latest hammer price
Auction lots
10
Houses
1
Last sold
44 days ago
Benrinnes 1997 16 Year Old Hart Brothers is a collectable Scotch whisky from Benrinnes aged 16 years. Based on 10 recorded auction lots across 9 months of trading data, the current median hammer price is £55, with the most recent sale at £60. Over the trading window, prices have ranged from £45 (low) to £60 (high). Accounting for lot-to-lot variation, a realistic valuation range for Benrinnes 1997 16 Year Old Hart Brothers is £55–£65 (±9% around the latest sale).
Benrinnes is a whisky distillery. Benrinnes 1997 16 Year Old Hart Brothers is an age-stated bottling at 16 years old, distilled in 1997.
Single vintage
Distilled in a single year (1997), so the available batch is inherently finite.
Named / limited release
Released as Benrinnes 1997 16 Year Old Hart Brothers, 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
£60
24-month median
£55
24-month high
£60
24-month low
£45
Estimated value · likely range
£55–£65 ±9%
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
1 lot
Houses
1
Activity rank
top 92% of tracked bottles
Last seen
44 days ago
Across the auction houses wsky1 tracks.
| Month | Median | Lots |
|---|---|---|
| September 2026 | £60 | 1 |
| June 2023 | £55 | 1 |
| December 2022 | £45 | 1 |
| November 2022 | £55 | 1 |
| April 2021 | £55 | 2 |
| March 2021 | £50 | 1 |
| February 2021 | £60 | 1 |
| January 2021 | £50 | 1 |
| December 2020 | £60 | 1 |
Benrinnes 1997 16 Year Old Hart Brothers appeared in 1 auction lot over the last 12 months across the auction houses wsky1 tracks — hardly ever seen (almost never comes to market). That puts it in the top 92% by auction activity among the 35,289 bottles wsky1 tracks — most collectable bottles hammer only a handful of times a year.
The latest hammer price for Benrinnes 1997 16 Year Old Hart Brothers at auction is £60. Across the most recent 24 months of auction data, the median hammer price is £55, with a high of £60 and a low of £45. 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 Benrinnes 1997 16 Year Old Hart Brothers, so a year-on-year trend is not yet computed. Recent hammer prices range from £45 to £60 (median £55).
Benrinnes 1997 16 Year Old Hart Brothers 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 £55 (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%.
Benrinnes 1997 16 Year Old Hart Brothers has appeared in 10 recorded auction lots in our database, with a current median hammer price of £55. 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 £60, 24-month median £55 — 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 Benrinnes 1997 16 Year Old Hart Brothers that hammers at £60 would cost the buyer approximately £76 all-in including buyer's premium.
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