Balvenie 12 Year Old Single Barrel #18802 Special 2024 Employee Release is a collectable Scotch whisky from Balvenie aged 12 years. Based on 5 recorded auction lots across 4 months of trading data, the current median hammer price is £94, with the most recent sale at £90. Over the trading window, prices have ranged from £80 (low) to £170 (high). Accounting for lot-to-lot variation, a realistic valuation range for Balvenie 12 Year Old Single Barrel #18802 Special 2024 Employee Release is £77–£104 (±15% around the latest sale).
Balvenie is a whisky distillery. Balvenie 12 Year Old Single Barrel #18802 Special 2024 Employee Release is an age-stated bottling at 12 years old, distilled in 2024.
Single vintage
Distilled in a single year (2024), so the available batch is inherently finite.
Single cask
A single-cask bottling (cask 18802) 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
£90
24-month median
£94
24-month high
£170
24-month low
£80
Estimated value · likely range
£77–£104 ±15%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| January 2026 | £90 | 1 |
| December 2025 | £98 | 2 |
| August 2025 | £170 | 1 |
| May 2025 | £80 | 1 |
The latest hammer price for Balvenie 12 Year Old Single Barrel #18802 Special 2024 Employee Release at auction is £90. Across the most recent 24 months of auction data, the median hammer price is £94, with a high of £170 and a low of £80. 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 Balvenie 12 Year Old Single Barrel #18802 Special 2024 Employee Release, so a year-on-year trend is not yet computed. Recent hammer prices range from £80 to £170 (median £94).
Balvenie 12 Year Old Single Barrel #18802 Special 2024 Employee 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 £94 (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%.
Balvenie 12 Year Old Single Barrel #18802 Special 2024 Employee Release has appeared in 5 recorded auction lots in our database, with a current median hammer price of £94. 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 £94 — 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 Single Barrel #18802 Special 2024 Employee Release that hammers at £90 would cost the buyer approximately £113 all-in including buyer's premium.
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