latest hammer price · blended across 2 auction houses
Auction lots
27
Houses
2
Last sold
9 days ago
Bowmore 25 Year Old (Small Batch Release) is a collectable Scotch whisky from Bowmore aged 25 years. Based on 27 recorded auction lots across 22 months of trading data, the current median hammer price is £240, with the most recent sale at £190. Over the trading window, prices have ranged from £140 (low) to £290 (high). Accounting for lot-to-lot variation, a realistic valuation range for Bowmore 25 Year Old (Small Batch Release) is £170–£210 (±11% around the latest sale).
Year-on-year, Bowmore 25 Year Old (Small Batch Release) is down 26.9%, with a 6-month trend of +35.7% (up). 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 25 Year Old (Small Batch Release) is an age-stated bottling at 25 years old.
Considerable age
A 25-year age statement reflects long maturation and the small surviving volume that implies — older stock is scarcer.
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
£190
24-month median
£240
24-month high
£290
24-month low
£140
Estimated value · likely range
£170–£210 ±11%
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
43 lots
Cadence
≈ 4 per month
Trend
▲ 187% vs prior year
Houses
2
Activity rank
top 1% of tracked bottles
Last seen
9 days ago
Across the auction houses wsky1 tracks.
Seen at: Scotch Whisky Auctions · Whisky Hammer
Cross-house median
£220
Median hammer price blended across every recorded sale at all 2 auction houses below — a single figure that smooths house-to-house variation.
| Auction house | Price points | Latest hammer | Median |
|---|---|---|---|
| Scotch Whisky Auctions | 192 | £220 | £220 |
| Whisky Hammer | 27 | £190 | £220 |
| Month | Median | Lots |
|---|---|---|
| July 2026 | £190 | 1 |
| June 2026 | £180 | 1 |
| May 2026 | £180 | 3 |
| April 2026 | £160 | 3 |
| March 2026 | £210 | 1 |
| February 2026 | £220 | 2 |
| November 2025 | £140 | 1 |
| October 2025 | £220 | 1 |
| August 2025 | £250 | 1 |
| June 2025 | £260 | 1 |
| May 2025 | £240 | 1 |
| July 2024 | £220 | 1 |
More from Bowmore
Bowmore 25 Year Old (Small Batch Release) appeared in 43 auction lots over the last 12 months across the auction houses wsky1 tracks — regularly traded (several lots most weeks). That is up 187% on the previous year. It has traded at 2 different auction houses in that period. That puts it in the top 1% by auction activity among the 29,926 bottles wsky1 tracks — most collectable bottles hammer only a handful of times a year.
The latest hammer price for Bowmore 25 Year Old (Small Batch Release) at auction is £190. Across the most recent 24 months of auction data, the median hammer price is £240, with a high of £290 and a low of £140. 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 25 Year Old (Small Batch Release) is down 26.9% year-on-year based on monthly median hammer prices. Over the past 6 months it has moved up 35.7%. Past auction performance is not a guarantee of future value.
Bowmore 25 Year Old (Small Batch Release) 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 £240 (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 25 Year Old (Small Batch Release) has moved down 26.9%, with a current median hammer price of £240. The bottle has been observed at auction across 27 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 £190, 24-month median £240 — 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 25 Year Old (Small Batch Release) that hammers at £190 would cost the buyer approximately £239 all-in including buyer's premium.
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