latest hammer price
Auction lots
17
Houses
1
Last sold
427 days ago
BenRiach 12 Year Old Heredotus Fumosus is a collectable Scotch whisky from Benriach aged 12 years. Based on 17 recorded auction lots across 15 months of trading data, the current median hammer price is £63, with the most recent sale at £55. Over the trading window, prices have ranged from £50 (low) to £85 (high). Accounting for lot-to-lot variation, a realistic valuation range for BenRiach 12 Year Old Heredotus Fumosus is £48–£62 (±12% around the latest sale).
Year-on-year, BenRiach 12 Year Old Heredotus Fumosus is down 8.3%, with a 6-month trend of -31.2% (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.
Benriach is a whisky distillery. Benriach 12 Year Old Heredotus Fumosus is an age-stated bottling at 12 years old.
Named / limited release
Released as BenRiach 12 Year Old Heredotus Fumosus, 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
£55
24-month median
£63
24-month high
£85
24-month low
£50
Estimated value · likely range
£48–£62 ±12%
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
427 days ago
Across the auction houses wsky1 tracks.
| Month | Median | Lots |
|---|---|---|
| July 2025 | £55 | 1 |
| April 2024 | £75 | 1 |
| January 2021 | £85 | 1 |
| December 2020 | £63 | 2 |
| November 2019 | £75 | 1 |
| October 2019 | £65 | 1 |
| July 2019 | £80 | 1 |
| March 2019 | £63 | 2 |
| December 2018 | £50 | 1 |
| October 2018 | £60 | 1 |
| September 2018 | £65 | 1 |
| September 2017 | £60 | 1 |
BenRiach 12 Year Old Heredotus Fumosus 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 BenRiach 12 Year Old Heredotus Fumosus at auction is £55. Across the most recent 24 months of auction data, the median hammer price is £63, with a high of £85 and a low of £50. 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.
BenRiach 12 Year Old Heredotus Fumosus is down 8.3% year-on-year based on monthly median hammer prices. Over the past 6 months it has moved down 31.2%. Past auction performance is not a guarantee of future value.
BenRiach 12 Year Old Heredotus Fumosus 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 £63 (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 BenRiach 12 Year Old Heredotus Fumosus has moved down 8.3%, with a current median hammer price of £63. The bottle has been observed at auction across 17 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 £55, 24-month median £63 — 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 BenRiach 12 Year Old Heredotus Fumosus that hammers at £55 would cost the buyer approximately £69 all-in including buyer's premium.
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