Bowmore - 1985 Vintage (Feis Ile 2012) Commemorative Bottling Whisky Auction is a collectable Scotch whisky from Bowmore, bottled in 2012. Based on 3 recorded auction lots across 3 months of trading data, the current median hammer price is £840, with the most recent sale at £760. Over the trading window, prices have ranged from £760 (low) to £1,200 (high). Accounting for lot-to-lot variation, a realistic valuation range for Bowmore - 1985 Vintage (Feis Ile 2012) Commemorative Bottling Whisky Auction is £561–£959 (±26% around the latest sale).
Bowmore is a whisky distillery. Bowmore - 1985 Vintage (Feis Ile 2012) Commemorative Bottling Whisky Auction is a no-age-statement bottling, distilled in 1985, released in 2012.
Single vintage
Distilled in a single year (1985), so the available batch is inherently finite.
Named / limited release
Released as commemorativefeisile, 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
£760
24-month median
£840
24-month high
£1,200
24-month low
£760
Estimated value · likely range
£561–£959 ±26%
Auction hammers swing lot to lot with condition, fill level and timing. Treat this band — not a single figure — as the bottle's value.
| Month | Median | Lots |
|---|---|---|
| February 2026 | £760 | 1 |
| October 2022 | £1,200 | 1 |
| February 2022 | £840 | 1 |
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The latest hammer price for Bowmore - 1985 Vintage (Feis Ile 2012) Commemorative Bottling Whisky Auction at auction is £760. Across the most recent 24 months of auction data, the median hammer price is £840, with a high of £1,200 and a low of £760. 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 - 1985 Vintage (Feis Ile 2012) Commemorative Bottling Whisky Auction, so a year-on-year trend is not yet computed. Recent hammer prices range from £760 to £1,200 (median £840).
Bowmore - 1985 Vintage (Feis Ile 2012) Commemorative Bottling Whisky Auction 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 £840 (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 - 1985 Vintage (Feis Ile 2012) Commemorative Bottling Whisky Auction has appeared in 3 recorded auction lots in our database, with a current median hammer price of £840. 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 £760, 24-month median £840 — 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 - 1985 Vintage (Feis Ile 2012) Commemorative Bottling Whisky Auction that hammers at £760 would cost the buyer approximately £958 all-in including buyer's premium.
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