latest hammer price · blended across 3 auction houses
Auction lots
1,042
Houses
3
Last sold
8 days ago
Bowmore - 20 Year Old (David Simson Distillery Exclusive) is a collectable Scotch whisky from Bowmore aged 20 years. Based on 1042 recorded auction lots across 65 months of trading data, the current median hammer price is £260, with the most recent sale at £245. Over the trading window, prices have ranged from £231 (low) to £325 (high). Accounting for lot-to-lot variation, a realistic valuation range for Bowmore - 20 Year Old (David Simson Distillery Exclusive) is £225–£265 (±8% around the latest sale).
Year-on-year, Bowmore - 20 Year Old (David Simson Distillery Exclusive) is down 9.3%, with a 6-month trend of -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.
Bowmore is a whisky distillery. Bowmore - 20 Year Old (David Simson Distillery Exclusive) is an age-stated bottling at 20 years old.
Age statement
A 20-year age statement signals extended maturation, which limits how much was ever bottled.
Named / limited release
Released as davidexclusivesimson, 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.
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Latest sale
£245
24-month median
£260
24-month high
£325
24-month low
£231
Estimated value · likely range
£225–£265 ±8%
Auction hammers swing lot to lot with condition, fill level and timing. Treat this band — not a single figure — as the bottle's value.
Regularly tradedseveral lots most weeks
Seen at auction
55 lots
Cadence
≈ 1 per week
Trend
▼ 11% vs prior year
Houses
3
Activity rank
top 1% of tracked bottles
Last seen
8 days ago
Across the auction houses wsky1 tracks.
Seen at: Scotch Whisky Auctions · Whisky Hammer · whisky.auction
Cross-house median
£260
Median hammer price blended across every recorded sale at all 3 auction houses below — a single figure that smooths house-to-house variation.
| Auction house | Price points | Latest hammer | Median |
|---|---|---|---|
| Scotch Whisky Auctions | 123 | £240 | £261 |
| Whisky Hammer | 41 | £240 | £260 |
| whisky.auction | 1 | £230 | £230 |
| Month | Median | Lots |
|---|---|---|
| August 2026 | £245 | 2 |
| July 2026 | £240 | 4 |
| June 2026 | £280 | 2 |
| April 2026 | £255 | 3 |
| March 2026 | £250 | 8 |
| February 2026 | £250 | 7 |
| January 2026 | £250 | 1 |
| December 2025 | £231 | 14 |
| November 2025 | £235 | 9 |
| September 2025 | £250 | 5 |
| August 2025 | £240 | 7 |
| July 2025 | £255 | 5 |
More from Bowmore
Bowmore - 20 Year Old (David Simson Distillery Exclusive) appeared in 55 auction lots over the last 12 months across the auction houses wsky1 tracks — regularly traded (several lots most weeks). That is down 11% on the previous year. It has traded at 3 different auction houses in that period. That puts it in the top 1% 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 - 20 Year Old (David Simson Distillery Exclusive) at auction is £245. Across the most recent 24 months of auction data, the median hammer price is £260, with a high of £325 and a low of £231. 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 - 20 Year Old (David Simson Distillery Exclusive) is down 9.3% year-on-year based on monthly median hammer prices. Over the past 6 months it has moved down 2%. Past auction performance is not a guarantee of future value.
Bowmore - 20 Year Old (David Simson Distillery Exclusive) 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 £260 (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 - 20 Year Old (David Simson Distillery Exclusive) has moved down 9.3%, with a current median hammer price of £260. The bottle has been observed at auction across 1042 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 £245, 24-month median £260 — 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 - 20 Year Old (David Simson Distillery Exclusive) that hammers at £245 would cost the buyer approximately £309 all-in including buyer's premium.
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