latest hammer price
Auction lots
49
Houses
1
Last sold
354 days ago
Bowmore 1991 16 Year Old Port Cask is a collectable Scotch whisky from Bowmore aged 16 years. Based on 49 recorded auction lots across 43 months of trading data, the current median hammer price is £220, with the most recent sale at £210. Over the trading window, prices have ranged from £100 (low) to £380 (high). Accounting for lot-to-lot variation, a realistic valuation range for Bowmore 1991 16 Year Old Port Cask is £166–£254 (±21% around the latest sale).
Year-on-year, Bowmore 1991 16 Year Old Port Cask is down 34.4%, with a 6-month trend of -30% (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.
Bowmore is a whisky distillery. Bowmore 1991 16 Year Old Port Cask is an age-stated bottling at 16 years old, distilled in 1991.
Single vintage
Distilled in a single year (1991), so the available batch is inherently finite.
Named / limited release
Released as Bowmore 1991 16 Year Old Port Cask, 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
£210
24-month median
£220
24-month high
£380
24-month low
£100
Estimated value · likely range
£166–£254 ±21%
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 98% of tracked bottles
Last seen
354 days ago
Across the auction houses wsky1 tracks.
| Month | Median | Lots |
|---|---|---|
| September 2025 | £210 | 1 |
| October 2024 | £250 | 1 |
| September 2024 | £270 | 1 |
| August 2024 | £300 | 1 |
| April 2024 | £255 | 2 |
| October 2023 | £290 | 1 |
| August 2023 | £300 | 1 |
| June 2023 | £270 | 1 |
| May 2023 | £300 | 1 |
| December 2022 | £270 | 1 |
| June 2022 | £280 | 1 |
| November 2021 | £290 | 1 |
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Bowmore 1991 16 Year Old Port Cask 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 98% 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 Bowmore 1991 16 Year Old Port Cask at auction is £210. Across the most recent 24 months of auction data, the median hammer price is £220, with a high of £380 and a low of £100. 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.
Bowmore 1991 16 Year Old Port Cask is down 34.4% year-on-year based on monthly median hammer prices. Over the past 6 months it has moved down 30%. Past auction performance is not a guarantee of future value.
Bowmore 1991 16 Year Old Port Cask 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 £220 (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 Bowmore 1991 16 Year Old Port Cask has moved down 34.4%, with a current median hammer price of £220. The bottle has been observed at auction across 49 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 £210, 24-month median £220 — 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 1991 16 Year Old Port Cask that hammers at £210 would cost the buyer approximately £265 all-in including buyer's premium.
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