latest hammer price
Auction lots
455
Houses
1
Last sold
8 days ago
Balvenie 21 Year Old The Second Red Rose Story #05 is a collectable Scotch whisky from Balvenie aged 21 years. Based on 455 recorded auction lots across 51 months of trading data, the current median hammer price is £297, with the most recent sale at £250. Over the trading window, prices have ranged from £210 (low) to £500 (high). Accounting for lot-to-lot variation, a realistic valuation range for Balvenie 21 Year Old The Second Red Rose Story #05 is £230–£270 (±8% around the latest sale).
Year-on-year, Balvenie 21 Year Old The Second Red Rose Story #05 is down 16.7%, with a 6-month trend of -9.6% (down). 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 21 Year Old The Second Red Rose Story #05 is an age-stated bottling at 21 years old.
Age statement
A 21-year age statement signals extended maturation, which limits how much was ever bottled.
Single cask
A single-cask bottling (cask 05) 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
£250
24-month median
£297
24-month high
£500
24-month low
£210
Estimated value · likely range
£230–£270 ±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.
Regularly tradedseveral lots most weeks
Seen at auction
35 lots
Cadence
≈ 3 per month
Trend
▼ 30% vs prior year
Houses
1
Activity rank
top 2% of tracked bottles
Last seen
8 days ago
Across the auction houses wsky1 tracks.
| Month | Median | Lots |
|---|---|---|
| August 2026 | £250 | 3 |
| July 2026 | £240 | 3 |
| May 2026 | £210 | 1 |
| February 2026 | £265 | 4 |
| January 2026 | £280 | 8 |
| December 2025 | £230 | 2 |
| November 2025 | £277 | 6 |
| September 2025 | £253 | 8 |
| August 2025 | £320 | 2 |
| July 2025 | £320 | 4 |
| May 2025 | £290 | 2 |
| April 2025 | £260 | 4 |
More from Balvenie
Balvenie 21 Year Old The Second Red Rose Story #05 appeared in 35 auction lots over the last 12 months across the auction houses wsky1 tracks — regularly traded (several lots most weeks). That is down 30% on the previous year. That puts it in the top 2% 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 21 Year Old The Second Red Rose Story #05 at auction is £250. Across the most recent 24 months of auction data, the median hammer price is £297, with a high of £500 and a low of £210. 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 21 Year Old The Second Red Rose Story #05 is down 16.7% year-on-year based on monthly median hammer prices. Over the past 6 months it has moved down 9.6%. Past auction performance is not a guarantee of future value.
Balvenie 21 Year Old The Second Red Rose Story #05 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 £297 (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 21 Year Old The Second Red Rose Story #05 has moved down 16.7%, with a current median hammer price of £297. The bottle has been observed at auction across 455 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 £250, 24-month median £297 — 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 21 Year Old The Second Red Rose Story #05 that hammers at £250 would cost the buyer approximately £315 all-in including buyer's premium.
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