latest hammer price
Auction lots
18
Houses
1
Last sold
102 days ago
Bowmore 30 Year Old 2020 Release (1989) is a collectable Scotch whisky from Bowmore aged 30 years, bottled in 2020. Based on 18 recorded auction lots across 16 months of trading data, the current median hammer price is £1,363, with the most recent sale at £720. Over the trading window, prices have ranged from £720 (low) to £2,400 (high). Accounting for lot-to-lot variation, a realistic valuation range for Bowmore 30 Year Old 2020 Release (1989) is £493–£947 (±31% around the latest sale).
Year-on-year, Bowmore 30 Year Old 2020 Release (1989) is down 61.6%, with a 6-month trend of -34.5% (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 30 Year Old (1989) 2020 Release is an age-stated bottling at 30 years old, distilled in 1989, released in 2020.
Single vintage
Distilled in a single year (1989), so the available batch is inherently finite.
Considerable age
A 30-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.
Latest sale
£720
24-month median
£1,363
24-month high
£2,400
24-month low
£720
Estimated value · likely range
£493–£947 ±31%
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
6 lots
Cadence
≈ every 61 days
Houses
1
Activity rank
top 14% of tracked bottles
Last seen
102 days ago
Across the auction houses wsky1 tracks.
| Month | Median | Lots |
|---|---|---|
| May 2026 | £720 | 3 |
| January 2026 | £1,000 | 1 |
| December 2025 | £780 | 1 |
| October 2025 | £1,050 | 1 |
| July 2025 | £920 | 1 |
| January 2025 | £880 | 1 |
| April 2024 | £1,100 | 1 |
| August 2023 | £1,225 | 1 |
| April 2023 | £1,500 | 1 |
| March 2023 | £1,600 | 1 |
| December 2022 | £1,500 | 1 |
| May 2022 | £1,925 | 1 |
Bowmore 30 Year Old 2020 Release (1989) appeared in 6 auction lots over the last 12 months across the auction houses wsky1 tracks — rare at auction (only a handful of lots a year). That puts it in the top 14% 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 30 Year Old 2020 Release (1989) at auction is £720. Across the most recent 24 months of auction data, the median hammer price is £1,363, with a high of £2,400 and a low of £720. 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 30 Year Old 2020 Release (1989) is down 61.6% year-on-year based on monthly median hammer prices. Over the past 6 months it has moved down 34.5%. Past auction performance is not a guarantee of future value.
Bowmore 30 Year Old 2020 Release (1989) 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 £1,363 (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 30 Year Old 2020 Release (1989) has moved down 61.6%, with a current median hammer price of £1,363. The bottle has been observed at auction across 18 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 £720, 24-month median £1,363 — 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 30 Year Old 2020 Release (1989) that hammers at £720 would cost the buyer approximately £907 all-in including buyer's premium.
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