latest hammer price
Auction lots
9
Houses
1
Last sold
172 days ago
Balvenie - 17 Year Old (Rum Cask) First Edition Release 2008 is a collectable Scotch whisky from Balvenie aged 17 years. Based on 9 recorded auction lots across 9 months of trading data, the current median hammer price is £280, with the most recent sale at £280. Over the trading window, prices have ranged from £230 (low) to £460 (high). Accounting for lot-to-lot variation, a realistic valuation range for Balvenie - 17 Year Old (Rum Cask) First Edition Release 2008 is £245–£315 (±13% around the latest sale).
Balvenie is a whisky distillery. Balvenie - 17 Year Old (Rum Cask) First Edition Release 2008 is an age-stated bottling at 17 years old, distilled in 2008.
Single vintage
Distilled in a single year (2008), so the available batch is inherently finite.
Named / limited release
Released as caskfirstrum, 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
£280
24-month median
£280
24-month high
£460
24-month low
£230
Estimated value · likely range
£245–£315 ±13%
Auction hammers swing lot to lot with condition, fill level and timing. Treat this band — not a single figure — as the bottle's value.
Rare at auctiononly a handful of lots a year
Seen at auction
2 lots
Cadence
≈ every 183 days
Houses
1
Activity rank
top 39% of tracked bottles
Last seen
172 days ago
Across the auction houses wsky1 tracks.
| Month | Median | Lots |
|---|---|---|
| March 2026 | £280 | 1 |
| January 2026 | £460 | 1 |
| September 2023 | £330 | 1 |
| April 2023 | £300 | 1 |
| December 2022 | £230 | 1 |
| July 2022 | £330 | 1 |
| May 2022 | £250 | 1 |
| April 2022 | £270 | 1 |
| January 2022 | £260 | 1 |
More from Balvenie
Balvenie - 17 Year Old (Rum Cask) First Edition Release 2008 appeared in 2 auction lots over the last 12 months across the auction houses wsky1 tracks — rare at auction (only a handful of lots a year). That puts it in the top 39% by auction activity among the 29,829 bottles wsky1 tracks — most collectable bottles hammer only a handful of times a year.
The latest hammer price for Balvenie - 17 Year Old (Rum Cask) First Edition Release 2008 at auction is £280. Across the most recent 24 months of auction data, the median hammer price is £280, with a high of £460 and a low of £230. 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 - 17 Year Old (Rum Cask) First Edition Release 2008, so a year-on-year trend is not yet computed. Recent hammer prices range from £230 to £460 (median £280).
Balvenie - 17 Year Old (Rum Cask) First Edition Release 2008 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 £280 (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 - 17 Year Old (Rum Cask) First Edition Release 2008 has appeared in 9 recorded auction lots in our database, with a current median hammer price of £280. 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 £280, 24-month median £280 — 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 - 17 Year Old (Rum Cask) First Edition Release 2008 that hammers at £280 would cost the buyer approximately £353 all-in including buyer's premium.
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