latest hammer price
Auction lots
9
Houses
1
Last sold
193 days ago
Bowmore - 28 Year Old (1991) Scottish Folklore Series 5th Release is a collectable Scotch whisky from Bowmore aged 28 years. Based on 9 recorded auction lots across 8 months of trading data, the current median hammer price is £310, with the most recent sale at £270. Over the trading window, prices have ranged from £260 (low) to £520 (high). Accounting for lot-to-lot variation, a realistic valuation range for Bowmore - 28 Year Old (1991) Scottish Folklore Series 5th Release is £221–£319 (±18% around the latest sale).
Bowmore is a whisky distillery. Bowmore - 28 Year Old (1991) Scottish Folklore Series 5th Release is an age-stated bottling at 28 years old, distilled in 1991.
Single vintage
Distilled in a single year (1991), so the available batch is inherently finite.
Considerable age
A 28-year age statement reflects long maturation and the small surviving volume that implies — older stock is scarcer.
Named / limited release
Released as 5thfolklorescottishseries, 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
£270
24-month median
£310
24-month high
£520
24-month low
£260
Estimated value · likely range
£221–£319 ±18%
Auction hammers swing lot to lot with condition, fill level and timing. Treat this band — not a single figure — as the bottle's value.
Rare at auctiononly a handful of lots a year
Seen at auction
3 lots
Cadence
≈ every 122 days
Trend
▼ 25% vs prior year
Houses
1
Activity rank
top 28% of tracked bottles
Last seen
193 days ago
Across the auction houses wsky1 tracks.
| Month | Median | Lots |
|---|---|---|
| February 2026 | £270 | 2 |
| December 2025 | £300 | 1 |
| August 2025 | £270 | 1 |
| July 2025 | £320 | 1 |
| June 2025 | £260 | 1 |
| November 2024 | £360 | 1 |
| February 2023 | £520 | 1 |
| August 2022 | £450 | 1 |
Bowmore - 28 Year Old (1991) Scottish Folklore Series 5th Release appeared in 3 auction lots over the last 12 months across the auction houses wsky1 tracks — rare at auction (only a handful of lots a year). That is down 25% on the previous year. That puts it in the top 28% 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 - 28 Year Old (1991) Scottish Folklore Series 5th Release at auction is £270. Across the most recent 24 months of auction data, the median hammer price is £310, with a high of £520 and a low of £260. 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 - 28 Year Old (1991) Scottish Folklore Series 5th Release, so a year-on-year trend is not yet computed. Recent hammer prices range from £260 to £520 (median £310).
Bowmore - 28 Year Old (1991) Scottish Folklore Series 5th 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 £310 (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 - 28 Year Old (1991) Scottish Folklore Series 5th Release has appeared in 9 recorded auction lots in our database, with a current median hammer price of £310. 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 £270, 24-month median £310 — 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 - 28 Year Old (1991) Scottish Folklore Series 5th Release that hammers at £270 would cost the buyer approximately £340 all-in including buyer's premium.
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