 | £40 | 1 |
| October 2025 | £40 | 1 |
| September 2025 | £40 | 1 |
| August 2025 | £45 | 1 |
| July 2025 | £31 | 4 |
| May 2025 | £40 | 1 |
| April 2025 | £40 | 3 |
| March 2025 | £45 | 1 |
| November 2024 | £55 | 1 |
| October 2024 | £40 | 1 |
| September 2024 | £40 | 1 |
| July 2024 | £40 | 2 |
The latest hammer price for Balvenie 12 Year Old American Oak Story #01 at auction is £40. Across the most recent 24 months of auction data, the median hammer price is £45, with a high of £75 and a low of £31. 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.
Balvenie 12 Year Old American Oak Story #01 is down 20% year-on-year based on monthly median hammer prices. Over the past 6 months it has moved up 0%. Past auction performance is not a guarantee of future value.
Balvenie 12 Year Old American Oak Story #01 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 £45 (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 Balvenie 12 Year Old American Oak Story #01 has moved down 20%, with a current median hammer price of £45. The bottle has been observed at auction across 65 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 £40, 24-month median £45 — 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 Balvenie 12 Year Old American Oak Story #01 that hammers at £40 would cost the buyer approximately £50 all-in including buyer's premium.
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