latest hammer price
Auction lots
12
Houses
1
Last sold
390 days ago
Bowmore 1972 27 Year Old is a collectable Scotch whisky from Bowmore aged 27 years. Based on 12 recorded auction lots across 11 months of trading data, the current median hammer price is £1,800, with the most recent sale at £1,500. Over the trading window, prices have ranged from £450 (low) to £2,200 (high). Accounting for lot-to-lot variation, a realistic valuation range for Bowmore 1972 27 Year Old is £1,129–£1,871 (±25% around the latest sale).
Bowmore is a whisky distillery. Bowmore 1972 27 Year Old is an age-stated bottling at 27 years old, distilled in 1972.
Single vintage
Distilled in a single year (1972), so the available batch is inherently finite.
Considerable age
A 27-year age statement reflects long maturation and the small surviving volume that implies — older stock is scarcer.
Named / limited release
Released as Bowmore 1972 27 Year Old, 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
£1,500
24-month median
£1,800
24-month high
£2,200
24-month low
£450
Estimated value · likely range
£1,129–£1,871 ±25%
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
390 days ago
Across the auction houses wsky1 tracks.
| Month | Median | Lots |
|---|---|---|
| August 2025 | £1,500 | 1 |
| March 2020 | £1,800 | 1 |
| February 2020 | £2,200 | 1 |
| December 2019 | £1,900 | 1 |
| May 2019 | £1,800 | 1 |
| July 2018 | £1,900 | 1 |
| June 2018 | £1,900 | 1 |
| December 2017 | £1,300 | 1 |
| June 2015 | £720 | 1 |
| May 2013 | £450 | 1 |
| March 2013 | £520 | 2 |
Bowmore 1972 27 Year Old 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 Bowmore 1972 27 Year Old at auction is £1,500. Across the most recent 24 months of auction data, the median hammer price is £1,800, with a high of £2,200 and a low of £450. 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 Bowmore 1972 27 Year Old, so a year-on-year trend is not yet computed. Recent hammer prices range from £450 to £2,200 (median £1,800).
Bowmore 1972 27 Year Old 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 £1,800 (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%.
Bowmore 1972 27 Year Old has appeared in 12 recorded auction lots in our database, with a current median hammer price of £1,800. 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 £1,500, 24-month median £1,800 — 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 Bowmore 1972 27 Year Old that hammers at £1,500 would cost the buyer approximately £1,890 all-in including buyer's premium.
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